ADDINGTON MARKET Good Calves Sell Well; Lambs Easier

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29802, 19 April 1962, Page 16

ADDINGTON MARKET Good Calves Sell Well; Lambs Easier

Good-quality store calves were about on a par with last week’s values at Addington Market yesterday, although some of the plainer sorts did not meet as strong a sale. Top price for steer calves was £22 3s 6d. Adult cattle were generally easier by 20s to 30s a head.

In a smaller store sheep offering wethers sold strongly at last week’s good prices, but the inquiry for lambs, other than the best, was not as strong, and most classes of lambs were Is to Is 6d a head easier. Small offerings of ewes met only a moderate inquiry. There will be no sale next week, and the next store sheep and store cattle sale will be held on Wednesday, May 2.

STORE SHEEP The store sheep entry showed a further drop in numbers and smaller galleries followed the sales. While there was a good demand for wethers, there was less buying power for other sorts and only the best met any competition. Quality over all was not as good. The entry totalled 8707 head compared with 10.831 last week, and included 5051 store lambs (6361 last week). 824 two-tooth ewes (829) 8628 older ewes (1871) and 1970 wethers (1770). A smaller gallery followed the lamb sale and there was less buying power, with competition being shown only on the forward condition sorts. Generally, the wether lamb market could be quoted Is to Is fid a head easier, although odd pens made about late rates. For ew’e lambs a similar position ruled, although there were several good sales at over 40s. The best of the fine wool wether lambs sold from 33s 6d to 38s, with average to good at 34s to 30s 6d and others to 21s. Good Down cross made 37s with average to good at 29s to 30s fid. Best Romney wether lambs realised 36s to 435, good to 325. and average 28s to 295. Best shorn Romney wether lambs made 34s to 395, with average to good at 26s to 31s. The best Romney ewe lambs made 40s to 43s fid, good at 37s 6d and average at 28s to 30s. Best fine wools sold at 42s fid to 435, good at 37s to 38s, and average to 30s. Shorn Romney ewe lambs made 355. Top wether lamb sale at 43s was paid for Romneys from S. Oliphant (Glentunnel). W. H. R. Stevenson (Oxford) sold 100 Romneys at 40s 6d. E. J. Mulligan (Hawarden) sold 78 fine wools at 38s and J. D. Stewart (Lobum) received 37s fid for 144 fine wools. Down cross realised 37s for O. G. Oakley (Yaldhurst). H. Butcher (Nelson Creek) had sales of shorn Romneys at 34s to 395. Sales of ewe lambs of Romney breeding at 43s fid were made by A. J. Chapman-Cohen (Longford) and W. H. R. Stevenson. D. W. and R. D. Ensor (Lammermoor) sold 80 Corriedale ewe lambs at 43s and D. McLean (Waiau) sold 160 Corriedales at 42s fid. Sales included:— Pyne, Gould. Guinness Ltdsold: on account of Glens of Tekoa (Culverden), 164 halfbred wether lambs at 22s fid to 25s fid; estate of J. H. Rhodes, (Palmside). 100 Corriedale wether lambs at 27s fid to 355; S. L. Larsen (Springbank). 188 shorn Corriedale wether lambs at 26s to 32s fid; S. Oliphant (Glentunnel), 38 Romney wether lambs at 38s to 435; J. H. Boyd (Kaikoura), 90 shorn Romney wether lambs at 29s fid to 31s; estate 3. Milliken (Brooksdale), 415 halfbred ewe lambs at 27s to 38s, 402 halfbred wether lambs at 26s to 33s fid. National Mortgage and Agency Company, Ltd., and H. Matson and Company sold: on account of O. G. Oakley (Yaldhurst). 129 Down cross lambs at 30s fid to 375; N. Handyside (Hundalee). 195 Romney cross wether lambs at 28s to 365; H. Butcher (Nelson Creek), 88 Romney shorn wether lambs at 34s to 395; R. M. and B. A. Banks (Paringa Hills), 128 halfbred wether lambs at 24s to 30s fid: estate W. Stone (Hororata), 57 halfbred ewe lambs at 30s; D. McLean (Waiau). 160 Corriedale ewe lambs at 42s 6d; New Zealand and Australian Land Co. (Macdonald Downs), 235 Corriedale wether lambs at 21s to 28s; A. N. Parker (Waiau), 58 Romney cross wether lambs at 29s to 325; T. P. O'Regan (Cronadun), 90 Romney shorn ewe lambs at 355. Dalgetv and New Zealand Loan, Ltd., sold: on account of R. G. Deans (Homebush). 393 Romney cross ewe lambs at 28* to 40s: A. 3. Chapman-Cohen (Longford). 26 Romney ewe lambs at 43s fid; J. A. Stewart (Hawarden). 159 shorn Romney cross ewe lambs at 355; J. O. Ferguson (Russells Flat), 94 Romney cross ewe lambs at 29s 6d to 41a; estate R. W. F. Newton (Walnui), 20 Down cross at 30s; W. H. R. Stevenson (Oxford). 57 Romney ewe lambs at 43s fid. 100 Romney wether lambs at 40s fid; R. G. Craw (Camerons). 37 Down cross at New Zealand Fanners' Cooperative Association, Ltd., sold: on account at K. F. Pickering (Coopers Creek). 77 shorn Romney wether lambs at 26s to 31s; K. T. Doody (Oxford). 42 Romney cross ewe lambs at 37s fid; J. D. Stewart (Loburn), 85 halfbred ewe lambs at 375, 53 mixed sex at 28s fid, 324 wether lambs at 33s fid to 37s fid; client, 59 Romney ewe lambs at 30s; A. D. Russell (Amberley). 140 shorn Romney ewe lambs at 355; E. J. Mulligan (Hawarden). 78 halfbred wether lambs at 38s. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltdsold: on account of D. W. and R. D. Ensor (Tammermore), 80 Corriedale ewe lambs at 435; client, 42 wether lambs at 30s. TWO-TOOTH EWES Another small entry of twotooth ewes Included an odd pen of too quality but most of the offering was of average quality.. As would be expected, demand had eased in the last few weeks and the market did not look to have a very strong tone. Values were about on a par to a shade weaker and there were several passings, with only a moderate gallery following the sale. Two pens of good mated Romneys sold by an undisclosed vendor made 64* to 70s and other mated Romneys ranged from 56s to 60s. Average fine wools realised 42s fid to 52s and two-tooth Merinos made 25s to 26*.

Sales included:— New Zealand Fanner*’ Cooperative Association. Ltd., sold: on account of clients, 133 Romneys running with Southdown ram at 64s to 70s, 135 Bomneys mated with Southdown ram at

59* to 60s; E. J. Mulligan (Hawarden), 54 halfbreds at 42* fid. National Mortgage and Agency Coinpan}-. Ltd., and H. Matson and Company sold: on account of T. F. Woods (Methven), 223 Merino* at 25s to 28s. OLDER EWES

The older ewe offering of 862 head was only half that of last week, and there was little of note in the offering. Values were about on a par. Romneys mated with Southdown rams made 32s 6d, and haffbreds 325. and other fine wool ewes made to 265. Mixed age fine wools made 41* to 445, with Berriedale Farm (Amberley) selling 126 two. four and six-tooth Corriedales at Ms to 445. Mixed age Romneys made to 32s 6d,

In last week's sale two good ales which escaped notice vere 100 four and five-year

Romney ewes at 44s from T. Barwick (Poranui), and the estate D. Barwick, of the same address, sold 52' Romney cross at 435. Sale* included:— National Mortgage and Agency Company, Ltd- and H, Matson and Company sold: on account of Bemedale Farm. Ltd. (Amberley), 125 two, four and six-tooth Corriedale* at 42s to 445. New Zealand Farmers Cooperative Association, Ltdsold: on account of client, 68 Romneys running with Southdown ram at 32s 6d. Dalgety and New Zealand Loan, Ltd- sold: on account of L. M. Campbell (Oxford), 28 mixed age Romney* at 32s 6d; estate F. and J. Northcote (Whalesback), 38 mixed age halfbreds at 41s.

Pyne, GouM, Guinness Ltdsold: on account of D. R. Antill (Weka Pass), 96 Corriedale ewes at 265; client, 83 halfbred ewes at 325.

WETHERS Another big offering of wethers, which totalled 1970 head compared with about 1700 last week, continued to meet a strong sale with values fully up to the good rates of last week. The feature of the offering was a line of 1211 two-tooth halfbreds from the Bluff station (Kekerangu) which averaged 52s 6d and included sales of 192 at 56s 6d and 106 at 565. The estate B. MurrayAynaley (Mount Algidus) was also to the fore with 339 twotooth halfbreds which also averaged 52s fid and included 60 at 56s and 80 at 545. Best two-tooth fine wool wethers made 50s 6d to 56s 6d, with average to good at 45s fid to 48s 6d. Older wethers ranged from 32s to 375.

Sales included:— Dalgety and New Zealand Loan, Ltd- sold; on account of Bluff Station, Ltd. (Kekerangu), 1211 two-tooth halfbreds at 48s to 56s fid; A. R. Turnbull and Sons (Bingley), 99 two-tooth halfbreds at 48s fid to 50s 6d; client, 198 two-tooth Corriedales at 48s to 545; estate B. MurrayAynsley (Mount Algidus). 339 two-tooth halfbred* at 46s to 565: E. G. O. Rutherford (Lochiel), 15 halfbreds at 32s 6d to 375.

Pyne, Gould, Guinness Ltdsold on account of: L. C. Gardiner, Ltd. (Waiau). 59 halfbreds at 45s fid.

STORE CATTLE Although the store cattle entry of 1106 head was well below the i 486 yarded last week, the drop wa* in adult cattle of which only. 280 were Offered compared with 670 last week. Calves increased slightly to 826 head compered with 796 last week.

Generally the calf sale was quite sound. The offering showed a bigger variation in quality but there were some well-known station lines of top quality forward.

The sale opened on a strong note with a large gallery following the market and bidding well, but as the sale progressed, and more of the plainer calves were offered, it tended to weaken by about 20s a head on all but the best. Later, however, when better calves were offered, competition Improved and the market took on a stronger note, with most classes fully up to late rates, and the best showing a slight advance. This was sustained until the end and there were quite a number of unsatisfied buyers. Best Aberdeen Angus and Aberdeen Angus cross steer calves ranged from £l7 3s fid to £2O 18s fid, with an odd sale to £22 3s fid, good made £l3 8s fid to £l6 18s 6d. average £ll 18s 6d to £l3 Is, and small and Inferior £7 13s 6d to £ll 3s Bd. Best Hereford steer calves made £l5 8s fid to £l6 8s 6d, good made £ll 18s fid to £l4 8s fid, and average £8 16s 6d to £ll 3s fid. Good Shorthorn steer calves realised £ll 13s fid to £l4 Is.

The best of the Aberdeen Angus and Aberdeen Angus heifer calves sold at £l3 8s 6d to £l4 18s 6d, good made £ll 3s 6d tq £l3 18s 6d, average £9 13s 6d to £ll Is, and small and inferior £7 8s 6d to £8 18s 6d. Best Hereford heifer calves made £l3 8s 6d to £l4 3s 6d, good to £l2 13s Gd and small to average £7 3s 6d to £9 13s 6d. Good Shorthorn steer calves made £ll 8s fid. The steer calf market was topped by B. SavlU (Percival) who sold 30 Aberdeen Angus at £22 3s 6d and averaged £2O 5s for his line of 41. He also sold 30 heifer calves of similar breeding at £l2 12s 6d to £l4 IBs 6d. G. H. Parsons and Son (Benmore) sold 14 Aberdeen Angus cross at £2O 8s 6d. 15 at £2O 3s 6d, and Hereford heifer calves at £l2 18s 6d to £l4 3s 6d. A. M. Deans (Kilmarnock) received £2O 18s 6d for 15 Aberdeen Angus cross and sold 30 Aberdeen Angus, Aberdeen Agus Cross and Hereford heifer calves at £l3 8s 6d. W. Deans and Son (Sandown) received £2O 13s 6d for 16 Aberdeen Angus steer calves and sold heifer calves of similar breeding at £l3 18s 6d. Sales included:— National Mortgage and Agency Company Ltd., and H. Matson and Company, sold on account of: J. L. Clark-Hall (Mount Macdonald), 21 Hereford steer calves at £ll 3s 6d to £l3 18s 6d. 8 Aberdeen Angus cross steer calves at £ll 3s 6d; H. D. Hurford (Irwell). 12 Shorthorn steer calves at £ll 13s 6d- A. and J. Thompson (waipara), 6 Aberdeen Angus steer calves at £l7 13s 6d; R. PSteele (Waiau). 8 Aberdeen Angus cross steer calves at £l2 Is 9 Aberdeen Angus cross heifer calves at £9 8s 6d: Wyndale Run, Ltd. (Annat), 20 Aberdeen Angus cross steer calves at £ 13 Is to £ 13 18s 6d, 22 Aberdeen Angus cross heifer calves at £lO 6s to £l2 Is (in conjunction with Dalgety and New Zealand Loan, Ltd.). Pyne. Gould, Guinness Ltd., sold: on account of B. Dobson (Ward), 29 Aberdeen Angus steer calves at £ll 3s 6d to £l4 13s 6d. 13 heifer calves at £9 13s 6d; D. Hodgkiss (Kaikoura). 8 Aberdeen Angus steer calves at £ll 18s 6d, 11 heifer calves at £ll 8s 6d; eat. J. B. Steel (Mt Virginia). 18 Aberdeen Angus cross steer calves at £l6 8s 6d 23 heifer calves at £9 18s 6d to £l2 IBs 6d; McAlpine and Westenra (Craigieburn) 27 Hereford steer calves at £8 18s 6d to £ll 188 8d; J. T. Lilley (Hororala), 33 Aberdeen Angus cross heifer calves at £9 Ils to £9 186 6d; W. M. Means (Motunau) 13 Shorthorn heifer calves at Au 18s Sd. 15 Aberdeen Angus cross heifer calves at £l2 3s 6d. N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.. Ltd., sold: on account of B. Savill (Percival). 41 Aberdeen Angus steer calves at £l4 18s Sd to £3B 3s 6d, 30 heifer calves at £l2 Us 6d to £l4 18s 8d; P. D. Bush

(Oona), 13 Aberdeen AngusHereford cross steer calves at £l6 13* fid, 9 heifer calve* at £ll 3s 6d; D. Olerenshaw (Hawarden). 15 Aberdeen Angus-Hereford steer calves at £l6 16*. 10 heifer calves at £ll Is. Dalgety and N.Z. Loan, Ltdsold: on account of G. H. Parson* Sc Son (Benmore), 46 Aberdeen Angus and Hereford cross heifer calve* at £l2 18* fid to £l4 3s fid, 62 steer calves at £l5 13* 6d to £2O 8s fid; ett. 3. L. Rollason (Kekerangu). 37 Aberdeen Angus steer calves at £l4 18* fid to £l6 13* fid. 12 heifer (calves at £ll 13s fid; W. Deans & Son (Sandown), 37 Aberdeen Angus steer calve* at £9 18* 6d to £2O 13s 6d. 36 heifer calves at £ll 8s 6d to £l3 18s fid; McLeod & Qrbell (Graasmere), 24 mixed sex Aberdeen Angus at £8 Ils to £l2 8s fid; Rockwood Farm, Ltd. (Hororata), 17 Aberdeen Angus heifer calve* at £lO 11s, 22 steer calves at £lO 8s fid to £l4 13s fid; F. D. Richards (The Point), 14 Aberdeen Angus steer calves at £l3 18* fid, 7 heifer calves at £9 13s fid; H. C. Deans (Tara), 10 Aberdeen Angus heifer calve* at £ll Is, 13 steer calves at £l6 8a fid; W. P. Belton. Ltd. (Waikarl), 14 Aberdeen Angus cross steer calves at £lB 13* fid. 20 heifer calves at £8 8s fid to £l3 8s fid; A. Nimmo (Southbridge), 12 Aberdeen Angus steer calves at £l7 3s fid 13 heifer calves at £l3 13s fid: A. M. Deans (Kilmarnock), 26 Hereford steer calves at £l5 8s fid to £l6 8s 6d, 15 Aberdeen Angus cross steer calves at £2O IBs fid, 30 Aberdeen Angus, Aberdeen Angus cross and Hereford heifer calves at £l3 8s 6d: W. T. Pain & Son (Cheviot), 22 Aberdeen Angus cross steer calves at £l4 16s to £l6 13s 6d, 23 heifer calves at £8 16s to £l2 is; Brooke Dawson Est. (Cheddar Valley), 40 Aberdeen Angus and Aberdeen Angus cross steer calves at £l3 8s 6d to £l5 18s 6d, 51 Heifer calves at £lO 13s fid to £l2 8s fid; J. G. Cran (Hakaia Gorge). 23 mixed sex Aberdeen Angus calves at £9 18s fid to £lO 18s fid: Ngapara Downs, Ltd. (Springbank), io "?® rd , ee *> Angus steer calves at helfer calves at £!p 3s_ fid; clients, 21 Hereford and Aberdeen Angus cross mixed sex at £5 16s to £lO 13s 6a, 30 Aberdeen Angus cross steer calves at £7 13s fid to £l2 3s fid, 12 Aberdeen Angus cross heifer calves at £8 Ils.

ADULT CATTLE Adult store cattle generally met a weaker sale. There was less inquiry from a smaller gallery, the main demand at present being for calves, and most values for graziers' cattle could be quoted easier by 20s to 30s a head. Boner types and light condition cattle reflected the drop in the export schedule. The best of the two and a-half-year-old steers made to £32 18s 6d, which was paid for Aberdeen Angus cross from the Glens of Tekoa Estate (Culverden), and average good ranged from £2O 13s fid to £29 13s fid. Two and a-half-year-old heifers made £2l 3s 6d to £22 18s 6d. For eighteen months steers, Hereford and Aberdeen Angus made £23 8s fid to £25 13s fid for a line of 12 from A. D. Galletly (Waiau), and a pen of Shorthorns made £l2 13s fid. Eighteen-month heifers made £2O 8s 6d to £2O 18s 6d for Aberdeen Angus and Shorthorn sold at £ll 4s.

In-calf cows made £l5 3s fid to £l6 18s fid for good, with others at £l3 18s fid, and empty cows made boner values at £l2 8s fid upwards with the best selling from £2l 18* fid to £25 18s fid. Randolph Holdings, Ltd. (Amberley) sold five in-calf Aberdeen Angus cow* at £l6 18s fid. and McLeod and Orbell (Grasmere) received £l5 3s 6d for 14 in-calf Aberdeen Angus. Sales included:— National Mortgage and Agency Company, Ltd., and H. Matson and Company sold, on account of: W. J. Burnett (Spotswood), 4 two and a-half-year-old Shorthorn cross steers at £2O 13s fid. 10 18-month Shorthorn cross steers at £l2 3s fid. 12 Shorthorn cross eighteen month heifers at £ll 4s; Wyndale Run, Ltd. (Annat), 12 18-month Aberdeen Angus in-calf heifers at £2O 8s 6d, 11 in-calf Hereford cows at £l3 18s 6d (in conjunction with Dalgety and New Zealand Loan, Ltd.). Pyne, Gould, Guinness Ltdsold, on account of: Mount Mason Estate (Hawarden), 9 twoi and a-half-year Aberdeen Angus steers at £29 13s 6d; Glens of Tekoa Estate (Culverden), 28 Aberdeen Angus cross heifers at £2l 3s fid to £22 18s fid, 21 Aberdeen Angus cross two and a-half-year steers at £2B 18s fid to £32 18s fid; S. E. Patten (Kaituna), 9 18-months Aberdeen Angus heifers at £2O 18s fid.

Dalgety and New Zealand Loan, Ltd., sold, on account of: McLeod and Orbell (Grasmere), 14 ta-calf Aberdeen Angus cows at £l5 3s 6d; F. D. Richards (The Point), 19 Aberdeen Angus empty cows at £l3 13s fid to £2l 13s 6d: A. D. Galletly (Waiau), 12 Hereford and Aberdeen Angus 18-month steers at £23 8s 6d to £25 13s 6d; Randolph Holdings, Ltd. (Amberley), 5 in-calf Aberdeen Angus cows at £l6 18s fid.