STOCK SALES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 22 March 1928, Page 4

STOCK SALES.

WESTFIELD MARKETS.

A GOOD SELLING DAY.

RECENT RATES MAINTAINED.

Though the yarding of beef cattle at Westfield yesterday was somewhat larger than has been the case recently, late values were fully maintained. Both sheep and lambs also sold readily at previous quotations and the Fame remark applies to pigs, which are meeting a very good demand just now. Calves, on the other hand, were in over supply and values eased. The range of prices compared with those ruling the previous week was as follow: — Tills week. Last week. BEEF (per 1001b.)— Extra choice ox. 3.1/ 35/ Choice and prime -2/ to 34/6 31/ to 34/ Choice* nnd prime cow anil heifer 1:7/ to 20/ 23/ to 28/

ALFRED BUCKLAND AND SONS.

Alfred Buckland and Sons, Limited, report:—We penned beef to the number of 360 head, ns Against 28G head at last Wednesday's sale, comprising 178 steers and 188 cows and heifern. There was a keen demand throughout and last week's advance was fully sustained. Extra choice ox sold to £1 15/ per 1001b; choice and prime, £1 12/ to £1 14/; secondary and plain, £19/ to £1 11/; prime young cow and heifer beef, £ 1 6/ to £19/; ordinary cow beef, £1 1/ to £1 5/; heavy prime steers, £14 to £1.5 5/j 24 nicc quality steers from Mr. W. Vosper, Dingley Dell, Cambridge, averaged £14 0/3; lighter prime steers, £12 to £13 15/; light prime, £10 to £11 17/6; small and unfinished, £8 10/ to £9 17/0; extra heavy prime young cows and heifers. £10 to £10 17/6; two extra good cows from Waikato made £11 17/0; heavy J)rime cows and hoifers, £8 to £9 17/6; ighter prime, £6 10/ to £7 17/6; other tillable cows, £4 15/ to £6 7/6. The sheep pena were moderately filled, with a nice cluhh of mutton. There was a keen demand with values very firm. Extra heavy prime wethers made £1 13/ to £1 15/, the latter price for wethers from Mr. H. A. Robertson, Mangere; heavy prime wethers, £19/ to £1 12/; medium to heavy prime, £1 7/6 to £1 8/9; light to medium prime, £1 6/ to £1 7/3; unfinished, £13/ to £1 5/0; extra heavy prime young ewes. £16/ to £1 7/9; heavy prime ewes, £14/ to £1 5/9; lighter prime, £12/ to £1 3/9; other killable ewes, 18/ to £1 1/9; other ewes, 11/ to 16/6: (1093 sheep sold.) Lambs were penned to the number of 722 and sold at ruling prices. Extra heavy prime lambs mado £19/ to £1 10/6; heavy prime, £1 8/ to £1 7/6; lighter prime, £1 3/ to £1 4/9; light prime, £1 1/ to £1 2/0; store lambs, 17/ to £1. There was a fairly heavy yarding of calves, values for all classes easing considerably on lasti week's improved quotations. Runners made £3 2/6 to £5 12/6; heavy vealers, £3 3/ to £4 4/i medium, £2 14/ to £3 8/; light, £ 1 15/ to £2 13/; rough and plain, 9/ to £14/; small and fresh-dropped, 3/ to £1 10/. (208 sold.) We had about an average entry of fat pigs. With the exception of verweight baconers all classes sold readily at fully last week's advanced prices. Extra heavy choppers made £4 to £4 15/; lighter, £2 10/ to £3 12/; extra heavy prime baconers, up to £4 12/; heavy baconers, £4 6/ to £4 10/; medium, £2 8/ to £2 12/; light, £1 18/ to £3 11/; heavy porkers, £2 16/ to £3; medium, £2 8/ to £2 12/; light, £1 18/ to £2 4/; small and unfinished, £1 11/ to £1 15/. No goodframed stores were offered. Medium stores made £13/; slips, 8/ to 12/; weaners, 4/ to 7/. (355 pigs sold.)

LOAN AND MERCANTILE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., reports:—Beef was penned in average numbers. Competition was again keen for choice and prime ox, and values were firm, at last week's quotations. Fat cows and heifers improved in value. Extra choice ox sold to 35/ per 1001b; choice and prime, 32/ to 34/0; ordinary and plain, 28/ to 31/; prime young cow and heifer beef, 27/ to 29,/; ordinary cow beef, 24/ to 26/; heavy prime steers, £12 17/6 to £14 10/; lighter grime, £11 to £12 15/; light prime, £9 to £10 15/; unfinished and small, £7 10/ to £8 15/; extra heavy prime young cows and heifers, £10 to £11 2/6; heavy prime, £8 to £9 10/; lighter, £6 15/ to £7 15/; cows and heifers, £5 to £0 10/. Sheep were yarded in average numbers. Competition was again keen, with yalues very firm at late rates. Extra heavy prime wethers made £112/ to £1 14/; heavy prime, £1 10/ to £1 11/9; medium prime, £1 8/0 to £1 9/9; light prime, £1 7/ to £1 8/3; small and unfinished, £1 4/6 to £1 0/9; extra heavy prime ewes, £1 7/ to £1 8/0; heavy prime, £1 5/6 to £1 0/9; medium prime, £1 3/ to £1 5/3; light prime, £1 1/ to £1 2/0; inferiorly fatted, 9/ upwards. Lambs were penned in large numbers and sold readily at late values. Extra heavy prime made £1 8/0 to £1 10/9; heavy prime, £l 0/ to £18/3; medium prime, £1 4/ to £1 5/9; light prime, £1 to £1 3/9; unfinished, best, 15/ to 17/6; others, 12/ to 14/9. Pigs were penned in smaller numbers, values being firm at' late quotations. Choppers sold at £2 to £3 13/; heavy and medium baconers, £4 8/ to £4 12/; light baconers and heavy porkers, £3 10/ to £4 0/; medium porkers and light porkers, £2 18/ to £3 14/; smal land unfinished porkers, £2 to £2 16/. Store pigs were penned in average numbers, values being at late quotations. Large stores made £1 to £1 0/;, slips, 10/ to 18/; weaners, 3/ to 12/. Calves were penned in average numbers, values being on a par with late quotations. A specially well-done runner from Mr. Tom. Mason, Olorit, made £9, and was purchased by Mr. John Rowe, butcher, Newmarket. This is the highest price for a runner paid at Westfield for a number of years. Runners made £3 to £5 10/, and *<9 for an extra choice heifer; heavy £ 4 , to £4 15 /; medium, £3 8/ to , £2 18 / to £3 6/; smaller, n/♦ Jo f/ /» snail and fresh dropped, <V to £2 4/; rough calves, 15/ to £1 10/. DALQETY AND COMPANY.

i>o?t alg ßlLf"T», Co,npany ' report. Beef. There was an average yard'lHi °l °-f A a Ro °d yarding of eows arid heifers. Competition was very keen for nil dames, with values very firm Extra choice, ox sold, to 35/ per 1001b; choice and t>rime, 32/ to 34/; just killable, 28/ ♦„ 31/prime young cow and heifer beef 27/*k 20/; just killable, 24/ to 26/. Bh«p:The was an average yarding, values being very firm for both wethers and ewes, and in odd cases the latter were better Eztm heavy prime wethers made £1 10/ to £1 12/; heavy prime, £1 8/ to £1 »/fl ; med . iXi £t aVw £i *P<> »»a»lighter. 1,9/6 to £1 1/9; other ewes, 17/ to JO/. Lambs: An average yarding, there being little or no change in values. Heavy prime lambs mad» £1-7/ to £19/6- m J. ium, £1 4/ to £1 #/®J BghX

£13/; plain 16/# to 18/0. Calves: A fair yarding, which aold readily at last week's prices. Runners made £3 8/ to £5 0/: heavy vealers, £3 10/ to £4 5/; medium, i? I°, £ f 3 8 ( ; J lght ' pto £2 15/; rough, £ 1 5/, fresh-dropped, 3/ to £1 6/. Pigs came forward in fair numbers, prices being Choppers made £2 12/ to £3 10/; heavy baconers, £4 4/ to £4 10/; medium baconers, £3 10/ to £4; lieht baconers, £3 to £39/; heavy porkers, £2 X 10/ i • 19/I 9 / '• m , edlum porkers, £2 5/ to porkers, £1 18/ to £2 3/

IN THE WAIKATO. Reports on the weekly stock sale at Frankton yesterday are:— I\ew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited.-Fat and store cattle came forward in good supply and met with a strong demand. Fat sheep were not so plentiful and sold at advanced r ?. . * , Store lambs and breeding ewes elicited keen competition, and improved m value. The general tone of the market was buoyant, all stock selling readily. We quote:—Prime fat cows, £8 8/ to £9 6/; plain fat cows. £5 12/ to £6 4/; cows in tor ward condition, £4 4/ to £5 1/; yourig small-framed store cows; £2 10/ to £3 1/veal calves, £2 1/ to £3 2/6; small Jersey heifers, £0 12/6; dairy cows at profit, £8 to £10 15/; fat wethers, £1 10/; fat ewes, £1 4/2; fat lambs, £1 8/. A full yarding of fat pigs realised fully last week s rates and stores were firmer. Top x.o' S ,n/ pigs made £4 2/ t0 £i °/ medium, £3 10/ to £3 17/; heavy porkers, £3 2/ to £3 8/; medium, £2 14/ to £2 17/; light, £2 2/ to £2 9/; unfinished porkers, £1 12/ to £1 18/; store porkers, 19/ to £1 8/; slips, 8/6 to 13/6; weaners, 4/ to 7/. Dalgety and Company, Limited.—There was a good entry of beef, which sold at late high rates, choice cow and heifer selling at equal to 28/ to 30/ per 1001b, according to quality. There was a fair entry of store steers, which met with a good sale at late rates. We sold 3-year-old steers at £5 2/6; 2-year-old steers, £5 14/; 18months steers, £4. These was a moderate yarding of fat sheep which were very firm at late rates. Best ewes made 25/; heavy wethers, 30/ to 32/; woolly fat lambs, 28/. There was a large yarding of store sheep and lambs, which met with a keen demand at an advance on late rates Our yarding totalled 2450. A line of 167 mixed aged good-framed ewes made 29/; 360 4 and 5-year ewes, 24/9 to 24/; 150 2tooth ewes, 30/; 147 4 and 5-year ewes, 21/7; 90 cull ewes, 13/; 414 ewe lambs, 18/6 to 19/; pen ewe lambs (shorn), 17/; pen wether lambs, 14/11; 370 wether lambs, 15/7; 120 wether lambs, 12/6; pen cull lambs, 8/8; 157 shorn lambs, 13/3; Romney rams. 1 to IVigns; Southdown rams, 7gns. There was an average yarding of pigs, which sold at late rates. OTHER COUNTRY SALES. ■The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., reports:—We held sales during the past week at Westfield, Waiuku (cattle and pigs), Kaukapakapa, I apakura and one clearing sale, all classes of cattle selling readily at late rates. Fat pigs at Waiuku were keenly competed for. with values easily on a par with Westfield quotations. Dairy cows and heifers, best, close to profit, made £10 15/ to £13 10/; others, £8 to £10 10/; backward springers, £5 to £7 15/; aged cows and inferior heifers, £2 10/ to £4 15/; bulls, £2 10/ to £8 15/; empty cows, £2 to £3 10/; boner cows, £2 10/ to £4 10/; yearling to 18-months heifers, suitable for dairy purposes, £3 to £6 5/; weaner heifer calves, best, £1 5/ to £3 5/; others, 10/ to £1; weaner steer calves, best, £1 5/ to £2; others, 6/ to £1; yearling to 18-months steers, £2 10/ to £3 15/; 2 to 2%-year steers, £4 to £5; 3 to 3%-year steers, £5 5/ to £6 5/; 4 to 4%-year steers, £6 10/ to £7 2/6; grown steers in forward condition, £7 5/ to £8 18/. Alfred BucklancL and Sons, Ltd., report: During the week we held sales at Pukekohe, Westfield, Helensville, Pokeno and Runciman, also a pig sale at Waiuku. There were average yardings and a good inquiry for all classes, late values ruling at all centres. Best dairy cows made £12 to £15; extra to £17 10/; good cows, £9 to £11 15/; others, £5 10/ to £8 10/; aged and inferior', £2 10/ to £5; best springing heifers, £9 to £11; good heifers, £7 to £8 15/; smaller and backward heifers, £4 to £6 10/; heavy fat cows and heifers, £7 to £9 15/; lighter fat cows and heifers, £5 to £6 17/6; fat steers, £9 10/ to £13 15/; boner cows, £2 10/ to £4 15/; empty young cows and heifers, £3 to £4 10/; store cows, £1 10/ to £2 17/6; 18month to two-year-old, in-calf dairy heifers, £4 to £6 10/; other heifers, £2 10/ to £3 17/6; good calves, £2 to £2 10/; smaller calves, £1 5/ to £1 15/; small and weedy calves, 15/ to £14/; cows with calves, £4 15/ to £7; fresh-conditioned four to four and a-half-year-old steers, £7 5/ to £84/; three to four-year-old steers, £5 10/ to £7; two to three-year-old steers, £4 10/ to £5 10/; yearling to 18-month-old steers, £2 15/ to £4 7/6; heavy bulls, £6 to £8 5/; sound young herd bulls, £4 to £7 7/; other bulls, £1 10/ to £3 15/. There was a keen sale for all fat pigs at late advanced rates. Store pigs are dull of sale.

• armer »' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, .held its usual Ngatea sale on Tuesday. There was a medium yarding of fat and store cattle. Values ruled much on a par with other sales. Quotations were:—Fat cows. £6 6/ \?, £7 ,i « hter weights, £5 7/ to £5 15/; unfinished, £4 2/ to £5 2/0; stores, £2 16/ to £3 19/; heavy bulls to £7 14/; lighter, £3 IS/ to £4 17/. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report having held their fortnightly stock sale at Te Puke on Tuesday, when there was a good yarding of cattle. A full clearance warf effected under fair competition. Forward good prime bullocks made £10 to £10 18/%hter bullocks, £9 to £10; fresh-con-ditioned 3-year steers, £5 15/ to £7 5/; 18-months steers, to £3 15/; fat cows, £6 to £7 5/; medium weight cows, £5 to £0; fresh-conditioned cows and heifers, £4 to £4 15/; plain cows, £3 to £4; heifers in calf, £3 to £3 5/; weaner calves, £1 to £1 13/; weaner heifer calves, 16/ to £15/; light bulls, £3 to £5. Weaner pigs made 5/ to 10/. MATAMATA STOCK BALE. The Farmers' Auctioneering Co., Ltd., held their fortnightly stock sale at Matamata yesterday. There was a big yarding of beef and store cattle, and prices were firm at late rates. There were extra heavy entries of pigs. Fats and porkers sold well, while there was a decided improvement in prices for weaners and stores. Prices were:— Cattle.—Heavy fat cows, £8 4/ to £10 5/; medium, £6 10/ to £8 1/; lighter, £5 5/ to £0 7/; forward conditioned cows, £3 7/0 to £4 12/0; stores, £2 9/ to £3 14/; boners, £1 to £1 15/; best Jersey calves, £3 1/ to £3 13/; smaller, £1 12/ to £2 15/; Shorthorn heifer calves, £1 12/ to £1 19/; good quality Shorthorn calves, £2 13/; good quality springer heifers, £7 10/ to £9 10/; potter bulls, £3 5/ to £6. Sheep.—Shorn store lambs,. 11/9 to 13/3; full-mouthed ewes, 14/0. Pigs.—Heavy baconers, £4 1J to £4 9/; medium, £3 13/ to £3 19/; lighter, £2 19/ to £3 5/; heavy porkers, £2 9/ to £2 13/; medium, £2 2/ to £2 5/; lighter, £1 9/ to £1 15/1 slips, 11/0 to 15/0; stores, 20/0; weaners, 7/ to 9/. BTOCK FOR FIJI. WAIKATO PURCHASES. * are operating in Waikato in to Sr?: Va rP ucha f e of stock for shipment te 1 > Mataraata

THE ADDINQTON MARKET.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. Wednesday. Entries in all classes pf sheep at Addington to-day totalled close on 40,000 head. Fat lambß sold at full export values, but fat sheep were inclined to steady after the recent hardening. Fat cattle sold better. Store Sheep.—Although the lamb entry was large, it was insufficient for the demand. The proportion of halfbred ewes was much larger than recently. There was a strong demand for all sorts. Twotoothed halfbred ewes made 35/ to 40/; inferior, 33/ to 34/6; good two-toothed crossbred ewes, 35/ to 39/; ordinary ewes, 30/ to 34/6; cull and inferior two-toothed Romney ewes, 26/6 to 29/; four, six and eight-toothed Romney cross ewes, 25/6 to 29/; inferior four, six and eight-toothed crossbred ewes, 20/ to 25/; sound and fail-ing-mouthed, 18/3 to 23/6; failing-mouthed, 18/ to 22/; good four-year, 28/6 to 31/6; ordinary, 25/ to 27/6; sound and failingmouthed halfbred ewes, 20/ to 24/6; aged ewes, 8/6 to 14/6; forward four and sixtoothed halfbred wethers, to 28/3; ordinary, 22/ to 24/6; forward lambs, 22/ to 25/; medium wether lambs, 19/ to 21/6; small and inferior, 14/ to 18/; cull, 12/ to 13/9; three-quarter-bred ewe lambs, to 27/6.

Fat Lambs.—A total of 2700 was yarded and the sale was at full export rates. Show lambs made 40/ to 50/; extra prime to 34/1; prime, 30/ to 33/1; medium, 27/6 to 20/9; light, 24/ to 27/. Fat Sheep.—The market was easier by 1/ a head, but all sheep sold above export rates. Extra prime wethers realised up to 42/1; prime, 32/ to 35/; medium; 29/ to 32/6; light, 25/ to 28/6; extra prime ewes, to 30/; prime, 25/ to 29/; medium, 21/ to 24/; light, 18/ to 20/; aged, 16/ to 17/6. Fat Cattle. —Best beef made 37/6 to 40/6 per 1001b; medium, 34/6 to 37/; heavy, 33/6 to 36/6; good cow beef, 32/ to 35/; secondary, 28/ to 31/. Fat Pigs.—The demand was easier. Baconers, average price per lb, 5d to sV£d; porkers, 6d to 7d.

SHEKl* (per head ) — Prime wethers . 1!7/ to 34/ 28/3 to 32/0 Untln. wethers . 24/ to 20/9 23/ to 20/ Prlmo ewes .. 111/6 to 28/0 1»/G to 28/ tlnlln. ewes ... it/ to 1!)/ 10/ to 20/ I'riuio lamlis .. 20/ to 30/0 20/ to 30/ CALVES (per Lead) — Runners (id/ to lift/ 60/to 110/ Veulers 46/ to 5)3/ 31/ to 83/ riCiS (per head)— Baconers 60/ to 92/ 60/ to0~>/ 1'orkeis 4(1/ to 74/ 24/ to 63/ Weaners ;t/ to 12/ 3/ to 12/ Slips 10/ to 3 8/ 10/ to 10/ Large stores .. 20/ to 26/ 20/ to 42/