COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1920, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

i AUCKLAND STOCK MARKETS. Tie New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report: Diiry cows and heifers were penned in average numbers at Westfleld, selling at late quotations. Dairy cows and heifers close to pro-' fit, best £lB to £2l 10s, others'£ll to £ls 15s; backward sorts, best £l3 to £lO 10s. others £8 10s to £l2 15s; aged cows and inferior heifers, £4 10s to £7 15s. Store' cattle sold readily: empty cows and heifers, £4 10s to £7 10s; bul\s, -£5 to £lO 10s; calves, £1 5s to £2 10s; yearling to 18montbs heifers £3 to £5 10s, steers £3 5s to £5 15s. At Papakura we held a special horse sale. Unbrokehs, heavy, sold to £42, medium £ls ; to £25, light £8 to £l4; heavy draughts £33 to £SO, medium £25 to £4O 10s; hacks, £9 to £l6 10s; light harness sorts, £lO to £2O; ponies, £4 to £l2; weeds, 15s .upwards. We held a clearance sale of Mr. Jas. Bramby's live and dead stock on Tuesday, ]at Wbitford, the bidding being keen from a'large assembly of buyers. The cows sold to £l9 15s; pigs, £3; fresh-dropped calves, £1 10s; horse, £35. ' At Westfleld fat stock market, plain and unfinished cattle were easier in price. We quote: Choice oxen sold to £2 19s per 100 lb, prime £2 12s to £2 18s per 1001b, plain and unfinished oxen £1 18s to £2 9s per lOOlblj cow and heifer beef sold at from £2 4S to £2 13s per 1001b; steers sold at from for heavy steers £24 10s to £29 10s, lighter prime steers £l9 to £24, others £l3 to £lB 15s; cows and heifers sold at from £8 10s to £ls 15s; heavy prime wethers, £2 3s Od 1o £2 8s Od, medium £2 0s Od to £2 3s 3d, light £1 17s to £2 0s 3d, unfinished and small wetliers £1 14s to £l 16s 9d, medium £1 13s to £1 15s 9d, light £1 10s to £1 12s 9d, unfinished and inferior ewes £1 5s to £1 9s 9d. A larger yarding of calves, many being iprime runners, sold freely at late Improved 'values. Runners sold from £0 to £l2 12s Od for a two-year-old heifer; heavy vealers £4 13s to £5 19s, medium £3 12s to £4 lis, light £2 2s 6d to £3 lis. lighter fat calves 18s to £2 Is, fresh-dropped 5s to 15s; extra heavy primer lambs £1 .17s 5d to £2 4s, heavy prime £1 14s to £1 17s 3d. medium £1 10s to £1 13s 9d, light prime £1 7? Od to £1 9s 9d; small and unfinished lamlis £1 4s to £1 7s 3d. A slightly larger entry of pigs sold readily. Light to hs?avy baconers, £5 15s to £8 2s Od; heavy porkers. £5 5s to £5 14s; medium, £4 15s to £5 4s; light, £3 15s to £4 17s, unfinished. £2 15s to £3 12s; weaners, £1 7s to £2 7s.