STOCK MARKET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 June 1939, Page 3

STOCK MARKET

EKETAHUNA SALE. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as follows:—Our autumn cattle fair was combined with the weekly sale today and entries came forward up to advertised numbers. The yarding comprised a small entry of sheep and dairy cattle and a fair entry of station cattle. The market for sheep remained unchanged whilst dairy cattle met with a slow sale. However, interest centred mainly in the station cattle, the entry attracting buyers from Woodville, Pahiatua, Wairarapa and local districts. Few pens of attractive cattle were yarded, but nevertheless keen competition prevailed throughout the sale and we can report prices as indicating this fair to be the best held in this district for this year. On behalf of the Turnor Estate, we submitted a line of particularly well-grown 20-mos P.A. steers in real good order which sold out under keen competition at the very satisfactory price of £5 2s. For grown cattle, Mr J. Moore topped the sale with a pen of Shorthorn bullocks which made £7 after free bidding. Taken throughout it was generally admitted, considering the class of the cattle submitted, to be an excellent sale comparing prices with those realised at recent fixtures. We report sales as follows: A/c J. Moore, S.H. bullocks, £7; a/c Turnor Estate, 20-mos P.A. steers, £5 2s; fat P.A. cows, £6 ss; light fat heifers, £5 ss; store cows, £3 3s; a/c H. Higginson, 20mos P.A. steers, medium, £3 13s; a/c N. P. Goodin, 2Ayear P.A. steers, £4 7s 6d; small 20mos do, £3; a/c W. Edmonds, P.A. cows r.w.b., £3; light fat cows, £4 7s 6d to £4 10s; a/c other vendors, weaner P.A. steers, small, 36s to 325; do heifers, 255; store cows, ex dairy, £2 10s to £3 Is; Jersey cow and vealer, £3 18s; dairy cattle, heifers r.w.b., £6 10s; sheep, aged ewes r.W.r., 3s 7d.

DAIRY SALE. MR C. E. HODDER’S HERD. Messrs Wright, Stephenson & Co.. Ltd., report having held a sale of dairy cows and heifers on behalf of Mr E. S. Hodder, Lower Valley, yesterday. There was a good attendance and prices were better than expectations, Butterfat records and calving dates were given as each cow entered the sale ring, and the top cows made very good money—one or two reaching £l6, While several made over £lO. The two and three springing heifers made up to £8 5s and the majority made between £6 10s and £7. The yearling heifers, which were a very good lot, made £3 10s.