STOCK TRADE PERSONALITY

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20914, 20 September 1939, Page 4

STOCK TRADE PERSONALITY

Head Waikato auctioneer for Messrs Newton King, Limited, Mr A. Smith is a comparative newcomer to the district, but is already well-known particularly in Te Awamutu, where he is stationed. Before coming to the Waikato, Mr Smith was for seven years associated with the Farmers’ Co-operative in Taranaki.

unfinished shorn wethers, 17s to 18s Gd; heavy fat hoggets, 24s to 28s/ light, 18s 6d to 21s 6d; killahle, 15s Gd to 17s; store woolly hoggets, 10s 3<J to 17s 9d; shorn store hoggets, 11s to 14s 3d; cull ewes, 5s to 9s. Pigs: Heavy baconers, £3 16s to £4 Is; medium, £3 12s to £3 15s; light, £3 5s to £3 10s; heavy porkers and buttermilk pigs, £2 15s to £3 3s; medium porkers, £2 6s to £2 12s; light, £2 2s to £2 6s; large stores, 35s to 39s 6d; small, 30s to 33s 6d; slips, 25s 6d to 30s; good weaners, 24s to 28s 6d; others, 17s 6d to 225; Tamworth sows and litters, £8 10s. Dalgety A Co., Ltd. Cattle: Prime heavy bullocks, £l3 to £ls ss; lighter, £ll 5s to £l2 7s Gd; heavy fat cows, £lO 5s to £ll 14s; lighter, £8 10s to £9 17s 6d; prime fat heifers. £9 10s to £lO 15s; heavy boners, £3 to £3 17s; medium, from £2 to £2 16s; lighter, £1 to 325. Sheep: Heavy fat wethers, 29s 6d to 32s 3d; medium do, 26s to 27s 9d; light and unfinished, 22s to 2ite; shorn wethers, 21s to 225; heavy fat ewes, 23s Gd to 25s 9d; medium do, 18s to 19s Gd; light and unfinished, 13s to 16s; shorn ewes, 15s to 16s 9d; fat hoggets, 22s to 23s 6d; medium do, 19s to 21s; store hoggets, 16s 6d to 17s 3d; shorn do, 12s 6d to 14s 6d. Pigs: Prime heavy baconers, £3 16s to £4; heavy do, £3 10s to £3 16s; medium, £3 5s to £3 10s; light do, £3 to £3 ss; buttermilk pigs and light baconers, £2 12s to £3; buttermilk pigs, £2 8s to £2 12s; heavy porkers, £2 3s to £ 28s; medium do, 38s to £2 2s; light do, 32s to 38s; choppers, £2 10s to £3 17s; store pigs, 35s to £2 4s; medium do, 30s to 355; small do, 25s to 3<)s; best slips, 23s to 28s; medium do, 18s to 225; best weaners. 2(>s to 255; others, 12s to 20s. G. W. Vercoe A Co., Ltd. Cattle.—S.H. bullocks, ex Messrs Robinson Bros., of Paterangi, to £lB 7s 6d; heavy prime Friesian bullocks, ex Messrs Taylor Bros., of Taupiri, to £18; prime medium-weight P.A. bullocks, ex the same vendors, to £ls 12s 6d; prime Hereford bullocks, ex Mr W. Cooper Smith, of Tuhikaramea, to £l6 10s; good quality lightweight P.A. and Hereford bullocks, ex Mr E. Vosper, of Tirau, to £l3 16s; P.A. and Hereford bullocks, ei Messrs Whewell Bros., of Tamahere, averaged £ll 17s 6d; extra heavy prime bullocks to £lB 7s 6d; heavy prime, £ls 10s to £l6 10s; prime mecLumweights, £l4 to £ls 2s 6d; prime light-weights, £l2 10s to £l3 15s; light, £ll to £l2 ss; small and unfinished to £lO 10s. Heavy prime Friesian cows ex Messrs Whewell’ Bros., of Tamahere, to £l3 19s; prime S.H. cows ex Mr T. M. Hall, Hamilton, to £l3 ss; prime cows and heifers ex ex Mr R. G. Griffen, of Tauvvhare, to £l2 10s; prime Jersey heifers ex the same vendor to £ll 7s 6d; prime lightweight P.A. heifers, ex Hinuera Farm, to £ll 2s 6d. Heavy prime cows, £l2 10s to £l3 19s; prime mediumweights, £ll to £l2 7s 6d; well-fin-ished lightweights, £9 15s to £lO 10s; heavy fat cows, £9 10s to £lO ss; medium-weights, to £9 ss; light, to £8 15s; prime medium-weight heifers, £l2 to £l3 ss; prime light, £lO 10s to £ll 10s; others, to £10; heavy prime Jersey heifers, £lO to £ll 7s 6d; others, to £9 15s; lightweights, to £7 10s; heavy fat Jersey cows, £8 10s to £9 10s; medium-weights, £7 10s to £8 7s 6d; light, to £7; light runners, £3 15s to £4 ss; heavy vealers, £3 to £3 10s; medium-weights, £2 10s to £2 l'8s; light, 30s to £2 ss; small calves, 15s to 255; forward condition S.H. and Friesian cows, £5 to £5 18s; others, to £4 15s; empty 2year Jersey heifers, to £3 10s; yearling Jersey heifers, to £3 14s; heavy boners, £3 15s to £4 10s; mediumweights, £3 to £3 12s 6d; light, to £2 15s; potter hulls, to £7 10s. Sheep: heavy prime wethers, 32s to 345; heavy fat wethers, 30s to 31s 9d; prime medium-weights, 28s to 29s 6d; lighter prime, 25s to 27s 6d; light weights, 23s to 24s 9d; unfinished to 225; prime maiden ewes, 26s to 27s Gd; others, to 245; heavy prime ewes, 23s to 25s 6d; prime medium-weights, 22s to 22s 9d; lighter, 18s to 21s; light and unfinished, 13s to 17s; heavy prime hoggets, 27s to 295; heavy fat hoggets, 24s to 265; mediumweights, 22s to 23s 6d; light, 17s to 21s.

Pigs: Heavy prime baconers, £4 to £4 2s; heavy, £3 16s to £3 19s; med-ium-weights, £3 10s to £3 15s; light, £3 3s to £3 8s; heavy porkers, £2 15s to £3; medium-weights, £2 5s to £2 12s; light, 35s to £2 is; choppers, to £3 7s; good stores, £2 3s to £2 6s; others, 38s to £2 2s; best slips, 3is to 375; smaller, 30s to 335; best weaners, 26s to 29s Gd; good, 23s to 255; others, 18s to 225. Wright, Stephenson A Co., Ltd. Sheep: Ewes on account of Mr H.

Riddell, Taupiri, 255; prime fat ewes, 22s Gd to 255; medium fat ewes, 19s Gd to 225; prime shorn ewes, 18s 6d to 20s; prime lat wethers, 2is to 2Gs Gd; medium fat wethers, 22s Gd to 23s 9d; fat wethers, 19s 6d to 21s 9d; prime fat hoggets, 20s to 22s 6d; medium fat hoggets, 18s Gd to 19s 3d; killahle hoggets, 15s 6d to 17s 6d; wether hoggets, 9s to 14s 3d. Cattle.—Prime fat cows and heifers, £6 10s to £8; medium fat cows, £5 10s to £G ss; fat cows £5 to £5 12s 6d; heavy boner cows, £4 10s to £5; medium, £3 15s to £4 7s 6d; lighter, £2 12s 6d to £3; culls, down to 15s; vealers, good sorts, 30s to £2 2s; medium sorts, 19s 6d to 27s 6d; smaller sorts, 10s to 17s 6d; yearling Jersey hulls, £7 7s to £8 Bs. Pigs: Porkers, £2 5s to £2 15s; lighter porkers, 35s to £2 ss; large store pigs, 28s to 355; medium store pigs, 22s Gd to 275; smaller sorts. 18s to 2Qs. Newton King, Ltd. Sheep: Best fat ewes, 25s to 25s 6d; others, 21s to 245; meaty woolly hoggets, 17s Gd to 18s; others, lGs to 17s; new season's lambs, 25s to 29s 6d. Cattle: Heavy boners, 13 to £4 ss; medium, £2 to £3; light, 19s to 38s. Pigs: Heavy baconers, £3 8s to £3 IDs; medium, £3 4s to £3 7s; light, £3 is to £3 3s; heavy porkers, £2 15s to £2 18s; medium, £2 10s to £2 14s; light, £2 5s to £2 8s; large stores, 35s to £2; slips, 30s to 34s 6d; best weaners, 22s to 265; others, 18s 6d to 20s. MORRINSVILLE BULL BALE The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Company, Limited, Morrinsville, reports having held its annual Morrinsville pedigree and grade bull sale on Monday. An exceptionally large yarding came forward consisting of a medium- entry of pedigree bulls, a large yarding of 2-year-old grade hulls, and a large yarding of yearling grade bulls. There wae a large and representative attendance of buyers, and a most successful sale eventuated. Prices for service hulls throughout were in advance of those at last season's Morrinsville sale. Pedigree bulls also sold exceptionally well. The advertised entry of 2-year Jersey grade bulls, on account of Mr D. G. K. Munro, of Tahuna, realised from £l3 to £ls 10s; yearling bulls on account of the same vendor sold from £9 to £lO. An outstanding consignment of grade Jersey yearling bulls, on account of Mr L. P. Svvarbrick, Kiwitahi, elicited keen competition and sold from £lO to £ls 10s, the whole consignment averaging the high figure of £l3 10s. Quotations:— Two-year-old grade bulls; Good quality Jersey ggrvice bulls, £l2 to £l6 10s; medium quality Jersey hulls, £9 10s to £lt 10s; other Jersey bulls, £7 10s to £9 ss; grade Ayrshires, £l2 10s to £l4 10s; grade Shorthorns, £8 10s to £ll 10s. Yearling grade bulls: Choice Jersey hulls. £ll 10s to £ls 10s; medium quality Jersey bulls, £9 10s to £11; smaller. Jersey bulls, £7 10s to £9 ss; Ayrshire bulls, £7 to £9 10s. Pedigree bulls; Four-year-old Jersey hull, “ Croydon Bruce," sold on account of Mr iH. V. Morgan, Orini, 30 gns; two yearling Jersey bulls, on account of the same vendor, 124 to 14 gns; yearling hull on account of Mr G. Petersen, Morrinsville, 124 gns 4-year-old Friesian bull, “ Monavale H. Wodcote,” on account of Mr S. A. Flintoff, Matangi, 18 gns; two-year Jersey bull, on account of F. L. Trapski, Morrinsville, 15 gns. Dalgety A Cp., LtLd. Dalgety & Company, Limited, report on their Morrinsville hull sale, held on Monday, as follows: A good yarding of hulls of all dairy breeds sold steadily at medium prices. Aged pedigree Jersey bulls made 10 to 124 gns; 3-year pedigree Jersey hulls, 9 to 104 gns; 2-vear grade Jersey bulls, £l3 10s to £ls; others, £8 10s to £lO 15s; yearling grade Jersey bulls, £8 to £ll 10s; smaller sorts, £3 10s to £3 15s; 2-year Shorthorn grade bulls, £G 10s to £9; yearly Shorthorn grade bulls. £4 to £5 10s; 2-year Holstein grade bulls, £G 10s to to £8 15s; 2-year Ayrshire grade bulls, £lO to £l2 10s; yearling Ayrshire grade bulls, £5 to £6 15s.