LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 147, 24 June 1933, Page 4

LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

SPLENDID SALE AT FEILDING.

FAT LAMBS UP TO 26/9.

BREEDING EWES IX DEMAND,

An advance over the previous week's improved prices was shown at the Feilding sale yesterday, when a heavy offering of fat lambs came forward. Export buyers were the principal purchasers again, taking the bulk of the yarding of about 4000 nead of lambs. Quality was very uneven, but for good lines there was keen competition at quotations about 2/ in advance of last week. The highest price of the season, 20/9, was reached for a line

of Suffolk lambs, which wore very weighty animals. Other values were; Extra heavy prime, 23/0 to 25/0; prime, 19/ to 21/9; good, 10/ to IS/'G; light, 11/(5 to 15/0. The fat ewe and wether pens were also heavily supplied, but prices held very firm. Extra heavy prime ewes made to 17/; prime, from 11/8 to 13/3; medium to good, 9/10 to 11/. Wethers ranged in price from 15/ to 10/6 for heavy prime lines, with lighter lots from 13/8 to 14/9.

Breeding ewes met with an unexpectedly keen demand, advancing in value by about 2/ per head. Two, four and six-tooth ewes, running with Southdown rams, made to 15/11; four and five-year ewes, to 10/0; two-tooth ewes, to 23/3; ewe lambs, to 13/; w.f. wether lambs, to 10/9; and forward wethers, to 13/.

For lines of run cattle the inquiry was improved, good Polled Angus steers making up to £4 14/; forward Polled Angus cows, to £2 4/; Polled Angus weancr steers, to 37/G; and Hereford ditto, to 30/.

Fat cattle showed no cliangc in prices, cows ranging from £3 to £4 4/ for the heaviest sorts, and from £1 10/ to £2 17/ for light lines. Heifers were priced at from £3 4/ to £4, while no heavy ox beef was entered. In all section.? of the sale, except for dairy stock, there was an improved tone. POVERTY BAY. BRIGHT FOR STORES. (By Telegraph.—Special to " Star.") GISBORNE, this day. A further advance in the value of fat lambs and wethers was made at Matawhero sale yesterday, but ewes were inclined to bo a little easier, mainly on account of the poorer quality of the offerings. Best ewes made 10/7 to 11/2. others ranging from 7/8 to 0/10. A pen of prime Down lambs made 15/, others selling from 8/6 to 12/5, while wethers ranged from 11/ to 13/5. There was a bright sale for store sheep, a good class of hoggets being yarded and fetching higher prices. Ewes and wethers were sold at rates about on a par with last week. Ewes ranged from 7/11 to 9/2, wethers from 10/7 to 12/1, and hoggets from 7/10 to 10/5. Sheep for Auckland. An indication of the northern demand for sheep was contained in the fact that several more shipments from Gisborne and East Coast have been arranged. The Margaret W. is to load to-day at Tolaga Bay and Tokomaru Bay with sheep for Auckland, and the Pakura left Gisborne to-day with another shipment.