COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10082, 1 September 1910, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

PAHIATUA sto:k ale. Messrs Dalget.v and Co., Ltd., report having held their usual weekly sale in Pahiatua this week at their own yards on Mangahao Road, when they offered a yarding [only of sheep well above advertised numbers. Our advertised entry comprised fat sheep and guod forward hoggets and ewes with lambs, which all came forward to meet a good erquiry, consequently all sheep offered were sold. We quo*e aa follows Hoggets, 13s lid to 14s lUd to 15s; poorer sorts, to 10s 8d; ewes'with lambs, tolls6d; fat ewes, 13s to 14s 3a. Our rext sale will be held next Tuesday at the Pahiatua Farmers' yards. Abraham and William 3, Ltd., report:—We only yarded one pn of hoggetß and a small yarding of cattle, j most of which were dairy sorts. With the exception of two pens of back- | ward heifers, we cleared every thing, j We quote—Hoggets, 133 9d; fat i cows, £5 Is; empty cows, £2 14s 6d to £3 sb; cows in calf, £3 17s to £4 7s 6d; heifers in calf, £4 5s to £5 2s 6d; empty heifers, £3 3s to

£3 10s; weaner heifers, £2 2s.

WEST COAST MARKET,

The New Zealand Loan and Mer-

cantile Agency Co., Ltd., stock report:—On Monday, 22nd inst., we held our usual fortnightly aala at Opunake. There was a moderate yarding of cattle and a good demand for all classes.', Fat cows broaght from £6 6s to £6 16s, fat heifers £7 ss, fresh cows £4 to £4 10s, store cows £3 to £3 16s, springing dairy heifers £6 2a 6d to £7 ss, backward heiers £4 5s to £4 15s, 2 year empty heifers £3 6s to £3 lis, 15 month steers £2 15s, yearling steers £2 10s, yearling heifers £2 3s tn £2 12s 6d, mixed yearlings 335, forward ewes lis 3d, weaner pigs 12s 6d, slips 20s. At Manaia, on the 23rd inst. we had a fair yarding. A large amount ■of dairy stock came forward and sold at satisfactory prices. Forward cows made £3 10a to £4 ss, store cows £3 3s to £3 12h, springing dairy heifers, good, £6 15s to £8 15s, later calvers £4 15a to £5 12a, 6d, 2 year empty heifera £3 lis to £3 15s, yearling-bulls £2 lis to £3 15s, yearling steers £2 16s, hoggets 13s, store pigs 21s to 24s 6d, I weaner pigs 12s.