ADDINGTON MARKET Small Entries Of Store Stock

Press, Volume C, Issue 29516, 18 May 1961, Page 18

ADDINGTON MARKET Small Entries Of Store Stock

After the heavy rain over the week-end and flooding in several parts of the country entries were very small for yesterday’s store stock sale at Addington Market. Coming at the end of the season the small yarding had little effect on values, and it was generally a quiet sale throughout. Nearly half the store cattle were from Chatham Islands vendors, and these were in good condition after the voyage. The best of these met a ready sale. Cattle values generally, however, were not much changed. Store sheep and lamb values continued to hold at about last week’s level, but quality was mixed and only a few pens of good sheep

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STORE SHEEP

Store sheep and lamb numbers were at a very low level and the total entry was only 2408, compared with 5978 last week. The gallery following the sale was not particularly large, but all lots found a buyer. The offering included 766 store lambs 12099 last week). 65 two-tooth ewes <725). 687 older ewes 12621), and WO wethers (533),

In the small store lamb offering there were two or three pens of good quality, but the balance was generally indifferent. The better lambs sold at about last week's rates.

Best fine-wool wether lambs made from 40s to 43s with good Romneys at 38s 6d, average down cross at 375, and others at 25s to 325.

Of the pens quoted R. G. Macdonald (Cheviot) sold Corriedale wether lambs at 435. and A. J. Macdonald (Glentui) received 42s for the tops of his halfbreds.

A pen of Romney ewe lambs made 48s 6d which wag paid for 18 from Long Bay Farm. Ltd. (Akaroa) and other Romneys made to 44s 6d with halfbreds at 42s fid.

Sales Included : Dalgety and Company. Ltd., sold: on account of Rockwood Farm iHororata). 52 Romney ewe lambs at 44s 6d.

New Zealand Farmers’ Cooperative Association, Ltd., sold: on account of A. J. Macdonald (Glentui), 207 halfbred wether lambs at 25s to 425: Darfield client. 65 Romney cross at 325; M. Roberts (Okuku). 70 Down cross at 375, 22 shorn Corriedales at 28s.

Pyne. Gould, Guinness Ltdsold: on account of estate I. O. Buchanan (Rakaia Gorge), 101 halfbred wether lambs at 40s: R. G. Macdonald (Cheviot). 132 Corriedale wether lambs at 28s to 435.

National Mortgage and Agency Company. Ltd. and H. Matson and Company sold: on account of K. F. Pickering (Oxford), 42 Romney wether lambs at 38s 6d; Long Bay Farm, Ltd. (Akaroa), 18 Romney ewe lambs at 48s 6d. 6 Romney shorn ewe lambs at 30s: B. J. Ryde (Lincoln). 50 halfbred ewe lambs at 42s 6d.

There was only one pen of two-tooth ewes sold and 65 mated halfbreds from A. O. C. Rutherford (Waitohi Peaks) realised 565. These were offered bv Dalgety and Company. Ltd. The small adult ewe offering of 687 head met a market not

much changed from last week. Good mated Romneys made to 455. with others at 365. Average to good fine wool mated ewes sold from 40s to 435, with W. H. Faulkner (Cora Lynn) selling 152 at 42s to 435. Other mated fine wools made 33s and a pen of mated two-shear Corriedales sold at 48s 6d. Sales included:—

New Zealand Farmers’ Co-op-erative Association Ltd. sold, on account of: A. J. Macdonald (Glentui). 57 mated halfbreds at 335: O’Halloran Estate (Glentui). 149 mated halfbreds at 335: Leeston client. 74 mated Romneys at 455. 54 mated Corriedales at 40s: Rangiora client, 25 mated two-shear Corriedales at 48s 6d.

Dalgety and Company, Ltd. sold, on account of: A. O. C. Rutherford (Waitohi Peaks), 68 mated halfbred ewes at 41s; W. H. Faulkner (Cora Lynn), 152 mated halfbred ewes at 42s to 435.

National Mortgage and Agency Company Ltd., and H. Matson and Company sold, on account of: J. F. Dobbin (Rotomanu), 51 five-year mated Romneys at 365.

Wethers sold at about late rates. Good two and four-tooths made from 53s to 59s for Romney and halfbred types, and a line of 605 Merinos ranged from 25s to 40s 6d.

Sales included:— Pyne, Gould, Guinness Ltd. sold, on account of: Murchison Bros. (Lake Coleridge). 605 Merino wethers at 25s to 40s 6d; H. Gregory Hunt (Pitt Island), 101 Romney wethers at 53s to 595. New Zealand Farmers’ Co-op-erative Association Ltd. sold, on account of: A. J. Macdonald (Glentui), 34 two and four-tooth halfbreds at 38s to 545. STORE CATTLE The store cattle entry was only a shadow of previous weeks’ sales and the entry of 492 head, compared with 1141 last week, included only 95 calves and 397 adult cattle. Quality varied considerably, but there was a reasonable demand for the average to good lines. Values werei roughly the same as last weik with odd pens, perhaps, appearing a shade cheaper. Aberdeen Angus cross steer calves made from £l6 3s 6d to £2O 13s 6d. with a pen of Herefords at £l7 2s 6d. Aberdeen Angus cross heifer calves of good quality realised £22 3s 6d for a West Coast vendor and average heifer calves of Hereford and Aberdeen Angus cross breeding made, from £l4 13s 6d to £l7 7s 6d. A few mixed crossbred and dairy-type calves made from £5 13s 6d to £lO 13s 6d.

Sales included: — Dalgery and Company, Ltd., sold: on account of West Coast clients, 14 Aberdeen Angus heifer calves at £22 3s 6d; Oxenham Bros. (Murchison), 19 Aberdeen Angus-Hereford cross heifer calves at £l4 18s 6d to £l6 13s 6d, 7 Hereford heifer calves at £l4 13s 6d, 12 Aberdeen Angus-Hereford cross steer calves at £l6 3s 6d. But for Chatham Islands cattle there would have been few adult cattle penned. Quality varied considerably and values were no better than last week’s easier rates. There was quite a good demand for the two and a half and three and a half-year steers, and three pens of Herefords in killabie condition made £4l 13s 6d to over £44. Good steers made £37 13s 6d to £39 18s 6d. average £32 13s 6d to £35 18s 6d, and others changed hands at £24 3s fid to £2B 18s 6d. Two and a half-year-old heifers ranged from £29 8s 6d to £3O 13s 6d, and some 20-month steers made £2B 3s 6d to £32 Is.

The best of the mated cows ranged from £3l 3s 6d to £32 3s 6d. with average to good at £2B 13s 6d to £3O 3s 6d.

Among good sales of adult cattle quoted were 10 Shorthorn cross steers from the Estate C. Wishart (Chatham Islands) at up to £39 18s fid (Mount Torless station. Springfield), with two and a half-year Aberdeen Angus steers at £39 8s 6d. and L. Lanauze (Chatham Islands) with steers of similar age and breeding at up to £3B 2s 6d. Top sale of in-calf cows was made by C. S. Donald (Bullock Hill) with Aberdeen Angus at £32 3s 6d. and the Mount Mason Estate (Hawarden) sold seven at £3l 3s fid.

Sales included:— New Zealand Farmers’ Cooperative Association, Ltd., sold: on account of client, 10 threeyear Hereford steers at £4l 3s fid.

Dalgety and Company, Ltdsold: on account of Chudleigh Estate (Chatham Islands), 25 rising three-year Aberdeen Angus and Aberdeen AngusShorthom cross steers at £34 3s 6d to £37 13s fid, 50 Aberdeen Angus and Shorthorn steers at £24 3s 6d to £35 13s 6d: Marshall and Smith (Chatham Islands), 24 Aberdeen Angus three-year steers at £2B 18s 6d to £35 18s fid.

Pyne, Gould. Guinness Ltdsold: on account of A. Daymond (Chatham Islands), 21 Hereford steers at £32 13s fid to £33 3s fid. 7 Aberdeen Angus cross at £34 8s fid. 16 two and a halfyear Aberdeen Angus and Hereford cross heifers at £29 8s 6d to £3O 13s 6d: A Preece (Chatham Islands), 23 two and a half-year Aberdeen Angus steers at £26 8s fid to £34 13s fid: D. Lanauze (Chatham Islands), 16 Aberdeen Angus steers, two and a half-year steers at £35 18s fid to £3B 2s fid: estate C. Wishart (Chatham Islands). 10 Shorthorn cross steers at £2fi 13s fid to £39 18s fid: Mount Mason estate (Hawarden), 7 in-calf Aberdeen Angus cows at £3l 2s 6d: client, 16 in-calf Aberdeen Angus cows at £3O 3s fid: Mount Torlesse station (Springfield). 24 two and a half-year Aberdeen Angus steers at £35 13s fid to £39 8s fid.

National Mortgage and Agency Company. Ltd., and H. Matson and Company, sold: on account of C. S. Donald (Bullock Hill), 32 in-ealf Aberdeen Angus cows at £29 8s fid to £2l 3s 6d; R. Watson (Rotomana), 21 20month Shorthorn steers at £2B 3* 8d to £33 Is,