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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43351, 18 July 1908, Page 2

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New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., weekly report : .y Horses : At the Durham Yards on - Friday horses were brought forward in average numbers and sold under steady. competition. Heavy draughts sold at from £2B 10s to £3B 10s ; medium do., £2O to £2B; hacks and light harness horses, £6 7s 6dto £2O ; spring-cart, £12 1;--sulky, £ll 10s. • At Pukekohe on Saturday we held a \ clearance sale of live and dead stock oil '; account of Mr S. Salisbury.’ There was a.; large attendance and good prices ruled. Cows sold at from £4 10s to £9 10s ; heifers, £2 5s to £4 5s ; horses, £l6 10s to £3O ; unbroken horses, £6 to £ls 10s ; pig, £2 17s 6d; buggy, £9 ; drill, £lB ; mower, £6; fowls, 2s 3d to 3s each ; geese, 6s 6d each ; ducks, 3s each, N Cattle : At the Newmarket Yards on Tuesday there was an average muster of dairy and store stock and a full of beef. Dairy cows sold at £3 5s to £7 los ; heifers, £2 12s 6d to £5 15s; empty do., £1 ISs to £3 sa; calves, 13s to £1 18s. Beef showed a slight improvement on last week’s rates, oxen selling up to 23s per 1001 b. Steers sold at £6 15s to £ll 7s 6d ; cows, £3 15s to £7 ss. Sheep were yarded in scarcely average numbers, and showed no improvement in price.* Wethers sold from 14s 3d'to.£l 2s ’6d ; ewes, 8s to 19s ; hoggets, 9s to los 9d. Pigs: Porkers realised £1 Is to £1 17s; V’caners, 5s 6d to 10s Gd; baconers, £2 Gs to £3 Is. We submitted a large catalogue of hides, skins, and tallow on Tuesday, all. lines meeting with good competition at late rates. # i Sheepskins: Market brisk. Best butchers’ skins, large to 3s, goodjlifies 2s 8d to 2s lOd, medium, 2s to 2s 2d, small, Is 6d to Is 9d. . . Tallow: Market firm. Best mixed, to 235; good, 21s to 225; inferior, 16s 6d to 18s 6d. Rough fat, ljd to ljd per lb«. Cowstails, Is 8d per dozen. Bones, £4 los. Horsehair, Is to Is 4d per lb. Wheat is slow of sale at os Id ex store. Oats are moving off slowly at 2s lid to 3s ex store.

Maize is in good demand at 4s 9d to 4 b lOd on wharf. Butter: Supplies are very small and the market has advanced. Choice farmers’ separator is worth 11-Jd ; good quality, lOd to IO.Jd ; second grade, 9Jd. Cheese : Farmers’ is slow of sale at 4d * to od.

Fungus is worth od