ADDINGTON MARKET Sound Demand

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30056, 14 February 1963, Page 15

ADDINGTON MARKET Sound Demand

All classes of store sheep and lambs sold soundly at Addington Market yesterday in the biggest entry of the season, which exceeded 22,000. Values held soundly to last week’s good rates for the main classes, and one-year ewes recovered last week’s slight easing. There was a bigger, attendance of buyers, and competition on all classes was stronger. There was a keen deqiand for top-quality lambs in forward condition and with good pelts for shearing and fattening, and lighter sorts met a strong inquiry.

Breeding ewes sold strongly and with a number of well-known station lines forward the level of values was some indication of the prices which are likely to prevail over the Canterbury ewe fairs in the next three weeks.

The entry showed a further increase to 22,373 head, compared with 17,746 last week, and included 7567 store lambs (6011 last week), 5467 two-tooth ewes (2104), 9132 odder ewes (8315), and 187 wethers (326). STORE LAMBS Although the store Lamb entry was bigger values held well to the buoyant rates of last week and there was a big gallery following the sale. Quality was probably a little better than last week and there was a good proportion of forward condition lambs in the yarding. From the outset there was good competition, and this was sustained until the last half race when ’ the attendance fell away and values tended to ease slightly. For the rest of the Mie, however, last week's firming was fully maintained. Buyers bid keenly for the top lambs and there was also a strong inquiry for light and medium condition sorts but there was a noticeable gap between the prices paid for the best and the upper limit of the bidding on the medium classes which seemed to peter out about 375. The best of the Romney and Romney cross wether lambs sold from 40s to 44s 6d, with good at 38s 6d to 38s 6d and others at 24s to 325. The pick of the fine-wools realised from 39s to 44s 6d. with good at 34s to 38s. average at 30s to 33s and small and plain at 20s to 23s Bd. Best Down cross lambs sold from 39s to 42s generally, with good at 34s to 335, and average at 28s to 335. Shorn wether lambs made 30s to 375. Mrs R. Wilson (The Poplars) sold two halfbred wether lambs at 51s 0d and H. Reddie (Okuti Valey) sold five Down cross at 455. The Willesden estate (Poranui) sold 76 Romneys at 44s 6d and 121 at 435; H. Truscott (Moncks Spur) received 44s for Romneys, 45s 6d for quarterbred, and 41s 8d for Down cross, and 44s 8d for

halfbreds and R. Ford (Governors Bay) sold a pen of fine-wools at 44s 6d also. R. H. V. Horsman (Bredwardine) realised 43s 6d for Corriedales and sales of Corriedales at 43s were made by D. J. Parsonson (Windrush) and Wright Bros. (Hawarden). A pen of shorn Romneys realised 37s for D. S. Anderson (Tai Tapu).

There were only a few pens of ewe lambs and these were mostly of only average quality. A pen of Romneys made 56s fid for F. J. Heron (Ohoka). Fine-wool ewe lambs made from 39s to 41s for average to good and others changed hands at 27s to 37s fid. The best of the mixed sex lambs made from 38s 6d to 435, with the top price being paid for 12 Romneys from H. Reddle (Okuti Valley), and. others changed hands at Ms to 355. Sales of lambs included:— Dalgety and New Zealand Loan, Ltd., sold: on account of Wright Bros. (Hawarden), 431 Corriedale wether lambs at 38s to 435; Gobble Bros. (Burnt Hollow). 155 Down cross at 34s to 395; C. de Pas (Kaituna), 86 Romney wether lambs at 37s to 41s 6d, 19 Down cross at 34s 6d, 39 Romney ewe lambs at 395; R. H. Horsman (Bredwardine), 189 Corriedale wether lambs at 39s fid to 43s fid; J. Swarbrick (The Watkins), 264 Romney wether lambs at 28s to 37s 6d; estate R. Allan (Allandale), 251 Down cross at 30s to 375; H. Reddie (Okuti Valley), 74 mixed sex Romneys at 25s to 435, 5 Down cross at 455; E. J. D. Good (Kekerangu), 22 half bred wether lambs at 37s 6d: J. R. Rutherford (Gola Peaks), 313 halfbred wether lambs at 25s to 35s 6d; N. M. Hyde (Ngaroma), 25 halfbred wether lambs at 20s. 68 halfbred ewe lambs at 275; Lands and Survey Dept. (Cheddar Valley), 99 halfbred ewe lambs at 30s 6d to 38s 6d, 27 wether lambs at 245; T. and J. Barrett (The Poplars), 114 halfbred wether lambs at 31s to 35s fid; Mrs R. Wilson (The Poplars). 2 halfbred wether lambs at 51s 6d. National Mortgage and