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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43348, 11 July 1908, Page 3

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flip: ■ . ' • JNkw Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company’s, Ltd., weekly raport * • ; Horses : At- the Durham Yards on ..Friday horses were yarded in average numbers. Heavy draughts realised from ’ £2B to £B9 10s ; medium, £lB to £27 ss; , hacks and light harness horses, £6 10s to -• £l?,10s ; spiing-cart. £ls. At Papakura on Wednesday there was & good muster for a winter sale, esneciallv

Sri of dairy cows, which sold at from £3 17s to £7 12s 6d ; heifers, £3 to £6 5s 1 ; backward springers. £2 2s 6d to £4 7s 7 ; fety cows, £2'2s 6d to £3 17s 6d; ••••; ‘’cis,.£s 15s to £7 10s; two to M‘do,, £2’ 15s to £5 ss; - •= ceis, £1 16s to £2 11s ; calves, >.'VU'?-'' - • »bs. 1 Beef sold at Newnlarket , ' ’ rates. - , . . . , Cattle : -At the Newmarket Yards on Tuesday there was an average yarding oi beef. Dairy cows, sold at from £3 10s to £7; heifers, £3 2s (id to £6 7s Gd ; empty do., £2 to £3 7s 6d ; calves, 12s to £1 . 19s. Beef sold under steady , J,-competition at last week’s , rates. Oxen up to‘2ls per lOOlb and cows 18s to 20s per 1001 b. Steers sold at £6 . , to £9 17s 6d ; cows, £3 10s to £7 12s Gd. No heavy weights Were yarded. Sheep ; Were again yhrded in full numbers and .showed a slight improvement on lust week’s prices. Wethers realised from 9s 6d to 19s 9d; ewes, 8s to 17s 6d; hoggets, 7s to 12s Gd. ‘ __ We submitted a large catalogue of hides, skins, and tallow on Tuesday. ; Sheepskins: sMarket firm. Best butchers’ skins, large 2s 6d to 2s 9d, good dines 2s 3d to 2s 4d, medium, Is 9d , to;2s, small Is sd-t6'ls 7d. • • . ’

Tallow: Market firm. Best mixed, up to 22s ; good, 19s to 20s 6d ; inferior, t; ifis. to 17s 6d ; rough fat, 1-ld per lb. Bones, £4 15s. l ' : : ■ rCbwtails, Is 8d per dozen. ■K. --Horsehair, lpdto Is 2d. Wheat: Market ;is • firm at 5s 2d ex store. Maize is in good demand at 4s 9d ex store. The market is cleared of ' . stocks. t 'Pate are selling slowly at'2s lid to 3s ;©x store. is firmer. Choice separator, lld£ good quality, lOld; medium,

3d'J!'* Cheese : Farmsrs is slow of sale at4d " to 6£d. - , -v ■ fungus ia worth sd.