COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1917, Page 8

COMMERCIAL.

LOAN AND MERCANTILE REPORT. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Stratford, reports as follows: On Thursday, December 0, we held our usual monthly sale in our Kohuratahi yards. Owing to dullness of market we had a small yarding. Most lines changed hands at satisfactory prices at the hammer or immediately afterwards. 2year steers, £8 5s to £lO ss; bulls, £9 13s; bulls, £ll 13s; shorn wethers, 24s (id to 28s; shorn ewes, 24s to 24s fid; small shorn hoggets, 13s. On Tuesday, December 11, we held oiir usual fortnightly sale in our Stratford yards. We had a good yarding and nearly every line changed hands at satisfactory values, despite the unpleasantness of the wet weather. Store cows, £8 3s empty heifers £7; 15-month steers £ti lis to £7 9s; 15-month heifers £4 Is to £5 12s 6d; shorn wethers, 29s 6d; old owes 15s.

On Tuesday, December 11, we held a clearing sale on account of A. J. Huston, Esq., consisting of cattle, sheep and farm implements, in our Stratford yards. Considering the quality of the stock, values were satisfactory, particularly for the cattle. The sheep were of small frame, and lambs were late and small in size. Implements and horses sold well. Bullocks, £l3; steers, £8" to £8 18s; fresh forward cows, £9 to £lO 16s; heifers in milk, £0 2s 6d; 15-month heifers, £5 2s to £5 17s; bulb, £fi 5s to £9. Sheep (shorn): Ewes and lamb.s, 24s fld to 27s 4d; dry ewes, 19s Id to 25s lOd; ewe hoggets, 21s lOd; wether hoggets 24s lOd; forward wethers 28s; 2d. Rama: Border Leicester, £3 8s; Romney, £2 17s; Lincoln, £3 Is; Southdown, 20s; Shropshire, 20s; old rams, 9s 6d. HorseS: Geldings, £l4 to £2O; mare £lB ss; old horses, 10s, 20s to £3 ss. Machinery, etc.: Discs, £10; Duncan plough, £8 ss; lever plough, £C 10s; International, £2 ss; swingletrees, 355; chain harrows, £9; jack, £(i; tip dray, £10; tip dray harness, £4. On Thursday, December 13, we held our usual monthly sale in our Te Wera yards. Most stock yarded were saleable sorts, and made ruling values. Store cows, £7 7s (id; 15-month steers, £7 ss; shorn ewes, 255; shorn wethers, 255. On Friday, December 14, we held our usual monthly sale in our Tarata yards. We had a good yarding, and a vcry'satisfactory sale. Young Rattle showed buoyancy of competition at recent values. Hoggets sold in conformity with recent lower values. Bull, £ll Is; 2-year steers, £lO 6s; 15-month steers, £6 12s 6d to £7 18s 6d; 15-month heifers, £3 12s Gd to £5 Hs; ewe hoggets, shorn, 2fis; wether hoggets, shorn, 26s 9d; mixed hoggets, shorn, 21s 7d; fat and forward ewes, 32s'Cd. Since we last reported we have sold the following lines privately. Paddock sales here have been slightly better since last report: 4-year forward bullocks, £ls 15s to £l6; bullocks, £l2; empty heifers, £7 to £7 ss; bulls, £ll 10s to £2O- - heifers, £4 12s to £« 10s; shorn 4 and 6-tooth wethers 26s to 29s 3d; small woolly hoggets, 30s.