COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 July 1916, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

TARANAKI WOOL. SKIN, HIDE AND TALLOW HALES. MR. NEWTON KING'S REPORT. On Tuesday, July 25, at my sale of the above, I catalogued 44 bales and 112 sacks of wool, 12' GO sheepskins. 3 casks and 31 tins tallow, 450 hides and 217 calfskins and the usual sundries. Crutchings declined y,d per lb in sympathy with the drop in other eenties. Sheepskins hardly maintained last month's rates, salted lines being most allected. Owing to the weather conditions, hides were in a sloppy state and heavies a. shade easier, while lights hardened y,d. Tallow sold at late rates. I,quote:— Wool—Crutchings lid to Is heavy and seedy !)Jd to lOkl, fleece is. In sacks: Crutchings S'/|d to 10y 2 d, fleece 8d to Is, lambs Gd to black 7%d, locks 3d to 5%d. Sheepskins—Full-wool 9%d to half-wool 9y 2 d, double fleeces 7d, dead B%d, dead and damaged Gd to Sd, pelts l'/sd to 4d, black 7d; damp lines, heavy 10s to lis, medium Ss (id to !)s 9d, light 3s 9d to Gs 9d, damaged 5a Sd to fld, light damaged 2s 4d. to fls, dead 2s 3d to ss, dead damaged 2s to (Is; salted lines, best 7s 'Gd, light 4s 4d to Gs 9d, damaged Is 6d to 4s 7d, Hides—Ox, 10% dto 10% d; cow, heavy 9%d to 10y 2 d, medium 9y 8 d to 10% d, light 9d to 10y 4 d, cut 7d, dry farmers' 7Jd to BJd, cut and slippy GJd to 7%d, dry Sd; horses, heavy Ss Gd to lis, light cut Ss; yearlings Sd to Bd, cut and slippy G|/ 2 d to Sd. Calfskins—Best 10y 8 d to 10V4d, seconds Sd to 9}d, cut and slippy 4d to Sd, slinks Is. best, 30s; in tins, 22s to 2Gs Gd. Horsehair, Is id to Is Gd per lb Cowtails, Is per dozen. Horse tails, Is each. Bones, £5 per ton. ■My next sale will be held on August 22.

LOAN & MERCANTILE CO.'S REPORT. Tlie New Zealand Loan anil Mercantile Co., Ltd. (Stratford branch) report as follows: — At our fortnightly sale in our Stratford yards on the 11th inst. we had a good yarding of sheep and cattle. There wai a good demand for all classes of stock, and we made practically a total clearance at the following prices:—F.M. ; ewes in lamb (poor) 20s to "27s (id, 2-tooth wethers 325, hoggets 19s Gd to 225, fat cows £S 15s to £ll ss, forward cows £7 15s to £S 10s, light cows £5 to £G 10s, 2-year emptj heifers £4 2s Gd to £5 10s, 3-year empty heifers £G os to £7 10s, yearling heifers £2 10s Gd |to £3 15s Gd, yearling steers £4 Is to £4 13s, 3-ycar springing heifers £0 2s fid to £S, 2-year springing heifers £5 15s to £0 10s, dairy cows £lO to £lo 10s. At our Stratford yards on the lltli inst. we held a clearing sale of cows on [account of T. lnglis. Esq. There was a [good attendance of buyers, and cows I met with a good sale. Coed cows £ll Ito £l3 15s, others (with age) £7 10s to £'lo 10s. the 51 cows averaging £lO 3s; in-calf heifers £0 lis, bulls £7 5s to £lO 10s.

On Wednesday, 19th inst., we held a clearing sale on account of C. S. Carle.v, Esq., of Cardiff. There was a large attendance of buyers, and sundries and cows sold well. Prices: Chestnut mare (4 years) £23 10s, black gelding £29 10s, pony £7 15s, hay mare (aged) £l3, pedigree Holstein bull 30 1 /. guineas, grade Holstein bull '£ll 10s, grade yearling bulls £5 10s to £G 2s Gd, Holstein yearling heifers £5, yearling heifers £3 fls Gd, breeding sows (empty) £2 lis to £.3 17s Od, wcaner pigs 9s tid to 14s Od, cows (good) £ll to £l4 10s foi best young cows, aged cows £S to £lO, making a good average for 47 cows of £ll 14s; 2-year in-calf heifers (line) £7 10s. On Friday, 21st inst., we held our usual monthly sale in our Te Wera yards, and we had a good yarding of cattle and sheep. Stock was in good demand, and we had a good sale at the following prices:—Two-year empty lioiiors £4 Ills to £5 ss, empty cows £0 lis to £7 13s, 2-vear in-calf heifers £5 7s to £5 15s, wenncr steers (small) £3 .is Gd, weaner heifers 5Us to £3 3s, f.m. ewes in lamb lis Id to 25s Cd, hoggets 17s 'o 235, 2 and 4-tootli wethers 28s Gd. Our next sale at Te Wera will be held on August IS At bur fortnightly sale ill our Stratford yards on 25th inst. we had a heavy yarding of cattle and sheep. Cattle sold well .at current rates, lmt sheep were dull of sale. Prices: Hoggets 20s, ewes in lamb 28s to 31s. 3d, fat empty ewes 32s i)d. fat cows £lO to £l3 3s, forward cows £8 to £fl 15s, light cows C 5 2s Gd to £G 7s Gd, empty 2-year heifers £1 10s tn £5 ss. yearling steers £4 7s to £4 15s, yearling heifers 5Gs to £3 15s, 2-year steers £7 to £S 10s, 3-vear steers £9.

In otir dairy pens we had a good yarding of cows iiml heifers. Dairy cows, on account of J. B. Clcmow, Esq. (wlio is reducing his herd owing to another of liis boys going to the front), made £ll to £l3 10s, ;l-tcuter £8 ss, making a good average of £l2; Jersey heifers (2-yenrs) on account of same vendor £S 7s (Id to £lO, averaging £8 10s; 3-vear springing heifers £7 17s 6d to £!) .is, dairy cows £8 10s to £ll. Our next Stratford sale will be held oil August 8. Since our last report, stock has been in good demand, am! we have sold seveial lines privately at the following prices:—Two and a-half year empty lieifers £G 3s to £0 15s, 3-year bullocks £!) to £l2, 2-year steers £7 10s to £8 (for a line of 130), yearling steers £3 lGs to £4 2s fid, yearling heifers £3 3s to £3 Ms, store cows £7 10s, 3-year in-calf heifers £(! to £B, 2-year empty heifers £4 7s Od to £5 10s, f.m, ewes 10s 9d to 30s Od, fat ewes 30s, 2 and 4-topth wethers 30s to 31s 3d, 4 and 0-tootli and f.m. ewes 32s to 355. hoggets 17s to 22s !)d, dairv herds £lO 10s, £ll lis, £ll 15s, £i-2, £l2 ss, £l2 10s to £l3. HIDE AND WOOL SALE.

On Tuesday, 2jth instl, we held on:' usual monthly wool and skin sale. For this time of the year we had a very f;iir catalogue, but owing to the non-at-tendance of one or two buyers, bidding was not brisk. Crutohings showed a decline of all 2d per lb, owing, we understand, to the buyers on account of Japan having their limits stopped. Sheepskins, in sympathy with the decline in London, were slightly easier. Fides wore on a par with the previous sale. The following are some of the prices realised:— Wool. —Sacks: Crossbred fleece, pt. lambs Sd, crossbred crutehings (bidi) !)d, crossbred fleece ll%d, crossbred pieces f>l4d, crossbred locks 5V4d, crossbred fleece (dea4) 7%d to lid. Bale wool: Flec-ce little pieces ll%d, erutchings

(seedy) Oil. fleece (seedy) ll'/Jd, lambs (bidi) j.7y 2 d, Sheepskins.—Pelts 2d, crossbred sliortwoolled 7y 2 d, crossbred torn dead 7%d, crossbred half-woolled B%<l, crossbred butchers' 10 l /;d to Md, three-quar-tcr-woollcd lOd to l<)'/»d. crossbred damaged S'/sd to 9J4d, crossbred black 7%d, Jambs 7>/ 2 d, lambs (torn) G%d, salted sheepskins lis each. Bone, 4s 3d s cwt., tallow '22s 3d to 24s fld cwt., horsehair Is Id. Cow bides—Settlers': 371bs 7id, 381bs B%d, SOlbs Sd. Butchers': 44lbs 9%d, 331bs o%<l. Yearlings, 7 1 / ad to Bd. Calfskins, cut, 7d, fleshy lfld.

AUCKLAND. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:— At Wcstfield fat' stock market on Wednesday beef was penned in extra large numbers and mostly of excellent quality. Bidding was irregulai and prices easier. Choice quality oxen sold to £2 5s per 1001b, others £2 2s to £2 4s; steers sold at from £9 5s to '£2o 103; cows and heifers sold at from £2 to £2 4s for first quality, others £1 17s to £1 19s; cows sold at from £S to £lB 12s 0. Calves were penned in iull numbers and sold at fully last week's prices. Runners sold at from ,£G 10s to £lO 2s Gd, heavy suckers £4 15s to £G 15s, medium suckers £3 2s (id to £4 12s fid, light suckers £1 15s to £2 18s, small and fresh-dropped 4s to £1 10s. Sheep were yarded in average numbers and improved in prices from Is Gd to 2s Gd a head. Best wethers sold at from £1 Ids Gd to £2 Gs lid, others £1 lis Od to £1 IDs, best ewes £1 12s to £1 15s 9d, others £1 7s to £1 lis Gd, hoggets (in average numbers) £1 3s to £1 10a Gd. Pigs were penned in average numbers, and sold at improved prices. No choppers or heavy baconers were yarded. Medium baconers £3 7s to £3 19s, light baconers £3 to £3 Gs, heavy porkers £2 17s to £3 9s, medium porkers £2 5s to £2 16s, light porkers £1 18s to £2 4s, suckers 1-ls to ISs, slips £1 3s to £1 13s.