STOCK SALES

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27407, 21 July 1954, Page 15

STOCK SALES

TEMUKA "The Press" Special Service UMARU, July 30. Values finned fully 30b to £3 a head for the 60 head of fat cattle offered at Temuka today. An extra large yarding of three races of fat sheep came forward to meet a steady inquiry from butchers and exporters, values firming 2s 8d a head for wethers and 4s a head for ewes. The penning of store cattle and store sheep was not large, with values holding firm to recent sales. Values were:— . Fat Cattle.—Best fat steers. £46 7a 6dl to £54 7s 6d; medium, £4O to £46; light, £33 7s 6d to £39 17s 6d. Fat heifers: best, £33 to £3B 2s*6d; medium, £29 to £32 17s 6d; light, £25 2s 6d to £2B 17s 6d. Best fat COWS, £3O to £35 2s 6d; medium, £24 to £29 178 6d; light, £l6 to £23. Store and Dairy Cattle.— Dairy cows, to £42 IQs; two and a half-year-old steers, £3O to £32 10s; yearling steers. £lB to £l9; bulls, £2O to £45; store cows, £8

Fat Sheep.—Best fat wethers, £3 5s to £5 14s Id; medium, 95s to 104 s; light, 84s Id t 0.945. Fat ewes: best, 65s to 70s Id; medium, 59s to 645; light, 53s to 58s. Store Sheep.—Wether hoggets, to 655; F. and F. ewes, in lamb, 55s to 765. ASHBURTON Prices for fat ewes and fat lambs at the Ashburton stock sale yesterday were firm because of a keen demand, and prices for wethers were about the same as last week’s rates. Fat wethers made up to 90s for medium quality, to 98s Id for prime, and up to £5 5s Id for extra prime quality. R. F. Leadley (Elgin) sold seven at £5 3s Id. to £5 5s Id. Fat ewes sold up to 55s Id for medium quality, to 63s for prime, and up to 70s Id for extra prime quality. A . Fat lambs realised up to 70s for medium quality, to 81s Id for prime, and to 87s Id for extra prime. In the store section, four-year-old ewes , made from 66s to 735, and whether hoggets (shorn as lambs) made 775.

GROCERY NOTES Business in the grocery trade is still keeping up with the same period last month. Grocers are finding that new lines which have been arriving over the last week or so are selling readily, particularly English jams and biscuits. Overseas ships are still arriving steadily, particularly from England, but goods have been slow reaching merchants’ warehouses after being discharged at Lyttelton. . Greaseproof Paper.—This is a commodity that is still in rather short supply. The price, however, is considerably lower than it was a year ago, when higher prices were being paid by importers. At the present time, deliveries are slow from Norway, the main source of supply, and orders placed will not be delivered until the New Year. New Macaroni Pack.—A South Canterbury manufacturer is introducing two new macaroni packs. The two lines *are attractively packed in transparent bags. The first one is a macaroni shell which up till now has had to be imported, and the second is known as “alphabets and numbers.” Both lines are reasonably priced, and should meet with a ready sale. Tapioca.—The tapioca market has been reasonably steady, although it is down compared with, last year. However, the price is not cheap enough to make tapioca the seller it was in pre-war years. Pearl tapioca, in particular is today a slow seller. Imported Jam.—Today imported tinned jam is arriving on the local markets at considerably lower prices than the New Zealand counterpart. A recent shipment from South Africa of apficot jam in 21b tins is showing a difference of up to 10s a dozen cheaper. Jamaican marmalade, which 15 expected before long, will also show a considerable difference in price.