ADDINGTON MARKET

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 266, 6 August 1931, Page 12

ADDINGTON MARKET

Grand National “Double Sale” FAT SHEEP FIRMER By Telegraph—Press Association Christchurch, August 5. This week’s market at Addington was the Grand National “double sale,” and it attracted as usual show stock in the fat stock sections. The display In the fat cattle section was slightly better than for some years. The North Island was strongly represented, as was all the South Island, including the West Coast. Store Sheep.—A moderate entry, mostly ewes of mixed appearance. It was n dragging sale and there were many passings. Values were: Good s.m. half and crossbred ewes, 14/- to 16/'.; medium s.m. half and crossbred ewes, 10/- to 12/6; plain s.m. half and crossbred ewes, 6/- to 9/-; good 6 and 8-tootb Corriedale ewes to 16/10. Spring Lambs.—An entry of 61 head of -disappointing quality. The top price was 43/4. Other values ranged down to 12/4. Fat Sheep.—An entry of 5600 head. A keen sale with the demand well maintained. A consignment of 492 sheep from the North Island was yarded. There was a general advance of 1/- a head in all classes. Values were: Show wethers to £2/18/-; extra prime heavy wethers, 22/- to 24/-; prime, 18/6 to 21/-; medium, 15/- to 18/-; light, 12/- to 14/6; show ewes, to 25/-; extra prime, 19/6 to 21/6; prime heavy, 17/6 to 19/-; prime, 15/- to 17/-; medium, 11/- to 14/6; light, 9/- to 10/6; show hoggets to 30/4; extra prime, 21/- to 22/6; prime, 18/to 20/-; medium, 15/- to 17/6; light, 10/to 14/-. Fat Cattie Sell Well. Fat Cattle. —An entry of 563 head. The quality was the best seen at a "National” sale for some years. Many show cattle were entered. Special show bullocks made £36 to £5l; good show bullocks, £2O to £23/17/6; extra prime, £l5 to £l7/17/6; prime, £ll/10/- to £l4/10/-; medium weight, £9 to £ll/5/-; ordinary, £6/15/to £B/15/-; rough, £5 to £6/10/-; show helfersj to £l3/7/6; extra prime to £ll 10/-; prime, £B/10/- to £11; medium, £6 5/- to £B/5/-; light, £4 to £6; extra prime cows to £ll/7/6; prime, £7/15/- to £lO 10/-; medium, £6 to £7/10/-; rough eows, £4 to £5/15/-. Apart from the show cattle, values per 1001 b ranged up to 31/for prlmest sorts; from 27/- to 29/6 for medium weight; 25/- to 27/- for heavy weight; good heifer beef to 28/1; best cows, 25/-; medium 20/- to 23/-; rough beef down to 15/- per 1001 b. Fat Pigs.—An entry of fair size only. The porkers were of good quality, and there was a fair demand with prices on a par with those ruling last week. Choppers, £3 to £B/10/-; baconers, 47/6 tq 52/6; heavy baconers, 57/6 to' £3/2/6; extra heavy baconers, £3/10/- to £3/14/6; average price per lb., 4}d to s}d; porkers, 33/- to 38/6; heavy porkers, 40/- to 46/6; average price per lb, s}d to 6}d. HAWKE’S BAY PRICES Waipukurau Sale Dominion Special Service. Waipukurau, August 5. At the Waipukurau sale yesterday values of fat and'store sheep were steady at last week’s rates. Fat sheep: A good line of 17 fat wethers realised 16/6; 20 fat ewes fair quality made 10/G; a pen of fat hoggets made 9/9; 60 fat ewes of good condition passed at 11/6; a pen of 39 ditto lightly finished passed at 9/6; 19 prime ewes sold for 14/3; a medium quality line of two-tooth wethers made 11/4; one prime wether fetched 17/-: a lightly-.finished line of ewes realised 10/-; 14 fat wethers well conditioned fetched a bld of 17/-. Store Sheep.—3os fair-conditioned wethers from Porangahau passed at 10/10; 120 well-grown two-tooth wethers, low condition, passed at 9/9; 138 two-tooth wethers, no condition, sold for 9/8; 270 fiveyear ewes from Wanstead, showing well in lamb to S.D. rams, good quality, but failing mouths, passed at 12/-; a fair line of 154 four-tooth ewes in lamb to S.D. rams, passed at good figure of 16/-; 238 wether hoggets, fair quality, passed at 9/6; 87 four and five-year ewes, fair condition, passed at 8/9; 50 ditto, poorer quality, passed at 8/-; 50 four and five-year ewes of medium quality passed at 8/-; 80 f. and f. wether hoggets, off swedes, passed at 9/7; 30 good two-tooth ewes, r.w. Romney rams since March T 7, sold for 16/-; 32 five-year ewes In lamb to S.D. rams, fair. quality, passed at 8/-; fair line of 27 wether hoggets off swedes sold for 8/10; 36 wether hoggets, well conditioned, sold for 8/9; 31 m.a. ewes, well mouthed, good condition, r.w.’ S.D. rams since March 15, passed at 12/6; 48 m.a. ewes in lamb to S.D. rams, put by at 15/9. Cattle.—Two pens of dairy cattle were submitted, prices ' being as follow:—One culled dairy cow made £2; one dairy heifer with calf at foot £4. Stortford Lodge Sale Dominion Special Service. Hastings, August 5. At the weekly sale at Stortford Lodge today there was a reduced yarding of beet cattle. Prices from the start showed a firmer tendency. No extra heavy cattle were yarded, and very few station fat cows were offered. It was the smallest entry for many months. Prices throughout the sale were very even for ox beef. Bullocks and vealers sold freely, prices being in favour of vendors. Prime ox beef realised 23/- to 25/- per 1001 b; unfinished, 21/- to 22/-; medium cow beet realised 17/6 per 1001 b. Fat Cattle.—Bullocks, prime heavy, £9 to £ll/3/-; prime light, £7/10/- to £B/15/-; unfinished, £7 to £7/5/-; eows unfinished, £4; dairy sorts, £2 to £3/15/-; vealers, £2 11/- to £2/13/-. Fat Sheep.—Prime fat sheep were very firm. Ewes, 7/- to 12/-; wethers, 12/- to 22/-; lambs, 12/- to 2/-; 2-tooths, 13/-. - ■ V BURNSIDE SALE Sheep Firmer; Cattle Cheaper By Telegraph—Press Association Dunedin, August 5. There was a good demand for all classes of sheep at the Burnside sale to-day, and values for prime lots showed an advance of 1/- to 1/6 a head. The demand for fat cattle was much weaker, and prices declined from 20/- to 25/- a head. There was little demand for store cattle. All classes of pigs met with a brisk sale; porkers and baconers being sold at an advance of 5/a head. Fat Cattle.—The entry of 230 head Included a large sprinkling of plain animals, and a few pens of extra good quality bullocks. Heavy bullocks sold to £l9; medium to £l6/10/-; light, to £ll/10/-; heavy heifers, to £9; medium to £7/10/-; light to £6; heavy cows to £9/10/-; medium to £7/10/-; light to £6/15/-. Sheep.—About 1800 head were offered. The yarding was of fair to prime quality, and Included a few heavy open wool wethers. The proportion of fine wool sheep was large, including about 250 very fair hoggets and some prime merino wethers. The sale opened with a good demand for all classes. Extra prime wethers gold to 26/3: prime to 23/3; medium to 17/-; light to 13/3; prime ewes to 17/6; medium to 14/-; light to 12/-; merinos sold to 11/9: prime hoggets to 15/6; medium to 14/-. Store Cattle.—About 50 head were yarded, including one pen of steers, the balance being cows. There was no change In prices. Pigs.—The entry consisted of 63 fats and 30 stores. All classes met a keen demand. Prime porkers sold at prices equivalent to 6}d. and prime baconers to ojd a lb. JOHNSONVILLE SALE Fat Cattle and Ewes Dearer There was a firming in the values of fat cattle and ewes at Johnsonville sale yesterday, when Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., and Abraham and Williams, Ltd. offered 130 head of cattle and 1546 sheep. The cattle comprised mostly prime qtial !ty bullocks, with several pens of prime cows and heifers. Competition throughout the sale was keen, particularly for heavy bullocks and ewes. Prices were up about 10/- a head on cattle. Sheep' A good sale resulted wethers, if anything, showing no alteration on last week’s rates, but ewes were firm to the extent of 1/? a head. Lambs, which were in short supply, met with a good sale. Prices ranged ns follows:—Prime heavy bullocks. £lO. £9/17/0. £9/15/-, £9/16/-. £9/7/6. £9: bullocks. £B/17/0. £B/19/-. £8 5/-, £B/2/0, £B, £7/10/-. £7; bullocks, light, £6/17/6, £6/10/-, £6, £5/5/-; cowa,

heavy, £7/17/0, £7/7/6, £O/10/-; cows, £6/2/6, £6, £5/15/-, £5/10/-; cows, plain, £4/10/-, £4/5/-, £4, £3/17/6. £3/10/-: vealers, £3/10/-, £3/5/-, £3, £2/17/-, £2 16/-; wethers, 18/-, 17/6, 17/-, to 15/6; extra heavy ewes. 19/1. 18/10, 18/3; heavy ewes, 18/-, 17/6, 17/4, 17/-; ewes, 16/-, 15/8, 15/6; ewes, unfinished. 14/-, 13/6, 12/8; lambs, heavy, 18/-, 17/6, 17/-; lambs, 16/6, 16/-. 15/10, 15/6. WESTFIELD SALE Sharp Rise in Beef and Mutton By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, August 5. A sharp increase In beef and sheep values was recorded at the weekly Westfield fat stock sale to-day. An exceptionally short yarding of fat cattle created a keen demand, and rates went up from 2/- to 3/- per 1001 b. Extra choice ox made up to 28/- per 1001 b; choice and prime, 24/- to 27/-; ordinary, 21/- to 23/-; prime young eow and heifer, 24/- to 27/-; ordinary cow beef, 18/- to 23/-. Heavy prime steers made £lO to £ll/12/6; others, £7/15/- to £9; heavy prime young cows and heifers, £7/15/- to £9; others, £5 to £6/12/6. Sheep.—Heavy prime wethers sold to 27/3; medium to 25/-; light, to 21/9. Fat lambs sold at late rates from 14/- to 23/6 for prime quality. Calves.—Prices advanced for best quality vealers, which were scarce. Heavy sorts made from £4 to £4/14/-; medium, £3 to £3/18/-; light, £2/8/- to £2/18/-; rough, 5/- to 18/-. Pigs eased in value. Choppers sold from £2 to £3/15/-; heavy and medium baconers from £3 to £3/8/-; light and heavy porkers, £2/10/- to £2/18/-; stores, large, £l/15/- to £2/2/-; Blips £l/6/- to £l/13/-; weaners, 12/- to £l/4/-. WAIRARAPA VALUES Masterton Sale Dominion Special Service. Mastorton, August 5. A fair yarding of sheep was submitted to a good attendance of buyers by Associated Live Stock Auctioneers, Ltd., at their Masterton sale to-day. A feature of the yarding was a line of 240 prime heavy owes offered on account of Mr. J. Ogilvy, of Gladstone, which realised top price for tills season at 18/-. Following is, the range of prices:—Heavy I fat ewes, 18/-; lighter ewes, 15/-; fat wethers, 13/8 to 17/1; store wethers, 11/-; cull b.f. lambs, 6/-. A yarding of 600 sheep and a few dairy cattle and pigs were offered by the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Distributing Co., Ltd., at their Masterton sale today. Although fats did not reach the maximum prices of last week they all sold at good sound values, according to their quality. Well-forward dairy heifers met with a good demand and sold readily, while the weaner pigs met with an exceptional Inquiry. With the exception of a small pen of two-tooth Downs In lamb, a total clearance was effected at the following prices:—Fat wethers: Prime heavy, 20/-; prime, 17/10 to 18/7; light, 14/8, 15/6, to 16/6. Fat ewes: Prime maidens, 19/-; prime, 15/- to 16/1; unfinished, 11/6 to 13/-. Fat Downs: Prime ewes, 15/8: twbtooths, 14/-. Fat hoggets: Prime, 12/3, 13/-, to 13/4; medium, 11/-; unfinished, 9/- .to 10/-. Stores: Small two-tooth wethers, 9/5; s.m. ewes, r.w. S.D. rams, 9/10 to 11/-; low condition ditto, 4/-; b.f. hoggets, 7/9; small wether hoggets, 4/2. . Cattle: Good springing Jersey heifers, on account of Mr. C. Hudson, £7/5/- to £7/17/6; later calvers, £5 to £5/15/-; on account of Mr. T. Wyeth, good springing dairy cows, £7/12/6 to £7/17/6; on account of other vendors, cow in milk, £4;- store cowb, £l/5/-. Pigs: Good weaners, 17/6, 18/0, to 19/6; medium, 15/-; slips, 20/6 to 22/-. Horses: Hack with foal at foot, £4/10/-. I Pahiatua Sale Dominion Special Service Masterton, August 5. A good entry of dairy cattle and a few pens of sheep was offered by Associated Live Stock Auctioneers, Ltd., at their Pahiatua sale yesterday. Owing to the rough weather there was a small attendance, and sales were hard to make, though a fair clearance was effected at the following prices:—Four good springing Jersey cows, £7/10/-; two do. ( £7; 1 do., £6 15/-: 2 springing dairy cows, £4/10/-; 2 do.. £4: 1 do., £3/5/-; 5 springing Jersey heifers. £7; 1 do.. £7/10/-: 2 dairy heifers In calf. £’4; 4 do., £2/17/6; ,1 aged dairy cow, £2/2/6: store cows, £1 to £1 2/6; potter bulls, £1: 30 s.m. ewes. r.w. S.D. rams. £9/10/-; 23 b.f. lambs, 8/0. ' Clearing Sale at Pirinoa Dominion Special Service. Masterton, August 5. In spite of very rough weather, Ao>o-' elated Live Stock Auctioneers, Ltd., report that there was a large attendance at a clearing sale they held at Pirinoa yesterday on account of Mr. A. J. Reynolds, of Tuhltarata For the last font years Mr. Reynolds’s herd has averaged over 3001 b butterfat, and no doubt these records attracted many buyers The cows were nil In good order, and the majority were early calvers Individual testing figures were given out as each cow entered the ring. The best cows created keen competition, and quite a number made prices from £9 to £ll/5/r. The latter was top price for the day The herd averaged £7/3/-. The two-year heifers made up to £fi.'ls/ . and the yearling heifers, sold at £2/11/-. Horses bulls, implements anti sundries made good values.