AUCKLAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1916, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report as follows:—' At the Westfield store sale last Thursday best cows and heifers sold at £0 15s to £)0 ]ss; others, £4 10s to £0 ss; aged and inferior cows, £2 5s to £3 17s (id; empty eows, £5 10s to £7 ss; calves, £1 8s to £2 (is; bulls, £5 103 to £lO 10s. At Albert Yards on . Friday heavy draughts brought £23 to £3 710s; medium, £l9 5s to £3O 10s; hacks, £8 ]os to £l7 10s; light harness horses, £lO to £lB ss; weeds, 10s to 50s; harness at late rates. On Mondfty at Henderson, dairy cows and heifers brought £5 to £0 10s; empty cows, £5 5s to £7 6s; aged and inferior cows, £1 15s to £3 17s (id; bulls, £0 to £8 10s; yearling to 18months heifers, £2 5s to £4 ss; calves, £1 4s to £2 Is. At Pukekohe on Tuesday, dairy cowa and heifers, best, xl 15s to £il 15s; others, £5 5s to £7; bulls, in largo supply, £5 10s to £11; 3 to 32-year-old steers, £9 17s 6d to £l2 18s; 2 to 2|-year steers, £6 17s to £8 lis; yearling to 18-months steers, £4 4s to £5 9s; calves, best, £2 4s to £2 14s; others, £1 5s to £1 18s; yearling <« 18-months heifers, £2 5s to £4 15s, according to quality; empty cows, £5 10s to £7 12s Od; beef at fully Westfield prices.

At the Westfield fat stock market on Wednesday, oxen sold to £2 4 s per 1001b; cows and heifers, £1 los to £2 2s; steers sold at from £l2 10s to £l9 2s (id; cows, £5 103 to £l3 12s Od. Some of the averages were: R. Clarke, Karaka, 20 steers, 17 10s: W. Henry, 10 steers, £lO 13s 0d; R. and W. Gollan, 20 small well-fatted steers, £l6 Is; W. Cray, Cambridge, 8 steers, £lO 10a. Calves were penned in large numbers and sold at higher rates. Runners, £0 to £8 10s; heavy suckers, £3 10s to £4 15s; medium suckers, £2 15s to £3 7s; light suckers, £1 3s to £2 9s; small fresh-dropped, 5s to 18s. Sheep were penned in full numbers and sold at late rates. Best wethers sold at from 1 5s 3d to £1 10s; others, £1 2s to £1 4s Od; ewes, lfls Cd to £1 Cs 3d; hoggets, 16s Od to £1 2s; lambs, in average supply, sold at from 17s Gil to £1 4s for best; others, 12s Od to 10s 9d. Pigs were penned in large numbers and sold at last week's high prices. Choppers, very few yarded and are wanted, sold up to £5 7s Od; heavy baconers, £4 Is to £4 16a; medium baconers, £3 12s to £4; light baconers, £3 5s to £3 10s; heavy porkers, £2 lfls to £3 4s; medium porkers, £2 11a to £2 15s; light do., £2 Is to £2 its; slips, £1 4s to 31s; weaners, 14s to 19s fid.

HIDE, SKIN AND TALLOW MARKET. We submitted and sold extra large eatalouges of hides, skins and tallow, on Tuesday: Hides: Market firmer. Wc quote extra stout ox IOJd to 10'/»d, stout ox 9ijd to IOJd, medium ox 9Jd to fljjd, light ox Od to Ojjd; cows, bo- 1 - lines to 9|d, good 84d to BJd, inferior 7Jd to 3d; kips, 8d to Bjjd; calfskins, besiti to IOJd, good B}d to !)Jd, cut and damaged 5Jd to 7d. Sheepskins: Market firm. Best butchers' skins, picked to 12s Od, good lines 10s to lis Od, medium 6s Cd to Ss 3d, small 4s to 5s 3d; latnbs' and pelts, 2s 3d to 29 lid; country dry woolly skins, best lines to !)Jd per lb, good 8d to B£d, damaged 2Jd to fid. Tallow: Market firmer. Best mixed to 30s, good 24s (Id to 27s Cd, inferior 20s to 23s Od; rough fat, lJd to 2d per lb. Bones, £5 per ton. Cowtails, Is doz; horsehair, Is 3d to Is 7Jd. Wool, in dumps and bags: Selling freely. Bright crossbred to 14d, coarse and inferior 9Jd to flijd; lambs' wool 10M to 12d, seedy Bid .to 7}d; locks and pieces, 3Jd to fijd; bellies, 7d to BJd.

ADDIXGTOX. Fat cattle declined about 3s per 1001b, fat lambs sold at last week's rai.es, store sheep were rather easier, and fat sheep declined about Is per head. Store sheep—Good forward lambs 13s to 14s Bd, fairly good lambs 0s (id to 9s Bd, cull lambs 2s 7<l to 03 lOd, forward 4-tooth wethers 14s Od to 15s Od, good 2-tooth wetliers 15s 7d, 2 and 4-tooth ewes 14s Od to 16s 2d, soundmouthed ewes 12s Od to 14s Id, aged ewes 3s to 3s Od, kound-mouthed merino ewes 4s Gd to 5s lOd. Fat lambs—3l7l were yarded. Prime lambs 20s to 22s Gd, medium l'ss to 10s Od, lighter 12i to 14s Gd. Fat sheep—Prime wethers 22s to 2Ss 3d, others 15s to 21s Gd, extra prime ewes to 2Ss, prime ewes 21s Gd to 20 s, medium ewes 10s Od to 2.1 s, lighter 13s to lGs, hoggets 17s Od to 19s 9d. Fat cattle —Extra prime steers to£l9, ordinary steers £7 17s Od to £l2, extra prime heifers to £lO 17s Gd, ordinary heifers £5 15s to £B, extra prime cows to £l3, ordinary cows £5 10s to £!) (price of beef per 1001b, 30s to 475, extra to 525). Store cattle—ls to 18-month sorts £2 5s to £2 14s, 2-year steers £2 15s to £4 Is, 2-year heifers £3 10s, 2'/«-year steers £4 17s Gd, 3-vear steers £8 2s fid to £l2 12s, 3-year iieifers £5, dry cows £2 to £5 17s Gd. Dairy cows, £3 to £ll. Pigs—Choppers 50s to 02s, extra heavy baooners to 02s, heavy baeoners 70s to 80s, light ba,oners 55s to 07s Gd (price per lb, Od). Heavy porkers 3Ss to 455, light porkers 33s to 46s (price per 11>, light fid. heavy sd). Medium stores 22s to SI", -mailer 10s to 21s, weauers 2= to 9<.

WRNSIDE. Values 011 the whole were slightly better than last week. Prime bullocks £lli to V!I ss. medium £l2 10s to Cl-1 Ills, inferior £lO 10s to £l2. prime heifers and 1 own 1:12 10s to €l4 10s, extra to £lB, medium £lO to £ll 10s, inferior £8 to £9. Store cattle—Bullocks to £9 7s. steers to £7 3s, cows to £9 17s Od, heifers to £4, calves to £2 l'ss. Fat sheep—l9l4 penned, chiefly medium to good wethers and ewes, with a few pens of extra pood sheep. I'rices were much the same as last week, but eased a little at tile close. iPrime wethers 22s to 28s 9d. extra to 355, medium 19s (id to 21s fid. inferior 10s I.:) 19s Gd, prime ewes 22s to 21s Od, extra to 30s, medium 19s Gd to 21s Gd, inferior 14s to 15s Gd. Fat lambs—7S2 penned: of f-iii quality. Compettion was not -.0 '.'risk <i« last week, and prices eased Is to Is 0d a head. Prime made 19s to 22s f!d, medium 15s to Ids Gd, inferior I2j lie! to 14s Gd. Fat pigs made up to £1 12

JOIIN'SO.YYILT.K At Johiisonville a fair entry of prime sheep and bulloiks came forward and sold at late rata?. 'Prime heavy bullocks £lB, prime bullocks .€lB to £l7, light bullocks £l4 5s to £l4 13s, vealers 23s to 30s, prime wethers 20s Is. prime heavy ewes 24-s to 24s lOd, light ewes 20s Gd to 21s, prime heavy lambs 20s 2d, prime lambs 17s Cd to P 4 l'-M lambs 10s,