COMMERCIAL.

Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 43, 12 September 1911, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report : CLEARING SALE. At Mr C. Rose's sale, near Cambridge, on the 28th ult, medium draught horses made from £22 10s to £3O, 3 year steers £5, zVz year steers £6 10s, store pigs £1 ss, implements and sundries at usual rates. At Whatawhata, on the same day, on account of Mr J. Calder, light express horses made £l3 to £2O lOs, buggy horses £5 to £7 ss, light draught foal £7 ss, 1 year light fillies by Westmere £6 15s to £B, dairy cows £7 5s to £8 IDs, calves £l 9s, furniture and sundries at good prices. OHAUPO SALE. At Ohaupo, on Tuesday, 28th ult., we yarded 2800 sheep, mainly hoggets, and 420 head of cattle. There was keen competition throughout, and all stock sold at following prices : Mixed woolly hoggets I2s Id to Ijs iod, ewe hoggets bred at Richmond Downs 16s 4cL (,A ler ewe hoggets 14s Qd to 15s, 2 and 4 tooth ewes in lamb 16s, f.m. ewes 6s 3d to 8s 3d, fat wethers 18s Qd, dairy cows £4 to £7, springing heifers £5 lOs to £7, yearling steers £2 I2s to £3 Is, mixed yearlings £2 9s 6d to £2 16s, smaller yearlings £l 18s to £2 4s, 2 to year old steers £4 lOs, fat heifers £6 is, empty heifers £2 16s to £3 3s. TE KUITI SALE. At Te Kuiti on Wednesday, 30th, ult., over 400 head of cattle and 300 sheep came forward, and a total clearance v/as effected. Prices : Fat cows £6 lOs to £6 15s, 2 year old empty heifers £3 7s to £3 I2s, 15 to 18 months steers £3 8s to £3 TSs, yearling steers £2 18s to £3 ss, smaller steers £2 lOs to £2 12s, yearling heifers up to £2 18s, smaller heifers £2 3s to £2 7s, mixed yearlings £2 lOs, dairy cows £5 lOs to £7 17s 6d, springing heifers up to £7 2s 6d, backward heifers £3 17s 6d to £4 lOs, woolly hoggets 9s 2d to I2s. HAMILTON SALE. There v/as a medium entry of fat and store cattle, also sheep and pigs at our Hamilton sale on Thursday 31st ult. Prices : Fat cows' made £5 to £7 15s, small fat steers £7 7s 6d, two-year-old empty heifers ■ £3 lOs to £4 4s, mixed yearlings £2 2s 6d to £2 I2s, Holstein heifers at profit £lO, dairy cows £5 to £7, fat ewes 14s 6d, hoggets 13s 6d, weaner pigs lOs to 14s, slips and porkers 19s to £l 7s. CAMBRIDGE SALE.

At Cambridge on Friday, Sept. I. we penned 80 fat cattle, and 550 stores, 1100 sheep and 200 pigs. There was a large attendance of buvers from all parts of Waikato, Paeroa, Tauranga and King Country, and a keen demand existed for all classes. All the cattle sold at most satisfactory prices, and nearly all the sheep, but pigs were rather dull of sale. Prices: Fat steers £8 I2s 6d to £9 lßs, fat cows £6 10s to £7 ss, heifers £5 /s 6d to £6 lOs, three-year-old steers £5 10s to £6, two-year-old steers £4 to £4 9s, yearling steers £3 to £3 Bs, mixed vearlings £2 15s to £3 Bs, smaller yearlings £1 19s to £2 lOs, two-year-old empty heifers £3 lOs to £4, yearling Jersey cross, heifers, £3 lOs to £3 12s, Shorthorn cross heifers £2 14s to £3 ss, empty cows £3 to £4 7s 6d according to condition, woolly hoggets I2s 6d to 14s lid, small hoggets ios iod, forward wethers 16s sd,

four-tooth ewes in lamb 15s 9d, store pigs £1 7s 6d tof I I2s, slips 17s to £1 is, weaners I2s to 18s. DAIRY COW SALE. We held a sale of dairy cows and heifers in the Cambridge yards on Saturday, Sept. 2, for which a good entry came forward. Buyers were present for good young sound cows, and well grown forward heifers. Prices : Dairy cows (whole dairy on account Mr J. Fleming), £9 lOs to £l3, other vendors £7 5s to £l2 lOs, best grown springing heifers £8 to £lO 15s, others £5 5s to £7