COMMERCIAL NEWS

Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21583, 20 November 1941, Page 2

COMMERCIAL NEWS

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report on tneir Te Anga sale as loilows: mere was a medium yarding ol' cattle, comprised mainly or add lines ol' station-fired Jots. lne advertised shorn welder doggets sold from lGs lud tu 17s Gd. Places were as follows. — Polled Angus deifers with calves at foot, £g lus; small 2-year Polled Angus steers, £5 lus lo £G ss; yearling liereiord steers, £4 to £1 15s: yearling Polled Angus deiTers, £3 lus to £1 ss; medium lat Hereford deifers, £G 5s to £G 12s Gd; 2-year Hereford service dulls, £lO lUs to £ll lls; doner cows, £2 to £1 15s; store Hereford COWS, £3 1 5S to £4 125 Gd. The farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report a medium yarding of cattle. The offering comprised • chiefly yearling cattle wdicd realised prices fully up lo recent quotations, store 3-year-old Shorthorn steers, £9; Polled Angus and Hereford cows with calves at foot. £5 lOs to £g 12s; yearling Hereford steers, £5 to £5 10s; small yearling Shorthorn cross steers, £3 is to £3 7s; 2-year Hereford deifers, £4 IDs to £4 17s; Jersey heirer calves, £3 lls; store cows, £2 16s lo £4 10s. sheep: Store conditioned woolly wether hoggets. 225; woolly ewe doggets, 255. CAMBRIDGE QUOTATIONS The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agencv, Company. Limited, report on their Camdrideg sale as follows: The deef entry was small in comparison with the rest'or the yarding and prices were easier than other recent sales. The advertised line or cal tie attracted buyers from other centres and these cattle were sold at prices that satisited the vendors. Fat 2-year Polled Angus steers, to £lO 12s G<l: lat 2-year Polled Angus heifers. £7 2s; prime neavy Jersey cows, £7 tu £s li.s: fat Jersey heifers. £5 12s tu £G 2s Gd: lighter Jersey cows, £4 igs tu £5 S': killabie, £2 lus to £3 18s; Jer--ev cows and calves, £3 12s to £i 7*dulls. £1 to tl 8s: 2-year Shorthorn store steers, to £9 ls; Hereford, to £9 is; Jersey yearling heifers, £G to £G Gs; dairy heifers close 1" proilt, £7 lo £9 ss. A light yarding of fat pigs came forward, the entry consisting mainly of porkers. Convpetitnm throughout was slack and the prices realised showed a siignt ca.'ing or those of recent sales. Medium baconers, £3 ;:s to £3 ios; good porkers, £2 10s to £2 18s; medium porkers, £2 2s to £2 Ss: unfinished porkers, 35s to £2; choppers. £2 7 s to £2 19s; medium stores’ igs tu 225; weaners, ss to lus Gd.