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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10670, 27 June 1912, Page 7

COMMERCIAL

JOHNiSON VILLE STOCK SALE. (By Telegraph —Special to the Age.) ; JOHNSON VILLE, Last Night, Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report 011 their Johnsonville sale as follows: —A good yarding of sheep and cattle came forwiird, and sold at late rates Prime heavy bullocks, ' £lO 10s to £lO 12s 6d; lighter, £9 10s to £lO 2s 6d; light, £B, 5s to £8 10s; prime heavy wethers, £1; medium wethers, 17s to 17s 6d; prime heavy, ewes, 17s 3d; mediujn ewes, 14s to 14s 9d; prime lambs, 13s Id; shorn, 12s 3d; plain, 9s. . LONDON WOOL SALES. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London office, under date 24tli : „ inst: — "The list of arrivals has closed. I The new arrivals amounted to 494,- j 500 bales, of which quantity 247,000 I bales have been ■ forwarded direct to / manufacturers at home and abroad, leaving (with 20,000 bales of old stock carried forward) 267,000 bales avail- ' able for the sale." , MASTER'I'ON STOCK SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd.-, re- . port on their Sohvay sale (Masterton) of yesterday as follows: —We had a very poor yarding of both sheep and cattle, our principal entries not coming forward. We quote as follows : 2-tooth ewes in lamb, 15s 2d; empty heifers, to £3 4s; heifers in calf, 1 (late), to £4'ss; dairy cows, to £8 10s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. and Reduced, report:—-We had a fair yarding of both sheep and cattle. Competition was rather keener than at the prev-■ ions sale,, and we sold all the sheep 1 uhdor the hammer. Lambs brought from. 8s lOd to 9s lOd; forward ewes | and wethers,. 13 s lOd; springing heifers, £5 3s Od to £7 3s 6d : cows, £4 5s to £8 ; old cows, £2 to £3 10s. WAIPOUA STOCK SALE.

. _• ■ . ; I Messrs James Macintosh, and Co, j ■report; on.their Waipoua sale as follows : —We had a good yarding of j sheep <aPd, a medium entry of cattle. J All good sheep met with ready comipetition, but cull lines, were harder to quit than recent sales, but we disposed of practically the whole yarding at the following prices :■ —Fat wethers 15s 5d to 17s 3d; fat lambs, 13s 4cl; f.m. ewes in lamb, 10s 3d to lis; ■ woolly lambs, 10s, 9d ; shorn lambs. 9s 6d'; ; cull lambs, 5s 2d to 6s Id; cull owes,"7s';'to Ts-lld. Dairy cows close to '• calving,. £9 ss; spring calvers, £5 10s, I to £6 2s 6d. PAIJTATUA STOCK SALE. ' ; . . .P ; Messrs Abraham . and Williams, Ltd., report on their Pahiatua sale, •• held on Tuesday in the Farmers' Association's yards, as follows: —We of- • fered a fair yarding of. sheep and a heavy yarding of cattle to a. large attendance of buyers. Bidding was spirited throughout, the whole yard-' ■ ing changing hands with the excepfjjo" of a'few penn of cattle, at/prices well un • to late Qii»>t«t ; ons':— Good hoggets. 12s'3d to. 12s; 7d, the batter tine being exceptionally good; fat and: forward, inwes and wethers, to 14s 3di- ■ -Oaftle: JB-monbhs"; steers, £2 10s +o £3 ss'; nil] wear' 11 ' Gd to 20s; fat heifers, to £4 3s; store r cows, 365. to •£3 12s fid; springing J"; heifer's';. in : good condition; £6 15s to I £7 7r. Gd. ■ ? l \-