COMMERCIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3241, 10 June 1911, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

THE MATAWHERO YARDS

•■A PHENOMENAL SALE.’'

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report on stock sale held cn Thursday, Bth inst: This was a phenomenal sale for winter, the whole of the yarding space for both cattle and sheep being heavily taxed. The attendance was fairly numerous and a very large proportion of the stock yarded found buyers. Sheep. —'Our entry comprised 6,667, of which we sold 6108. A considerable proportion of our entry • was wet Iters. These were hardly as well competed for as in the last few sales, but still sold well. Hoggets were in demand, but empty ewes, and aged ewes in lamb were difficult to place. Wethers. —We sold a line of 1730. on account of Mr Wilfred Perry, Arakihi, at 13s; other lines made from 12s Id to 12s 8d according to size and weight of wool. Hoggets, small, made 6s lid to 7s 7d, whilst for really well-grown hoggets we secured 10s to 10s 6d, mixed 2-tooths, small, 7s 4d to 9s 9d, better lines 10s 6d to 12s, empty ewes, potters, 3s 6d to 3s 7d. medium lines os 6d to 6s, empty ewes carrying more condition 6s 6d to 7s 6d. Ewes in lamb, culls 4s 6d, medium lines of 5 and 6 year old 8s 9d to 9s 6d, 4-tooth ewes in lamb 12s 6d. In the fat pens we sold ewes at from 10s Id to 11s, ewes and wethers mixed up to 13s lOd. Cattle. —We yarded 300 and disposedl of 216. The market was slack for beef. We sold beef-steers at £6 10s to £7 10s, according to weight, medium cows £4 15s. ’ In the store pens the demand was not so active for fullgrown bulocks, but lines up to., two-year-old of both steers and heifers sold under fair competition. Our sales comprised 18-months steers £3 15s to £4 2s. 2-vear-old's £4 2s 6d to £4 16s, 3-year-olds £5 15s. ' Forward bullocks, with a sprinkling of fats £6 ss, mixed weaners, bucket fed, 30s to 355, mixed yearlings £3, dairy heifers. £3 17s 6d, herd cows £2 15s to £2 17s 6d in low condition, in fresh forward condition £3 17s 6d, cows and calves £4 12s 6d. We penned 76' pigs, and all sold under brisk competition. There appears to be a good deal of pig feed about at the present time. .Weaners made 13s 6d, slips from 18s to 225, whilst good store pigs realised from 26s to 365.