COMMERCIAL.

Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 23 September 1913, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

— NGONGOTAHA SALES A .good attendance of the public marked the .sale of Messrs Martin Bros,' stock and farm implements on Wednesday tost at Ngongotaha, Bidding was brisk and well sustained; Everything sold at satisfactory prices. Quotations: - Choice springing cows £710 a to £9, later calvers £5 to £7, forward condition store cows £5 Is to £G, empty cows £3 2s' Gd to £1 15s, cows and calves £2 2s Gd to £5. empty hsifcrs £3 23 Gd to £ 115s, yearlimr heifers £3 to £312s Gd, heifer calves £110s, yearling steers £2 Is to £2 10s. Heavy draught horses £32 to £-11 10s, lighter draught £10 to £21, good spring cart sorts, £1G to £23, Syr old draught (broken to lead) £19 10:; to £39. The spring fair sale at Ngongotaha held by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company on Thursday last brought together a goad attendance of buyers from Waikato. Tq Puke, and the surrounding districts. About 1003 head ol all classes of cattle were yarded, 'and the competition, more especially for young stock was good. For the bulk of the big •cattle prices did not reach owner's values. Grown'steers £5 ;£o to £6 ss, 2yr steers £3 7s 5d to £4 7s 9d, yearling and ljyr steers £2 17s Gd to £3 ss, 2yr steers £3 7s G;1 to £3 ss. 2yr empty heifers £313s to £17s (iJ, yearlings to %r heifers £3 to ,13s to £17s Gd, yearlings to lAyr heifers £3 to £3 2s Gd, mixed f calves 30s, store cows £3 7s Oil to ;£4, cows and calves £1 1 15 a, 'springing heifers £314s to £i 2s 6d, dairy cows £315s to .S1 sj.