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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10677, 25 July 1912, Page 6

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PAHFATUA STOCK SALE. ITne Xc'»v Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., and Reduced, report having held their weekly .sale in the P.F.A. yards on 'ftiesday, Avhen they offered a good yarding of sheep and cattle to a fair attendance of farmers and (buyers from the .surrounding districts. All stock offered sold Avell up to late rates, and they have to report a total clearance at the following ratCvS, Avith the exception of one pen of cattle. Mixed hoggets (good), 14s to 15s; medium do., 10s 5d to lis Gd; empty ewes, 10s 3d; dairy eows, £5 to £8; backward n OAvs, £4 to £4 10s; store coavs, £3 2s. WAIPOUA STOCK SALE. Messrs James Macintosh and Co. report having held their usual weekly salo' in their Wai'poua (Mastenton) sale yards on Wednesday, July 24th, when, they offered only ft very small yarding well up to late rates. Quotations are as follows: —2 and 4-tooth wethers, 17s; woolly la.m:bs, 9s 3d to 9s Gd; cull lambs, 7s 3d; lincoln oavo Jambs, 12s sd; 3 and 4-year cows, £4 10s; dairy coavs, £G Gs. MASTERTOX WOOL AND SKIN SALE. . Mess-.rs Levin and Co., Ltd., report: —We held-our monthly sale of avool, skins and bides to-day, when avo submitted a catalogue of 35 bales and 50 bags of avool, 1300 sheepskins, 100 hides,' and calfskins, and a quantity of horsehair, rabbitskins and talW. There AA'as a full attendance of buyers, and competition, AA'as keen at full market rates. We quote:—Wool crossbred, 7£d to BJd; crutehings, best, Gd to 6-id; medium, 5d to s;]d; seedy, 32d to 4;] d. Sheepskins:—Crossbred,

7d to 7'i-d ; lialf avwoLs, GJd to 7jd ; i-wools, 4jd to Gd ; shorts, 4d to 6d ; pelts, 3id to 4kl; lambs, G' { d to 7£d; hoggets, 3d to 7d ; dead crossbred, ,3d to 3;;; {larnj' i - bred, 2s 4d to 8s lOd; half-wools, 3s (kl. Hides: Ox, skl to (i'cl; calfskins, 7j{(l to lid. Tal- | low casks, 2Gs, tins, 20s Gd to 245. | Horsehair, Is Kd. Rabbitskins, Gd to ■ Hid. Our next sale will be held on September 4th. j

The "Wairnrapa Farmers' Co-opera-tive Association report as follows: — We held our monthly sale of wool, sheepskins and hides yesterday, when we offered 10 bales and 100 bags of wool, GOO sheepskins, 100 hides and calfskins. There was a good attendance of buyers, and everything was quitted at full market rates, which are quite on a par with our last catalogue. We quote : —Wool: Crutchings, 5M to Gd ; crutehings, seedy, 33d to 42d; lambs, 7-Jd; lambs, seedy, ssd; dead, GJ-d ; locks. 33d. Sheepskins: La.mhs, Gid to "id; half wools. s£d; quarter wools, dead, 4d ; erorahrcd, 7d ; crossbred. dead, 3id to Gd ; quarter wools, 3id ; hoggets, 53d: hoggets shorn, 5d ; , hoggets, seedy, lid : double deckers, j si<l; shorts, s\d : black. 3id ; hall' wools, damp, each, 5s Gd; quarter wools, damp, each, 3s 7d ; dead, damp, each 3s 7d. Hides: Coat, good, Gd to 6gd ; cow,.slippy, 52d; ox. slippy, s.\d; stag, sJd'; yearling. 7-id ; yearling, slippy, 5d : calf, 7'.d to 10' d ; calf, slippy, 7c,d: horse hide, 7s Gd ; horfc, sliwp.v, Gs Gd. Our next sale will be held on September 4th, 1012.

The Nrw Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. and Reduced renort as follows: We held our periodical wool, skin and hide, sale yesterday and prices all roi'iid a?, nd.vance on last sale figures. Crutehuvgc Ave re in fair demand, and a fcAV bales of good quality in our sale realised (>id. We quote : —Wcol: Crutehings, good, Ccl to fikl; medium, skl to sjd; good bag lets, 5-id to Gd ; erc.-'ibrod. seedy, 4?d to 7d ; dead, to 7d. Skins: Crossbred course, 7d to 7id; half a a'cols, Gd to Oid ; hoggets. 3ld to Gd ; pelts shorn, to lid; green skins, 2s, 2s Gd, 4'S, 4s Gd, to ss. Hides: Very Lnv offering. Co\v, slippy. 5-1 d to Gd: ox, Gd; calf skins. Oil. Tallow : In tin's, 22* to 23s 3d.