COMMERCIAL.

Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 16, 9 June 1911, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report :- —■

At Otorohanga on Friday last 20 months to 2 year steers made £3 7s to £3 15s, medium calves £1 8s to £1 13s, fleshy bulls £3 I2s 6d to £5. We held a clearing sale on Monday last at Te Raa, on account of Mr W. R. Perry, when cows carrying second calf brought £5 17s 6d to £8 ss, a few others £4 to £5, 47 heifers in calf £5 lOs to £7, 20 month steers £3 18s,' calves £l 15s 6d, draught gelding £39, yearling colt £lllos, buggy £34, dray £l4 lOs. We held our usual monthly sale at Ngaruawahia on Friday last, 2nd inst., when we yarded 420 head of cattle. There was good competition throughout, buyers being present from Upper and Lower Waikato, Mangare, Tuakau and Drury. Almost a total clearance was effected at following rates: 3% year old steers in fresh condition L 5 19s to L 6 ss, 3 year old do. Lsto L 5 6s, 2Y2 year old do. L 4 5s to L 4 ios, 18 months to 2 year old do. L 3 to L 3 9s, fat cows L 5 lOs to L 6 lis, empty cows and heifers in fresh condition L 3 lOs to L 4, store cows L2 12s to L2 18s, 2% year old heifers in calf L 4, calves Ll 4s to Ll I2s, grown bulls L 3 12s 6cl to L 4 lOs, dairy cows up to L 5 lOs, woolly hoggets 8s 3d. Twenty-three acres of turnips at Horotiu realized L6O. The Farmers' Auctioneering Co. reports: — HAMILTON.

At Hamilton yards on June Ist we had a full yarding of 2170 sheep and 480 head of cattle. Too many fat sheep came forward and prices. were easier. Fat cattle were required and sold well, as also did store cattle. Dairy heifers were lower than at last few sales. Fat ewes lis 6d, to 16s, the latter price being obtained for very heavy sheep; fat wethers 15s to 17s 3d, but no

heavy weights were in ; fat lambs ios to I2s, forward medium sized weathers 13s lid to 145.8 d, good lambs 7s 6d to 9s, small store lambs 4s 3d to 6s, small fat steers £7 5s to £8 lOs, medium sized and medium fattened £8 15s to £9 15s, heavy fat cows £7l2s 6d, msd'um weight cows £5 to £6, fresh 3 year steers £5 15s, 18 month steeds £3 7s 6d to £3 I2s6d, good calves 38s to 435, extra good £2 Bs, heavy fat calves £2 15s, Holstein and Jersey cross heifers in calf £5 5 S > to £6 6s but these were only medium sized cattle, Shorthorn cross heifers in calf £4 lOs to L 5 lOs, most of the heifers were late calves, dairy cows L 4 lOs L 5 5 S > bulls L2 lOs to L 4. We also offered 22 %acre sections of land at Kirikiriroa on behalf of the N. Z. Dairy Association and sold 19 of them at prices ranging from L 25 to LBO. CLEARING SALE. At Te Awamutu on May 27th, we had a clearing sale on behalf of Mr R. C. Smyth, or rather we advertised it as a clearing sale, but it was hardly correct. We sold 450 woolly ewe and wether hoggets at 8s 6d, and 30 2 and 2% year steers at £4 to L 4 16s. The balance of the stock the owner reserved.