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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4421, 8 June 1909, Page 4

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BTuk New Zealand Loan and Mercantile [Agency Con puny’s weekly report, dated [June 2,1 909 : E Horses : On Friday, at the Durham [Yards, Ji'-rsc* were yarded in .more than [average numbers. Heavy' draughts sold [at from £’2l to £3B ; medium do., £l7 [lo< to £23; hacks and light harness [horses, £7 or to £l2 10s ; ponies. £2 K s [to £5 10s ; spring*cart, £l2 ; gig, £1 () - [;! We hld a special sale of horses at pPapakut' i <ll Wednesday, when moie [than the advertised number came foiwaid [ Ho'ses of all classes were ivante't and [fold under keen competition Heavy [draughts sold at from £22 to £3O 10s ; ’medium do, £l9 10s to £2(5; aged [ draughts, £lO to £l7 10s; light harness do , £lO to £l6 os ; hacks and cobs, £5 L£ssto £ls; foals, £3 10s to £lO 10s; [gig, p On Thursday we held a clearing rale of [dairy cows, etc., on account of Messis b'W. Waiters and Lowe at Aka Aka, [ Waiukii. Therq was a large attendance | and very satisfactory' prices ruled. Dairv I cows, to calve in spring, sold at from £4 os to £9; heifers, £5 to £8 ; empty do., I £2 os to £3 2s 6d

If At Clovedou on Saturday there was a small yarding of stock, which sold at /late values. iDairycows sold at from [ ; £3 108 to £5 15s ; heifers, £2 15s to £4 Elds; empty cows, £2 2s to £3 2s 6d ; b°ct* at Newmarket rates. Sheep : pW*ther«, 13s 3d; ewes, 7s 9d tolls; lambs, 7s 6d to "s 9d. • Cattle: At the Newmarket Yards on

there was a moderate number p of dairy and store stock yarded and a full p “upply of beef. Dairy cows sold at from . £3 os to £6 7s 6d ; empty cows, £1 17s to £2 12s ; calves, 15sto£! 19s. Beef in full numb°rs, the quality not being equal <: to hut week, sold at la9t week’s rates. ?| .Oxen sold to 21s per 1001 b and cows from 178 to 19s. Steers, £5 10s to £9 15s; cows, £3 10s to £7, Sheep : Sheep were yarded in larger than usual numbers, and first-quality & sheep advanced in prices. Wethers sold at from 12s to 18s Gd ; ewes, 9s 9d to 14s 9d ; hoggets, 7s Gd to 14s ; lambs, 8s 5d to 13s fid.

Pigs : .Porkers sold at from 15s Gd to £1 $s ; weaners, Gs Gd to 10s 9d; biconers, £ 2 2s to £3 Gs. Northern sales : Arapohne there was a small yardiilg of stock, wh'ch sold under late rates. At Maungaturoto there was an average y'arding and stock were in better demand. At Kaiwaka there was a fair yarding of stock, and at Warkworth there was an average y arding of cattle and sheep. We quote for these sales : Grown steers, fresh and forward condition, £5 12s Gd to £6 ; two to three-year-old do., £3 5s to £5; eighteen months to two-year-olds, £2 to £3 3s Gd ; dairy cows, £3 l()s to £6; heifers, £1 10st">£3 2s (sli Sheep : Fat wethers, 10s 9d to 13s Gd ; ewes, 9s to 12s ; fat lambs, 5s 9d to 8e 6.1; store do.. 3s to 5s 3d. We submitted and s < Id average catalogues of hides, skins, and tallow on Tuesday. / Sheepskins : Market brisk, with keen competition. Best butchers’ skins, 4s to 4s Gd ; good, 3s Gd to 3s lOd ; small, 2s Gd to 3s.

i Tallow: Market easier. .Best mixed, to 22s Gd ; good, 20s to 21s 3d ; inferior 17s Gd to 18s Gd ; rough fat, 1£ to per lb.

Bones, £4 15s. Cowtails. Is 8d per doZ"ii. Horsehair. Is 3d to Is Gdjd. Wheat : The market is firm at 4s 7d to 4s 3d.

Oats : In good demand at 2s 3d ex store. i

CHaff : Chaff is, worth £3 1 Os'to £3 13s Gd at rail.

Bran and pollard : In good demand at £5 10s and £6 10s respectively. Barley : Barley at 2s f d ex store meets with a ie*dv sale.

Potatoes \ Market very fir mat £5 10s for Southern ex store.

Onions ore firm at 7s per cwt. Butter : Selling freely. Choice frriner®’ separator is worth 10.1 per lb :

first grade, 94d to ; second grade, % B\d to 9]d.

Cheese : The demand is improi ing. Factory, 54'd for medium ; farmers', 5d for small. /

Eggs are worth Is 9d per d z n n for fresh Fungus is soiling at sd.