COMMERCIAL

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20505, 23 May 1938, Page 13

COMMERCIAL

PIO PIO STOCK SALE Messrs Dalgety and Company, Lim ited, report having held their usual fortnightly sale at Pio Pio, when a medium yarding ol' cattle was offered to an attendance of local and outside buyers. Cattle sold well under keen competition though two lines of steer calves were passed in, as prices did not come up to vendors’ reserves. Extra heavy fat P.A. cows made £3 2s; heavy, £8 10s to £8 12s: medium, £7 to £8 2s; light fat .Jersey cows, £4 its, forward condition, £3 to £3 10s; P.A. breeding cows, rw. P.A. hull, mixed ages, £5 15s to £6; aged Hereford cows, r.w. P.A. bull, £4 ss; medium 18-months P.A. heifers, r.w.b.. £4 15s: good Hereford steer calves, £4 18s; good P.A. steer calves, £4 13s to £4 16s; medium 18-months P.A. steers. £5 5s to £5 Us; well bred P.A. heifer calves. £3 7s; good P.A. heifer calves. £2 18s: well grown Hereford heifer calves. £2 17s 6d: small m s. P.A. calves, £2 10s. TURANGA-O-MOANA SALE The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company. Ltd., report having held a most successful clearing sale at Turanga-o-moana on Friday on account of Mr W. P. Holmes. The offering comprised the herd of 140 cows and 200 Taranaki and local-bred heifers. The cattle came forward in exceptionally good order and met with

keen competition, buyers attending from all parts of the surrounding districts. The 110 sound cows of the herd averaged £9 10s. Thirty hoifers bred by the vendor made the good average of £ll, while the advertised j line of Taranaki heifers averaged £lO I 15s, and another line of locally-bred ; heifers, while not so forward and | well-grown, met with brisk competi- | tion. The range of prices was a* j follows:—Good quality Jersey cows, (July and August calvers £l2 to £l3 j 10s, later calvers £9 to £ll 104, threeI quartered cows £5 to £7, well-grown I forward Jersey heifers £l2 to £l3 10s, I more backward £9 10s to £ll 10s, heifers £7 to £8 los, 16 yearI ling heifers £5 10s, 11 yearling heJfj ers £4 9s. Horses: 6-year bay mare |in foal £4B 10s, 3-year bay mare Jn • foal £32 10s, -bay filly £3O, 3-year hay mare £25.