High Prices At Final Ewe Fair Of Season

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28231, 20 March 1957, Page 11

High Prices At Final Ewe Fair Of Season

The 1957 ewe fair season in North and Mid-Canterbury closed at Coalgate yesterday with another excellent sale for all classes of ewes. Again the emphasis was on the older ewes and for a limited selection there was a keen demand at very high rates. Prices for these were fully firm to a shade better than best fair rates for comparable sheep. Five-year-old ewes sold up to 82s, the highest price paid at any fair this season, apart from Little River, where there was a single sale at 90s. This was for Romneys. Fine wools realised up to 70s and the bulk of the offering of this age group found ready buyers at more than 60s. The market for four-year-olds was particularly strong, with the best of the Romneys ranging from 81s to 87s and the others selling at 62s to 70s, with a small selection of fine wools in sales at 68s to 73s 6d. The two-tooth market was about firm for a small selection of only 17 pens. Romneys realised up to £5 8s and fine wools to £5 2s 6d. More than 1000 lambs. sold freely with ewe lambs bringing up to 84s and wether lambs to 60s 6d. There was also a buoyant market for an entry of two-tooth wethers at values between 70s to 795.

The entry this year totalled 8157 head, compared with 7465 last year, and it included 1184 twb-tooth ewes, 4515 older ewes, 1077 lambs and 1381 wethers. Again there was a large gallery of farmers following the sale and a number had to leave the saleyards with their requirements unfilled. The two-tooth market was topped by A. J. Scott (Kirkstyle) with a pen of 76 Romneys at £5 Bs. This was just 44s ahead of the top price paid to Mr Scott last year. For a small pen I. H. Gillanders (Greendale) received £5 5s and halfbreds from L. Searle (Hororata) reached to £5 2s 6d. Seventy-four Romney cross from C. Cholmondeley (Longford) brought £5, and 99s was paid for 101 Corriedales from R. F. White (Silverwood). High Prices

A splendid pen of big heavilywoolled sheep from J. A. Parsons (Oranga) easily headed the four-year-old age group with a sale at 87s and 252 Romney cross from G. B. Starky (Steventon) made from 77s to 81s. Corriedales from E. H. Sime (Grasslands) brought from 73s to 73s 6d. Last year Mr Sime topped the four-year-old market with a sale from 41s to 425. Mr Parsons’s sheep also set the second highest price for the season in the five-year-old class. A pen of 74 realised 82s. The next best price was 70s for the tops of 116 Corriedales also from E. H. Sime.

Pens of four and five-year-old ewes ranged up to 82s for an entry from Wills and Le Cren (Snowdon), who also sold ewe lambs at 84s, the top price of the lamb sale.

The wether market was topped by F. A. Atkinson (Annat) with two-tooths fetching up to 795. The following is a range of values, with figures for last year’s sale given for comparison: Two-tooth ewes: 1957 1956 Best .. 100 to 108 58 to 66 Good .. 82 to 97 45 to 56 Others .. 60 to 75 31 to 43 Four-year-old ewes: Best .. 73 to 87 35 to 42 Average to good .. 60 to 70 18 to 34 Five-year-old ewes: Best .. 70 to 82 30 to 47 Average to good .. 58 to 65 15 to 24 The best of the ewe lambs sold from 73s to 84s with others down to 60s. Best wether lambs realised from 58s to 60s 6d, with others at 45s to 525. Sales included: — Two-tooth Ewes Pyne, Gould, Guinness Ltd., sold on account of:— E. H. Sime (Grasslands): 121 at 85s to 86s, 98 at 85s, 1 pen at 645. I. H. Gillanders (Greendale): 34 at £5 ss. G. B. Starkey (Steventon): 69 at 63s 6d. G. H. Hall (Terrace Station): 70 at 78s 6d. L. Searle (Hororata): 90 at £5 2s 6d. Dalgety and Company sold, on account of:— Estate W. G. Gerard (Blackhills); 68 at 80s. C. Cholmondeley (Longford): 38 Romneys at 81s, 74 at £5. T. V. Harris (North Clumber): 83 kt 85s. H. R. Henderson (Thurso): 21 at 61s. New Zealand Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association sold, on account of:— T. Fraser (Coalgate): 6 Romneys at 82s. National Mortgage and Agency sold, on account of:— A. J. Scott (Kirkstyle); 78 Romneys at £5 Bs.

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency sold, on account of:— R. F. White (Silverwood): 101 Corriedales at 995, 101 at 90s. Older Ewes Dalgety and Company sold, on account of:— Estate W. G. Gerard: 249 four and five-year-olds at 72s to 735. L. Doody (Flagpole): 183 four-year-olds at 68s, 77 five-year-olds at 60s. Wills and le Cren (Snowdon): 67 four and five-year-olds at 82s. J. H. Jebson (Sheffield): 134 five-year-olds at 48s to 50s. A. J. Duncan (Russells Flat): 133 four and five-year-olds at 61s. R. Galletly (Whitecliffs): 63 at 625, 81 at 565. Mount Algidus Station (Rakala Gorge): 202 Merinos at 365. Pyne, Gould, Guinness Ltd., sold, on account of:— H. M. Hill (Hororota): 52 six and eight-tooths at 68s 6d, 59 four-year-olds at 535. E. H. Sime: 250 four-year-olds at 73s to 73s 6d, 92 four, six and eight tooths at 78s, 116 five-year-olds at 69s to 70s. J. A. Parsons (Oranga): 119 four-year-olds at 87s, 74 five-year-olds at 82s. M. C. T. Newton (Brockley): 164 four-year-olds at 70s, 44 five-year-olds at 565.

G. B. Starky: 252 four-year-olds at 77s to 81s, 149 at 695, 35 five-year-olds at 61s.

Murchison Brothers (Lake Coleridge): 290 sound-mouth at 60s, 89 at 48s, 551 Merino ewes at 245. E. M. Gray (Gunyah): 206 five-year-olds at 625.

J. E. R. Harris (Hororata): 51 four and six-tooth at 80s. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency sold, on account of:— R. F. White: 146 sound-mouth Corriedales at 61s. E. M. Barnes (Whitecliffs): 67 four-year-old Romney cross at 625. P. H. Collison (Windwhistle): 24 five-year-old Romney cross at 625. National Mortgage and Agencv sold, on account of:—

A .J. Scott: 298 four and five-year-old Romneys at 70s. Lambs New Zealand Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association sold, on account of:— L. Couper (Coalgate): 106 wether lambs at 59s 6d, 69 at 58s, 81 at 58s, 100 at 60s 6d, 64 at 60s 6d, 50 at 58s 6d. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., sold, on account of:— R. J. Hall (Hororata): 28 at 435, 55 wether lambs at 50s. Wills and le Cren: 45 wether lambs at 455, 33 at 525, 81 ewe lambs at 84s. G. Cooper (Fighting Hills): 76 ewe lambs at 735. Hororata Girl Guides: 18 mixedsex at 50s. National Mortgage and Agency sold, on account of:— Estate D. Bates: 62 half bred ewe lambs at 60s. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency sold, on account of:— P .H. Collison: 100 Romney cross ewe lambs at 735. Wethers Dalgety and Company, Ltd,, sold, on account of:— Mount Algidus Station: 277 Merinos at 365, 140 at 345, 100 two-tooths at 735. F. A. Atkinson (Annat): 33 twotooths at 755, 66 at 745, 56 at 755, 54 four and six-tooths at 595. Pyne, Gould, Guinness Ltd., sold, on account of:— Murchison Brothers: 216 Merinos at 365, 55 at 225. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency sold, on account of:— F. A. Atkinson: 89 two-tooths at 76s National Mortgage and Agency sold, on account of:— F. A. Atkinson: 22 two-tooths at 795. R. Fairbairn: 47 four, six, and eight-tooths at 695, 23 two-tooths at 61s. New Zealand Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association sold, on account of:—

T. Fraser (Coleridge): 42 twotooths at 68s.

At the end of the ewe fair proper the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency made the following sales of stud Southdown ewes on account of:—

J. S. Thomson (Kirwee): 9 twotooths at 14gns to 18Jgns, 22 fullmouth at lOgns to 12Jgns. L. D. Adams (Sheffield): 7 twotooths at 14Jgns and 17 full-mouth at lOigns to 13gns.

On account of Murchison Bros. (Lake Coleridge), Pyne, Gould Guinness Ltd., also sold 198 stud Merino ewes from 30s to