FAT STOCK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 162, 11 July 1934, Page 8

FAT STOCK.

WESTFIELD SALES.

KEEN DEMAND

GOOD QUALITY BEEF.

There was a keen demand for good quality ox beef and a medium all-round yardjng at the Westfield sales to-day, and top price for steers was £11. The prices were the best realised for some time. Heifers were also in demand, £8 being the maximum price realised. The yarding of cows was up to average. There was a short yarding of lambs and pigs. Range of Prices. Alfred Buckland and Sons report: At our Westheld fat stock market held today our beef pens contained 232 head, as against 197 head at last Wednesday's sale, comprising 101 steers and 131 cows and heifers. Included in the offering were some of the heaviest and best cattle penned this season. There was a keen demand, with values slightly firmer. Extra choice ox sold to £13/ per 1001b; choice and prime, 19/ to £1 2/; secondary and plain, 10/ to 18/; prime young cow and heifer beef, 18/ to £1 1/; secondary, 10/ to 17/. Extra heavy prime 6teers ranged in price from £9 17/6 to £11; heavy, £8 15/ to £9 15/; lighter, £7 to £8 12/6; light, £6 to £6 17/6; small and unfinished, £4 5/ to £5 17/6. Extra heavy prime young cows and heifers, £5 17/6 to £8; heavy, £5 to £5 15/: lighter, £3 15/ to £4 17/6; others, £1 10/ to £2 12/6. Dalgety and Co., Ltd.. report:—At our weekly Westheld fat stock market, held to-day. we yarded 117 head of beef, comprising 29 steers and 148 cows and heifers, against 251 head last week. A keen demand for all classes resulted in values firming fully 1/ per 1001b. Extra choice ox sold to 23/ per 1001b: choice and prime, 19/ to 22/; just killable, 16/ to 18/; prime young cow and heifer beef, 18/ to 21/; just killable, 13/ to 17/. Extra heavy prime steers ranged in price from £9 2/6 to £10; heavy. £8 7/6 to £9; lighter, £7 5/ to £8 5/: light, £6 5/ to £7 2/6; small and unfinished, £3 5/ to £6 2/6. Extra heavy prime young cows and heifers. £6 to £6 15/; heavr, £4 15/ to' £5 17/6; lighter, £3 5/ to £4 12/; others, £1 10/ to £3 2/6. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited, report:—At our weekly Westfield fat stock market held to-day our yarding of beef was smaller than last week. There was a keen demand, with values improving about 1/ per 1001b. Extra choice ox sold to 28/ per 1001b; choice and prime, 19/ to 22/; secondary and plain, 15/ to 18/; prime young cow and heifer beef. 18/_to 22/; ordinary. 14/ to 17/. Heavy prime steers ranged in pi-ice from £9 to £9 17/6: lighter. £7 10/ to £8 15/: light, £5 10/ to £7 7/0; small and unfinished, £4 10/ to £5 5/: extra heavy prime voung cows and heifers. £6 to £9 2/6; heavv. £4 15/ to £5 17/6: lighter: £4 to £4 12/6: light. £2 12/6 to £3 17/6; others. £1 10/ to £2 10/. Individual Lots. Following are details of individual consignments: — Steers. Xew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.—On account of A. Orr, Hoteo, 8, £6 12/ to £0 15/; Ngapuki Estate, 9, £7 2/0 to £7 17/6; Estate late A. Bell, ex Papamoa, 4. £1) 10/ to £9 17/6; (i. H. Hoi-ton, ex Te Kauwhatu, 15, £3 12, 0 to £6 17, 6.

Alfred Buckland and Sons. —On account of Estate Mrs. A. lluir, ox Tnnkau, 32, £.5 17/0 to £7; A. W. Alley. Hiikutuia, 0. £0 15/ to £7 5/; IX Sim-lair, Ongaruc, 18, £,> 7/Ci to £7 15/; Hargreaves Bros., Kaiwuka, 8, £9 to £!) 17/0: A. Orr, Hotco, 8, £0 17/6 to £10 10/; Estate late A. Bell, Papnmoa, 3. £!) to £10 10/; W. •T. and H. H. Thompson, Tc Awamutu, 0, £8 2/6 to £11; Taylor Bros., Taupiri, 0, .£() 7/6 to £10 10/. Dalgcty and Co., Ltd. —On account of Bell's Estate, Papamoa, 5, £!) 2/0 to £10: Gerald Bull. Glen Afton. !). £7 to £S 15/; H. C. Bull, Pukctutn Island, 9, £5 to £0 5/. Calves. Dalgcty and Co. report a shorter yarding of calves.' Good quality calves sold readily at late rates, while plainer sorts were inclined to bo a little easier. Runnel's, £2 to £3 8/: hcavv vealors, £2 10/ to £2 16/; medium, £2 to £2 5/; light. £1 10/ to £1 17/; small. £1 5/ to £1 8/; rough calves, 9/ to 10/; bobby calves, 1/ to 3/. Following the export embargo placed by tlie New Zealand Meat Producers' Board, prices of bobby calves dropped about 2/ per head.