COMMERCIAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43381, 3 October 1908, Page 3

COMMERCIAL

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company’s Limited weekly report:— Horses : At the Durham Yards on Friday horses were yarded in scarcely average numbers. Heavy draughts sold ftt from £26 to £3l 10s; medium do., £l6 15s to £26 17s 8d; hacks and light harness horses, £5 10s to £ls ; weeds, £2 10s to £5 ss; Courtland waggon, £3O.

Cattle : At the Newmarket Yards on Tuesday dairy and store stock were yarded >n usual numbers, with a full supply of beef. Dairy cows sold at from £4 10s to £lO ss; empty cows, £2 7s to £3 12s; calves, to £1 10s. Bidding for beef was scarcely up to the previous week, although quotations are the same. Oxen sold to 24s per 1001 b and cows to 23s per 1001 b. Steers sold at from £6 10s to £l4 7s 6d; cows, £4 10s to £8 17s 6d.

Sheep were yarded in full quantities and sold at scarcely last week’s rates, wethers realising from 15s 9d to £1 3s; ewes, 14s 9d to £1 ; hoggets, 13s to 19s ; lambs, 12s to 17s. The advertised store hoggets sold at from 9s 3d to 13s 9d; shorn wethers, 13s 6d to 17s 6d ; do , ewes, 12s to 13s 6d ; do., hoggets, to 12s 9d.

Pigs : Porkers realised £1 Is 6d to £1 18s 6d ; weaners, 5s 6d to 15s ; baconers, £2 2s to £3 6s.

We submitted and sold an average catalogue of hides, skins, and tallow on Tuesday. Bones, £4 15s. Cowtails, Is 8d dozen. Horsehair, Is to Is 4d. Wheat: The market has advanced in the South and wheat is firm at 4s lid to 5s ex store.

Oats are in good demand at 2s 6d to 2s 7d ex store.

Maize: Stocks are light and the market is firm. Butter : The market has eased. Best separator is worth lid and second grade 10£d. 6

Cheese: The market is bare and nominal. Value of farmers’ best is 6d.

Fungus is worth 4|d. We sold by auction a small property at < Alferston on Friday, consisting of 24* acres and buildings, for £660.