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Taranaki Daily News, 10 May 1917, Page 3

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N.Z. LOAN & REPORT The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Lid., Stratford, report as follows; On Thursday, April 20, we held our usual monthly sale at Kehurata'ii. We had a good yarding of cattle and a fait yarding of sheep. We havo to report a moderate clearance of eattle, and the sheep were all sold. Five lambs Ife M. 20-month steers £8 lis, £8 12s fid, springing heifers £8 l,">s to £!) lf>s, empty cows £5 Ids to £5 11?, we.iii'/r hull £2, mare ;01. Our next sale at Kohuratahi will be held on Thurr!,iv May 24. Ml 7.

On Monday, April .10, we held a icrv successful clearing sale on account of Mrs. T. ft. Florence, near Tarata. Th 'l'c was a largo attendance, and so'd prices were obtained for the herd of c.iv.-'. considering the earliness of the reason. The sundries also sold well. Plough £.l 2s fid, dray £O, separator £l2, dor; 3l«, pigs 735, haystack 755, dairy cows, small and late ealvers £7 Is to ~£S 10s, lntrealvers £!) to £lO, good early sorts £lO Es to £l4, average for sound eoxvs £Vi 2s Sd, heifers, young AOs, good sorts M-K The other entries bv settlers sold at full

value*. Heifers £8 2s (id 10 £lO, heifers in milk £5 5s to ,-Cl 17 j, cows, laic calvers 14Gs to 197s Gel, wearier steers 83s, mixed wcaners, small gig Sua. On Tuesday, May 1, we lieid our usual fortnightly sale at Stratford. We had an average entry and «okl most lines at full market values. Stcie cows, small 51s to 105 s, medium sort? 120s to 140s, heavier 103s, weaner steers from (10s to !)2s for a line yarded by a Stanley road client, 20-month steer* '.£o 17s (id) ewes, old, 13s, boar 15s, weaner pigs 3s. Our next sale at Stratford yards will be held no Tuesday, May I!i, at 1 o'clock. We held olir usual Tarnta sale on Friday, May 4. We had an average entry although the day was wet, and'have ti» report a good sale. Cull owes 10b 9d, wethers 31s Id, store cows £7 10s to '£B 12s, i.e. heifers, small S2s (id, 18luontli steers 110s (Id, w.-'juer heifers, small 3(is, steers, small 45s (id. Our next sale in these yards will be held on June 1. 1917.

Sine.: we last reported w: have placed a lat of stock privately, mostly to outside buyers, and are having further enquiries for other linos of useful stock. Prices as follows:—Lamb, good ICs 2d, 17s to 17s Od, lambs, r.ma'l '.ls to 25, lambs, fair to medium 13s 0d to l;'s lid, 2-tootli ewes 30s to 335. 4 and fi-tooth 24s to 28s, 2-tooth jvethers 32s Gd, rains 35s to 425, mixed weaners '£2 12s (Id, store cows "£G 15?, 20-mon'h stsVrs f£9 "ss, 24-year steers £lO 103 to £ll 2s Gd. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLE, The High Commissioner's market report, dated London, sth (Note: quotations, miles otherwise specified, are average market prices on spot), is as follows: Meat prices are now higher for hornskilled mutton and English lamb, owing to small supply; all descriptions of frozen meat and home-killed beef in fair supply; New Zealand mutton 8 7-Sd, ewe mutton BJd; Argentine mutton, small supplies, 10(1; Argentine lamb Id, Patagonian Kijd; North American lamb 14Jd; Argentine chilled btef, hands llid, fores lOd. Butter: Market has a firmer tone r.inee last report; Danish 204s to 208s; New Zealand salted 20 Is to 20Gs, 1111isalted 204s to 20Ss; Australian salted 190s to l!)4s; unsaltcd 192s to 1995; Irish creamery 190s to 1945; Argentine salted 186s to 188s; unsalted 188s to 1925.

Cheese: Market continues firm; Canadian, white and eolored 1025; States fiats KiOs; estimated Canadinn and States cheese stocks in London, Liverpool nnd Bristol, 23,000, as against 74,000 at the same time last year. New Zealand cheese: Port of Liverpool official figures give stock at OTOO crates. Homp: Market quite firm: Government now coiisidmnp Manila freight charges; no Manila oHoi'ins; >"e\v Zealand quotations noini'ial; sclK-.s ask for fair on spot £BO. Wheat: Market flri'.i w".\ more enquiry. C JS.' 'Su¥S "ISttd'.:'- .So«.