LATE COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10596, 30 March 1912, Page 5

LATE COMMERCIAL.

STOCK SALE

• Messrs Dainty and Co., Ltd., report having he-Id their usual weekly sale at Eketahuna yesterday. Entries came forward above advertised numbers, and wo managed to quit the wholo yarding. Both sheep and cattle were.of bettor quality than of late, and wfl have to report a good sale: Quotations: Good f.m. ewes, 8s Id to 10s 7d; poor sorts, 3s 9d to ss; 2, 4 and 6-tooth ewes, 10s 3d to 12s Id; 2tooth ewes, 10s to 10s 9d; b.f. lambs, 5s 6d to 8s Id; mixed cull lambs, 2s 3d to 5s Id ;2-toot'h wethers,' 12s to 13s; heifers in-calf £3 2s 6d to £3 10s; empty heifers, £2 17s;. young steers. £ib 10s to £4 125,6 d; store cows, £4 17s 6d to £5-ss; yearling steers, • £2 Is to £2 19s.

Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as follows: We had a fair yarding of both sheep and cattle. There was good competition for sheep at slightly lower values. Cattle were dull of sale. .We made a total clearance in sheep. Quotations: —2-tooth wethers 13s 2d, 4-tooth wethers 14s, 2-tootft small 9s to lis 6d, full mouth ewes 8s Id to 9s 6d, cull 4s to ss, woolly lambs 6s Sd to 9s, 4-tooth ewes 12s. Cattle—lß-month steers, \£3 15s; weaner calves, 28,s 6tl to 29s 6d.