ADDINGTON MARKET

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21656, 14 December 1935, Page 13

ADDINGTON MARKET

OVER-SUPPLY OF FAT STOCK EXPORT COMPETITION r The fat lamb sale on Wednesday was the first this season at which export buyers operated, and they paid full schedule rates for the lighter qualities of lambs. Butchers competed to a sufficient extent to keep the market up , to the full export level for the class of lamb that does not appear to be particularly wanted at Home. This is the 401 b to 451 b type, for which the average New Zealander shows a preference over that of the 30 to 321 b. Strangely enough, however, in spite of the extent to which we have the “light lamb” slogan, thefe is always a strong export market for weighty lambs towards the end of a season in which there has been a dominance of light lambs, and the light lamb premium disappears. There was a good showing of very prime lambs on Wednesday. Values, with those at the corresponding sale last year, were as follows: — Dec.l2. Dec. 11. 1934. 1935. s. s. s. s. Extra prime heavy to 264 to 28 Prime heavy .. 22 to 243 244 to 264 Ordinary ... 194 to 214 22 to 24 Light .. 16 to 19 to 214 Fat Sheep Except for two-tooth wethers, exporters showed no interest in the mutton market. Their pre-Christmas attention is devoted to lamb or light wethers, and the over-supply of heavier sheep had to depend on the com- , petition of butchers. This was not sufficient to maintain prices for the lighter ewes in face df the ample entry of prime mutton and the extremely hot weather, which generally has an influence on butchers’ competition. In any case, freezing ewes scarcely came within export parity. Wethers — s. s. s. s. . Ex prime heavy to 26 to 274 Prime heavy .. 221 to 244 224 to 254 1 Prime med. U’gt. 21 to 224 20J to 224 j Ordinary .. 19 to 20i 183 to 204 . 1 Light .. to 184 to 184 K'Ewes— Ex prime heavy to 22 to 231 Prime heavy .. 18 to 20 19 to 214 ( Prime med. wgt. 16 to 174 16 to 18 i Ordinary i. 14 to 154 144 to 153 ;f Light .. to 13 to 14 Store Sheep > The bulk of the entry in the store *heep pens were wethers, and from a' distance —the Marlborough province, ffhere was quite a fair sale considering the slack tone in the mutton market. Some of the sheep which averaged from 14s 6d to 15s 6d will require a good deal of fattening, and these prices do not allow for much slipping of mutton values a month or so hence. Now that feed Is so good there are comparatively few ewes and lambs coming forward. Fat Cattle if!. It would seem that the period of good prices for cattle are over for the . season. Wednesday’s entry was a -’heavy one for mid-December, and with . lamb and coming down to export valuesrbeef has to follow* if not ‘ ' lead. Eight or 10 pen? of good medium weight prime cattle were np more than 10s a head easier than tire preceding, week, but heavy weights were down by fully 20s a head, and a number of this class made no more than 24s per 1001 b. A rather disquieting aspect of Wednesday’s penning was that there was a return to the surplus of light cows, and these met with a slack sale. Many pens of slightly better sorts ranged up to £5 a head, but the light sorts, which should have been in the store pens, were very hard to quit at prices ranging about £4 to |£4 ss. The proportion of really prime cattle in the entry was small, and heifers were forward in unusually Email numbers. Eteers — > £ £ £ £ Ex prime heavy to 11 to 134 , Prime heavy .. 83 to 10 94 to 114 Prime med. wgt. 74 to 94 83 to 10 Ordinary quality 44 to 7 7 to 84 Light ... to 4 to 64 peifers— Ex prime heavy to- 8J Prime heavy .. 44 to 6 6 to 84 ' Ordinary .. 34 to 43 43 to 53 Light to 3 to 44 •|Cows — Ex prime heavy to 7 to 94 \ Prime .. 34 to 5 54 to 7 J Ordinary 23 to 33 44 to 5 V Light and aged to 2 to 4

BURNSIDE SALE

Quotations at the Burnside market ion Wednesday, when these was an easing of from 15s to 25s a head, were as follows; —Extra prime bullocks, to £l3 17s 6d; prime. £ll 10s to £l2 15s; medium, £olos to £ 1010 s; light, from j£6 12s 6d; extra prime cows and heifjers, to £lO 7s 6d; prime, £6 10s to ,£8; medium, £4 10s to £5 10s; light pnd aged, from £3 15s. Fat sheep valeus were:—Prime heavy woolly wethers, to 40s; medium, 82a 6d to 355; prime woolly ewes, to 36s 6d; medium, 26s 6d to 295; light, from 22s 6d: extra prime heavy shorn iWethers, to 37s 9d; prime, 30s to 32s 6d; medium. 25s to 27s 6d; light, from 21s; extra prime heavy shorn ewes, to 28s; prime, 23s to 24s 6d; medium, 20s to Bis 6d; light, from 16s 6d.