COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 June 1913, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

EKETAHUNA STOCK SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report on their Eketahuna sale as follows : A good yarding of sheep was offered to a large attendance of buyers. For all Jincs of good ewes in lamb competition was keen and nrices realised for this class of sheep showed an advance on recent sales' reports. Lambs, however, were not in such good demand, and medium to inferior sorts were much easier in price. We had a total clearance at the following list of prices: Small lambs 4s 3d to 5s 6d, medium lambs 6s 9d to 7s 6d, good lambs 8s lid to 9s 3d, aged ewes 5s 6d to Bs, fat and forward ewes to 14s, ewes in lamb 9s 4d, good mixed aged ewes in lamb 13a 7d to 1357 Bd, 2tooth wethers 15s 3d, mixed weauers 375. PONGAROA STOCK SALE. The- New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Coy., Ltd., report:—We held our usual monthly sale at. our Pongaroa yards 'on Thursday last, when we. offered a fair entry of both sheep and cattle to a big attendance of buyers. The sale was a little dull, but we managed to quit the whole of our entry, with the exception of one pen of cittle, at satisfactory prices. We wold fat and forward wethers from 15s io 15s Id, woolly lambs to 8s Gd, shorn lambs to 6s 3d, empty ewes to 8s 3d, ewes in lamb (mixed ages) to 9s, failing mouth ewe s from 5s to Bs, mixed weaner calves to 20s 6d, 20month to 2-year steers £8 14s. TAUHERENIKAU STOCK SALE. Messrs Jame s Macintosh and Co. report having hold their usual monthly sale in their Tauherenikau sale yards on Friday , v June 6th, when they offered a fair yarding of sheep and cattle which met with good competition, and practically the whole yarding changed hands at the following prices:—Woolly lambs 8s 6d, small B.F. lambs 7s 9d, fat and forward lambs 10s 6d, 2 and 4-tooth wet-lid's 13s 9d, springing heifer s (close to calving) £6 ss, £6 8s to £6 10s; springing heifers, duo factory dates, i£s 18s to £6 4s; store cows 33s 6d, forward store cows £4s Id, wenier calves 225, dairy cows (due factory dates), £4 12s, £4 15 s to £5 14s.

Our next sale will be held on Friday July 4th.

LONDON SHEEPSKIN SALES

Messrs James (Macintosh and Co. report having received the following cable message from their London agents under date of Friday:— Sheepskin.—Prices for crossbred full-wool led of fine quality advanced Jd; coarso qualities advanced from £d to id; crossbred half to threequarter woolled (fine) advanced from id to id.