COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1918, Page 8

COMMERCIAL.

AUCKLAND MARKETS. The Now Zealand Loan" and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., reports: West field store sale.—Best dairy cows and heifers, £l2 10s to £l7 los.'others £9 to £l2 ss; bulls, £7 to £l4; emptycows and heifers, £7 to £lO 12s Cd; yearling to 18-months heifers, £5 to £7 10s; weaner calves, £2 to £4 10s; yearling to 18-month steers, £5 12s (id to £8; interior calves 10s to £1 15s. Albert yards: Heavy drangHs, £22 to £33; medium draughts. £lO to £2O; hacks ami light harness horses, £8 to £ls: ponies," i' 3 10s to £7 10s; weeds, 10s upwards. Weslfield fat stock market.—Choice ox sold to £2 l.'ls per 1001b; prime, £2 !)s to £2 12s per 1001b; rough, £2 3s to £2 Us per 1001b: row and heifer beef, £2 4s to C2 10 i per 1001b. Steers from £l3 !o £22: cows and heifers, £9 to £lO 12s (Id. Calves: Runners, from £5 15s to £8 10s: heavy vealers, £4 3s to £5 12s Od; medium, £3 3s to £4 2s (id; light, 38s to £3 LV; small and fresh dropped, 3s to 355. Sheep: Best, wethers, £1 15s to £2; others £1 10s to £1 14s 9d; best ewes, £1 9s to £1 15s; others, £1 3s to £1 8s Od: inferior ewes, 12s to £1 2s 9d; hoggets, £1 3s to £1 12s. Lambs: Best, £1 :is to £1 Ss (id; others 18s to £1 2s 0d; shorn, Lis to lKs (id; store lambs, Ss to lis, inferior ditto 5s to 7s Od. Pigs: Medium baconers to £5 18s; light baconers, £4 to £5 ss; large porkers, £3 (is to £:! 19s; medium porkers, £2 lis in £3 ss; small, 35s to £2 10s; slips, CI 2s (id to £1 Pis (id; weaners, Ss to 17s (id. FARMERS' CO-OP. MARKET REPORT. Okaiawa sale, on Monday.—Fat cows sold at from £l2 Ills to '.£l3 12s Od; fresh conditioned cows. £lO 10s to £ll His;/ forward cows, £9 Ids to £lO Ss; store cows, £7 10s to £9; boners, £3 10s to £7; bulls, £8 10s to £lO 17s Od; weaner steers, £3 10s; weaner heifers, 25s to C2 12s 0d; fat sheep, 27s (id to 30s. Also, on account of Mr. A. Staee, we held a clearing sale of live and dead slock, which sold well. Sheep fair at Maugamingi.—There was a good attendance of buvers, and we report a very successful sa'le. 4, 0 and f.m. forward wethers sold at from 29s 9d to 325; 2-toofh wethers, 20s Od to 295; store wethers, 21s to. 23s (id; O-tooth to f.f.m. ewes, 22s (id to 27s Cd; f.f.m. ewes, 18s 0d to 21s Id; aged ewes, 10s Od tolOs 7d; best lambs, 10s to 12s 4d; others, 5s 6d to 9s Id. Eltham yards, on Wednesday.—Prices were on a par with late sales, and a good clearance was made at the hammer. Fat cows, £l2 10s to £l3 8s; fresh conditioned cows, £lO 10s to £ll 18s; forward and store cows, £8 to £lO 3s; light store cows, £7 (is to £7 14s; boners, £3 18s to £5 15s; bulls, £8 to £l3; weaner steers, £3 3s to £4 7s; mixed weaners, 30s to £2 Ss; store lambs, 10s to 14s Od; ewes, 23s 6d. Makahu special sheep fair.—The advertised number of sheep was yarded, and, with the exception of one peti of wethers, everything sold at fully late quotations. Forward wethers, 2Ss Od to 30s; store wethers, 20s to 22s 4d; f.f.m. ewes, 20s 3d to 21s sd; f.m. ewes, 14s to 18s; small 2 and 4-tooth owes, 13s Od to 17s 6d; lambs, 5s (id to 18s. Hawera yards.—We report a good salfc Fat sheep sold to 30s Od; fat and forward ewes, 25s to 2Gs Od; f.m. store wethers, 20s; aged ewes, 14s to 18s; best iambs, lis 9d to 13s 9d; others, poor 5s (id to^ 8s Od; fat cows, £l2 to £l3 10s; fresh conditioned cows, £lO 10s to •■CIS 10s; forward cows £9 10s to £loss; store cows, £0 ISs to £9 ss; boners, £3 )0s to £0 12s Od; bulls, £8 10s to £ls; good weaner Ssteers. £3 10s to £3 17s; others, 35s to ,£. ss. Kaponga.—We report a good sale. Fat cows, £l2 10s to £l3 2s; fresh and forward cows, £lO to £U 15s; store cows, £0 10s to £9 15s: boners. £3 15s to ■CO ss; bulls, £S to £lO 17s Od; weaner steers, £3 2s; weaner heifers, 35s to' ■C2 7s (id; others, 255; in-calf heifers, £5 3s to £5 17s Od; store lambs, 10s to 13s Id. Waverley yards, on Friday: We held our second sale. There was a good yarding of sheep, which for young forward sheep were keenly competed for. Others sold at late rates. Forward wethers sold to ,U 12s; f.f.m. ewes £1 5s Od to £1 9s; f.m. ewes 0s 3d to 14s; 2-tooth ewes (good) sold up to £1 19s; Southdown rams, £2 2s to 4J guineas.