FAT STOCK MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 198, 22 August 1928, Page 9

FAT STOCK MARKET.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—To-day at our weekly Westfield fat stock market, ox beef was penned in less than average numbers. Values obtained for ox beef were slightly lower, but cow and heifer beef was very firm at late rates. Extra choice ox sold to £2 6/ per 1001b; choice and prime ox, £2 2/ to £2 5/; ordinary and plain, £1 18/ to £2 1/; prime young cow and heifer beef, 39/ to £2 2/; ordinary cow beef, 34/ to 38/; heavy prime steers, £15 15/ to £17 5/; lighter prime steers, £14 to £15 12/6; light prime steers, £12 to £13 17/6; unfinished and small.. £10 to £11 15/6; extra heavy prime young | cows and heifers, £13 5' to £14 15 ; heavy prime young cows and heifers, £12 to £13 2/6; lighter, £10 to £11 17/6; light, £7 t-o £9 17/6; other cows, £5 10/ to £6 15/6.

Alfred Buckland and Sons. Ltd., report: To-day at our weekly Westfield fat stock market our beef pens contained 338 head, as against 277 at last Wednesdays sale, comprising 239 steers and 99 cows and heifers. There were manj T lines of extra prime cattle, and although competition was keen, last week's sharp advance was scarcelv sustained. Extra choice ox sold to £2 6' per 1001b; choice and prime ox. £2 2 to £2 s': ordinary and plain ox, £1 17/ to £2: prime young cow and heifer beef. £1 17/ to £2; ordinary cow beef, £1 10/ to £1 16/; extra heavy prime steers ranged in price from £20 5< to £2°« 10/; heavy prime steers, £1S to £19 15/; lighter prime steers, £13 to £15 17/6; unfinished and small, £9 17 6 to £12 15/; extra heavy prime young cows and heifers, £12 10/ to £15 5/; heavy prime roung cows and heifers. £10 10/ to £12 7/6; lighter, £8 10/ to £10 7/6; other cows, £6 to £8 51. Dalgety and Company. Ltd., report having yarded an average ya ;jng of cow beef and a smail yarding of ox beef Although only a small yarding of ox beef was penned, values were slightly easier whilst values for prime voung cow and heiter were on a par with last week', rates. They quote: Extra choice ox gnM 46/ per 1001b; prime young cow Luu beet, 42/ per 1001b. aeifer