COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1917, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

AUCKLAND STOCK MARKET. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited, report:— ' At Westflelii store sale on Thursday best dairy tows and heifers made from £l2 to £l7, others £9 to £ll 15b, bulla 7gns to 28gns, three yearling Shorthorn bulls averaged 23gns, empty cows and heifers £7 10s to £lO 10,*, yearling to IS-months steers .EC 7s fid to £9 15s, steer calves £4 os to £o 17s >(! d, heifer calves £3 ]ss to £5 ss. yearling to 18months heifers £5 10s to £7 17s fid. At Albert yards on Friday heavy draughts brought £22 to £35," medium draughts £lB to £2(l. hacks £9 to £ls, light harness sorts £l© to £l7, ponies £4 to £B. On Saturday, at Clevedon dairy cows and heifers brought £lO to £U 10s. bulls 7Jgiis to 12gns, empty cows and heifers £7 10s to £9 15s, calves A.4 5s to £5 10s, yearling heifers £5 12s fid to £7 ss, yearling steers £0 10 s to £S 10s, fat heifers to £K> 10;, fat steers to £lO 10s, shorn ewe hoggets £1 5s fid to £1 7s fid, ditto wether hoggets £1 8s (id, shorn ewes £1 15s. woolly wethers £2 Is fid. Porkers £2 ss.

On Monday, at Pukekohe, best dairy cows and heifers £1,3 IDs to £]f» ss, others £9 to £l2 las, bulls Sgns to 21gns.

On Tuesday at Pukekohe grown steers £l4 5s to £IG 10s, two to three-vear steers £ll 15s-to £l4. yearling h> 18months steers £fi 10s to £ll, ditto heifers £5 10s to £8 ss, empty cows and heifers £7 15s to £l3 2s Cd,"good calves £4 las to £0 2s (id, others £3 to £4 Ids, beef sold at fully Westfield prices; four very choice heifers averaged £2O 2s fid, two bringing £2O 15s, which is a record for the district.

At Wcsttinld fat stock market on Wednesday choice ox sold to £3 per 1001b, others £2 ls2 to £2 ISs, cow and heifer beef £2 8s to £2 15s per 1001b. Steers sold at from £ls to £24, cows and heifers £lO to £2O 5s for a heifer fated by Mr. Jno. Massey, Week's Island. Some of the averages were: A truck of steers from Mr. W. Vospei. Cambridge, £23: a truck of steei'B from Mr. It. A. Bent, Piitaruru, £lB las; a truck of steers from Mr. K. Ailen, Cambridge. £2O; fourteen steers from Mr. W. Gollan, Panmure, £2O ISs; eight cows and heifers from Mr. A. \V. Hall, Papatoetoe, £l4. Calves were again yarded in good average numbers, and sold well up to late rates. Runners sr.ade from £8 10s to £l2, heavy vealtrs from £G 5s to £7 15s. medium £4 2s 6d to £(! 2s Gd, light £2 12s (xl to £4, small and fresh-dropped, good colors 10s to £2 Ms, bad colors and weak Ss to 15s. Sheep were penned in average ;n«mbers, and prices were firmer. Best ,wethers sold at from £2 Ss to £2 15s Od, 'others £2 to £2 7s Od, best ewes £2 3s to £2 Ms, others £1 15s fid to £2 4s Od, hoggets £1 17s to £2 ss, 100 wethers 'from Mr. H. R. Mackenzie, Mangerc, ' averaged £2 14a od. Spring lambs were penned in small numbers, and sold at ►righ values, realising from £1 Ss to £1 13s Od, S from Mr. C. Levet. Mangere, averaged £1 10s 9d. Pigs were penned in average numbers, and met ready sale fcl late high rates. Heavy baeoners £5 •5s to £7 Ss, medium £4 7s (id to £4 17s lid, light £3 12s (id to £4 ss. large ;porker s £3 os to £3 12s Gd, smaller ,'£2 Ss to £3 4s, small £1 12s Gd to £2 7s Gd, slips 21s to 325.

N.Z. LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY CO.'.S REPORT.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company,' Ltd., Hawera brand], report as follows.Opunake: Forward cows £8 log to £ll 10a. yearling; steers £5 lfls to £(1 4a, yearling heifers £a 5s to £(., heifers and calves £lO ss, springing heif.ns £lO 'to £ll.

Miinaia: Medium fat cows £lO to. Cli 2s, stores £7 to £8 lfls, springing heif.ers £9 10s to £lO 10s, Shorthorn hulls lagns to 17%gns, fat lionets SO.i Od. Palmer road: Fat cows £lO ISs to £l2 14s, store cows £5 4s to £7 ss, cows and calves £S 10s to £9 10s, yearling steers £li to £li 17s. hulls, good. Shorthorns 20gns to 2'9gns. ordinary 12fjiis. to logns, Jersey bulls 14gns to Kigns, heifers, springing (early calvers) £ll to £l7 ss, late calvers £8 to £lO. Waverley: Forward cows £i) to £ll 17s Od, 2-year steers £lO 8s od, yearling steers £0 7s. heifers £5 his, 4 and (f----tcoth wethers 29s to 37s Gd, ewes and lambs 325, empty ewes 32a (id.

FARMERS' CO-OP. MARKET REPORT. Okaiawa: Fat cows £!.'! 10s to £l(i 2s forward cows £0 to £ll. store cows £7 10s to £8 17s lid, empty heifers £{! 2s to £7 ss, yearling steers £3 las to £(1 ISs. yearling heifers £4 to £5 as, springing heifers. £8 los to £l4, Shorthorn bulls 23gns to 2Sgns, Holstein bulls 12gns to Mgns, Jersey bulls lOgns.to la gn*. i

| Kltham: Fat cows £l3 to £l4 3s, I fresh conditioned cows £lO 10s to £l2 Bs. forward cows £9 as to £lO 2s, (store I cows £8 10s to £!) 3s, empty heifers £6 Mr. to £7 ISs 6d. good yearling heifers £i! to £7 12s, others £.') to £5 10s, yearling steers £5 2s to<£(i 3s (id, bulls sold at from £9 lis to £l7 17s, hoggets 29s 7d to £1 1.3s Id, best springing heifers £l2 t0.£13 los, calved heifers £l2 to £IS los. others £8 to £ll 10s. cows £lO to £l3 15s.

Hawera:. Bulls sold under keen competition. Fat and forward ewes £1 13s 3s to £1 14s, ewes and lambs £2 Ob 3d, nine fat bullocks on account of Messrs Hamilton Bros., realised £l9 17s, others £ to 17s to £lO ss. store steers £l3 2s, fat cows £l3 10s to £l4 17s fid, fresh .conditioned cows £lO 10s to £l2 4s, forward cows .£9 as to £lO Bs, store cows £8 as to £1) 2s, small store cows and empty heifers £(! 10s to £8 yearling steer" £5 to £7 2s, yearling "heifers £4 10s to £0 17s, best springing heifers £l2 to £l3 los, others £8 10s to £!1 10s, best Shorthorn bulls 21gns to 27M;gns, others 13gns to 20gns, Holstein bulls Ugns to 21gns. .Icrscv bulls Kigns to lflgns, other bulls lOgns to 14gus (53 bulls were sold, at auction).

Kaponga: Forward cows £lO to £ll 4s, store Cows £8 10s to £9 12s, empty heifers £6 10s to £8 3s, yearling heifer's £5 to £5 18s, steers £5 to £6 2s; best springing heifers £l3 to £l6, others ;£!> to £l2 10s, Holstein bulls 12gns to logos, Shorthorn bulls 13gns to 20gns, Jersey bulls lOgns to logns,