COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8196, 28 July 1906, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

&KETABUNA STOCK SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., held their fortnightly sale at the Eketahnna yards yesterday. There was a good yarding of both sheep an * oattle. Bidding for sheep was spirited, evAry line fluding purchasers. All oattle were disposed of though prines showed hd improvement on recent rates. Several horses were offered, and in all oases sales were effected A particularly good line of ewe hoggets reached 15s 7d, other 9a to 13s 2d; 4-tooth to f.f.m. ewes in lamb, good line, 19s 3d, others 9s lid to 15s 6d; cowsinoalf, 39a; good weaners, 16s; 2-year heifers 35s to 425; rising 3-year steers 70s; good springing cows, £6 Is; fast trotting trap mare, £25; 5-year heavy trap horse, £2O; hack pony, £4 2s 6d.

MARKET liKPORT. Tha following wholesale prices are quoted locally, July 28ih, 1906. £ s. d. 8 d. Flour, s'ks 11 0 0 Wheatmeal 11 0 0 Pollard 7 0 0 Baled Straw 1 10 o Chaff— Baled Hay 2 5 0 Best Oaten Barley new 4 0 0 18 0 0 Oaten Straw Onions 10 ° 0 chaff, new 1 15 0 Split Peas 18 0 0 Oatmeal 13 10 0 Potatoes 10 0 0 Bran 5 0 0 Peb Bushel. Wheat, fowl 3 3 Beans 4 3 Oats, short .. 2 8 Barley, feed 3 0 Oats long .. 2 8 Blue Peas 4 o Oats, dun .. 2 8 Partridge Peas 3 6 Maize ..4 0 Per lb. Hams .. 7 Bacon 7d Cheese .. 5J W.F.C.A. report— , Butter 6$d to 7*d Eggs Is 3d