MARKET REPORTS

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LXIII, Issue 6498, 10 January 1939, Page 1

MARKET REPORTS

DUVAUCHELLE STOCK SALE A Smaller Yarding The holidays afiected the yarding at the monthly stock sale at Duvauchelle on Friday. There were lets than two hundred head yarded and most of the yarding was sold at satisfactory prices. Two fat steers at £14 7s 6d from Gracia's Estate topped the market. Fat cattle sold well and at an advance on Addington rates Several pens of- three-year-old store heifers' in forward condition also sold well, while store cows were al§o in demand. The range of prices was as follows :— Fat steers £11 7s 6d to 14 7s 6d. Fat cows £5 12s' 6d to £10. Fat Heifers £4 17s 6d to £9 17s 6d. Three-year-old heifers £6 10s to £6 12s 6d. Store Cows £4 to £6 ss. The following sales are reportedMessrs Pyne, Gould Guinness Ltd, sold on account Gracia's Estate two fat steers £14 7s 6d. 1 at £12 17s 6. .d, 8 heifers at £8 to £9 17s 6d, Mrs H. Giddens, 2 heifers £5 10s and £6 10s; J. Haines, 4 cows £3 12s 6d to £5 15s; on account clients 13 three-year-old heifers £6 10s, 10 store cows £6 ss. Messrs H. Matson and Co. sold on account W. Harris, cow £5 12s 6d, W. Graham, 2 cows £5 17s 6d; P. Harris, 2 cows at £7 2s 6d and £7 10s, 2 at £5 12s 6d, 1 at £8 ss; A. W. Coffin, steer £13 10s, 2 at £11 7s 6d, 2 heifers £9 2s 6d, 3 at £8 17s 6d; W. Rhodes, cow £4; H. Tizzard, cow £9 ss; A. Cunningham, cow £7 5s and several store lines on account of clients , N.Z. Farmers' Co-op association Ltd. sold on account of Mrs Geo Mould, 2 heifers £8 10s, cow £7 2s 6d; R. Shadbolt, heifer £8 ss; L. Craw, 2 steers* £12 15s, 3 at £11 12s 6d, F. Kearney, 2 heifers £8; Mrs Hewitt, cow £8 12s 6d, 1 at £6; .V. Pidgeon, 2 cows £10, and £8 10s, 2 at £8 2s 6d, heifer £8 7s 6d, 2 at £7 7s 6d, F. W. Williams, 5 cows £4 17s 6d to £7 15s; on account clients 13 Three-year-old heifers £6 12s 6d, store cows £4 to £6 ss, bull £5 10s.