COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1917, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

NEWTQN KING'S REPORT. Sales during this-week, following on the Easter holidays, have been small, but prices, following the recent rains, have advanced slightly. At Stratford, on the 10th instant, fit neifers made £9 12s to £lO ss; forward cows £10; good frame store c.v.vs £7 Ss to £S; small cows £3 10s to £■! 16s; boners £4 12s to £5 18s; springing heifers £8; bulls £3 10s to £7 Ss: mixed weaners £3 lfls; in-calf 20-montli Jieifers £5 10s; rough 20-month steers £7 10s; 2.}-ycar steers (staggv) £lO two and four-tooth wethers 31s ad; f.m. ewes 18/G; small lambs 10s 5d to 10s Bd. At Inglewood, on the 11 Hi, store cows made £7 Is to £S; empty heifers £U lis; in-calf 20-month heifers £5 10s; empty )8-month heifers £4 Is; forward cows £S lis to £lO, according to condition; fair lambs 14s lOd; culls 12s 2d; two-tooth wethers, small, 29s (id. A. G. Wood's clearing sale, Tikorangi.—Springing cows £8 5s to £9 Ss; best spring calvert. .CO 10s to £ll ss; fair sorts £8 5s to £8 15s; small late calvers £5 10s; store cows £2 ss; weaner heifers £3 (the herd of cows averaged £8 10s). . Kaponga 13th.—Fat cows £lO 17s to £l3 lis; forward cows £9 7s fid to £lO 0s; fresh conditioned cows £8 to £9 2s (id; store cows £0 lfls to £7 7s; mixed weaners £3 4s: good weaner steers £4 2s (id; fair weaner steers £3 3s; nice line weaner heifers £3 3s Gd: bulls £7 7s Od to. £lO 12s Od; cull lambs 9s Gd; fat ewes 325. Faliotu, 13th—Small weaners 3Ss (id to £2 17s; forward cows £S Ss to £8 14s; store cows £5 to £7; boners £1 17s to £(> 2s (id.