COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 December 1918, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

*. _ WEEKLY REPORT. T!ia Xew Zealand Loan awl Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report:— Papaknra.—Two to three-year steers £7 15s to £ll 12s lid, yearlisg to 18months £5 as to £7 7s 6d; steer calves, good £3 5s to £4 7s Od, others £2 to £3 2s Cd; heifer calves, good £2 to £4 4s, inferior £1 ss; yearling to 18-montha heifers, £4 as to £0 IDs for those of extra good quality; empty cows and heifers, £5 10s to £S ss; aged and inferior cows, £2 to £4 las; bulls, £0 to £l4, according to quality; dairy cows and heifers, best £l3 to £l9, others £8 10s to £l2 15s. Beef at fully Westfleld prices. At Westfield fat stock; market on Wednesday, clioiee oxen sold to £2 13s per lOOlh, others £2 7s to £2 lis; cow and heifer beef, £2 fis to £2 12s; steers sold at from £ls 2s fid to £2l 17s fid; cows :ind heifers, £8 to £lO 7a fidCalves: A large yarding, with good demand for vpalers showing quality. R number of inferior calves were yarded, ar.d the-e were a little easier in price. Runners sold from £5 15s to £7 ss; lienvv voaleiv; £1 7s fid to £5 12s od, medium £3 7s fid to £4 6s, light £2 to £3 fis,' small and fresh-dropped 8s to 335. Pigs: Good average yarding, with price s up to last -week's quotations, weaners selling at high rates. Choppers and heavy baconers. £5 12s fid to £8 IDs; large porkers £.l 10s to £5 7s fid, medium £2 12s to £3'7s fid. small £2 2s to £2 7s fid; wennors, 30s to £2. PJioep were yarded in average numbers, and sold at fully last week's rates, the sheep yarded being mostly good quality. Best shorn wethers made from £1 Ills lo £1 IBs «d. others £l. lis to £1 IBs fid: host shorn ewes el Ids to £1 15s, others £1 4s firl to £1 Ss7.il. unfinished £1 to el Is liil; woolly wethers, £2 3s to £2 6s; wooly cwcm, £1 lfis fld to £1 IDs fld: best w'nollv hoggets £1 14s fid to £1 10s fld, others £l. 9s fid to £1 14s. Lambs. ■in average mimhers, sold at last week's high rates. Best made from £1 Ss fld to £1 lis f)d, otEers £l Is to £1 7s 9i ; - ' '.>