COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 October 1918, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

N.Z.L. AND MA, CO.'S EEPORT. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., (Hawera branch) report as follows: Kakaramea.—Hoggets 32s 3d to £2, forward cows £9 to £lO 12s, stores £7 10s to £8 15s, light cows £5 10s to £7, empty heifers £6 12s to £7 117s, Holstein bulls £lB to £2O, Shorthorns £l7 10s to £lB ss, yearling steers £4 os to £6, heifers £3 15s to £4 17s Od, dairy cows £l6 to. £25 ss, three-year-old heifers £l4 *.o £IS 10s, calved heifers £ll to £l7. Eltham.—Forward cows '£S to £lO ss, light ditto £5 to £7, empty heifers £5 17s to £6 'IBs, yearling steers £5 10s to £5 15s, Shorthorn bulls £ls to £lB 15s, 15-montfii ditto £ll to £l3 10s, Holstein bulls £ls to £l7. Hawera.—Young cattle were not in demand, dairy cows and heifers selling particularly well. Forward cows £9 to £l2 17s, stores £7 to £8 15s, light cows £5 to £<s 15s, hoggets 335, ewes ISsj dairy cows £l4 to £lB, heifers £l3 to £lB ss, 2-year-olds £l2 to £ls, cows and calves £l2 to £l7, heifers and calves £0 to £l] 10s, store pigs £2 13s to «3 3s, slips 20s to 28s, ,ww £S 10s.

In conjunction with the Farmers' Organisation Society we report having held a clearing sale of yearling cattle on account of Mr J. F. Stevenson, at which the following prices were realised: Yearling Holstein steers £5 10s to £K Is, small steers £3 'l3s, Jersey cross heifers (good) £7 to £7 Is, others £5 7s to £6 15s, Shorthorn heifers £5 to £5 13s, small heifers £3 15s to £4 os. Our annual hull fair was held at the Hawera. yards on Friday. 18th inst., when the following prices were realised: Two-year Shorthorn bulls from 22 to 25 guineas, yearling Shorthorn bulls 17 to iBJ guineas, 2-year Holstein hulls 22 !to 25 guineas, stud Jersey imlls from '2SJ to 32J guineas, grade ■'■■■wy bulls 12 guineas.