COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 June 1916, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

AUCKLAND. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report:— At Westfield stock sale last Thursday, best dairy cows and heifers brought £lO to £ls 10s, others £0 15s to ".£0 10s, aged and inferior cows £4 to £O. Store cattle, in average numbers, sold at hig'n prices. Empty cows £5 5s to £7 108, two-year steers £7 2s Cd, heifer calves •tl 15s to £2 15s, steer calves £2 10s to £3 10s. On Friday, at Albert yards, horses were yarded iu average numbers, and sold at late prices. Heavy draughts £25 to :CH(i, medium draughts £lB 10s to £27 10s, light harness horses £S 10» to £1(1, hacks £0 10s to £l2 10s, ponies £4- to £S. ■At Papakura on Friday ive held a special dairy sale. Host dairy cows and heifers £lO to £lO 10s, others £7 to £!> 10s, aged and inferior cows £4 10s to £6 10s. On Tuesday at Papakura store sale, prices advanced considerably. Yearling to IS-month steers, £4 17s fld to £G 17s Gd, heifers, same age, £4 to £5 10a, empty cows £5 10s to £7 15s, best steer calves £3 13a to £4 10s, others £2 15s to £3 12s (id, best heifer calves £3 5? to £3 17s Od, others £2 5s to £3 2s (id. ' At Westfield fat stock market beef was penned in large numbers. Best oxen sold to £2 0s fid per 1001b, others £2 2s fid to £2 5s Od, cows and heifers £2 to £2 4s Gd pcf 1001b, steers sold at from £lO to £lO 10s, cows and heifers from £0 15s to £l4 10s. Calves were penned in small numbers, and improved in price greatly. Runners sold at from £7 5s to £0 17s fid for a heifer. Heavy suckers made £4 12s Gd to £5 15s, medium suckers £3 5s to £4 lis, light suckers £2 5s to £3 Is, small and fresh-dropped 3s to £1 Bs. Sheep were yarded in average numbers, and sold at ■improved prices. Best wethers sold at from £1 15s to £1 19s Od, others £1 9s fld to £1 14s Gd, best ewes £1 10s to £1 lGs, others £1 3s to £1 8s Od. Lambs were penned in small numbers, and sold freely, best £1 to £1 3s Gd, others lGs to 19s, hoggets £1 2s to £1 (is. Pigs were penned in average numbers an 'l sold at improved prices. Heavy baox)]. '""'in ,C 4 2s to £4 19s. medium .£3 l'U ""J S4, light £3 4s to £3 12s, heavy y v - <-2 9s to £3 Is, medium £2 le tu light £1 12s to £1 19* s\ipa v 1s w-oM.ers Ba to 13»,