LIVE STOCK MARKET

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 187, 7 May 1934, Page 4

LIVE STOCK MARKET

Gisborne Sale • Dominion Special Service. Gisborne,. May 5. At the Gisborne sale there were very few fat sheep and no change in prices. Ewes, 15/-; lambs, 13/6 to 17/3; second grade ewes, 11/2 to 12/6. Stores; The entry from Turihau Station of ewes running to Southdown rams was bought for the Waikato and sold under keen competition. prices being: Five-year, 18/1; 4-ycar, 19/6; 4 and 6-tooths, 21/-; other values, s.m., 15/6; empty forward. 10/-; lambs, best woolly shorn, 14/-; good. 12/- to 13/-; wethers, good forward, 17/6. Pigs met a poor demand and easier prices. Weaners, 6/- to 8/-; small stores, 12/- to 14/6; slips, 12/3 to 13/-. Feilding Sale Prices A heavy yarding of fat sheep and a full yarding of stores barely maintained late rates at the Feilding stock sale oh Friday. Dairy and fat cattle sold better than at the previous sale. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report the foL lowing sales: —Fat lambs, 17/6, 19/-, 19/5, 20/1, 21/3, 22/-, 22/3, 22/6, 22/7, 23/-, 23/6, 25/-, 25/1, to 25/10; fat ewes, 16/-, 17/8, to 17/10; fat wethers, 20/-: 4 and 5-year ewes, r.w. S.D.. 14/- to 18/-; 2-tootb wethers, 16/5. 18/5; m.s. 2-tooths. 18/5; b.f. lambs, small. 8/-, 10/6, to 10/9; wether lambs. 13/7; m.s. lambs, 16/6; fat P.A. cows and heifers. £4/7/-, £4/7/6, £4/11/-, to £5; fat cows, Jersey sorts, £l/18/-, £2 5/-, to £2/7/-; dairy heifers in milk, £3 1/-; weaner heifers, small, S/-, 14/8. to 18/-; 2-vear. heifers. £l/5/-; store cows. 20/- to 30/-. Abraham and Williams. Ltd., made sales as follow: —Fat sheep: Fat lambs. 18/-, IS/6, 18/9, 19/-, 19/9, 19/10, 22/1 22/3, 22/6, 23/7, 23/9, to 24/-; fat ewes. 14/-, 14/10. 17/4, 17/7, 18/6. 19/2, 19/3; fat wethers, to 23/8. Store sheep: 2-tooth ewes, r.w. S.D. rams. 26/-; 2. 4 and 6-tooth ewes, r.w. S.D. rains, 21/6 to 22/-; 4 and 5-year ewes, r.w. S.D. rams, 20/8 to 22/6; 5-year ewes, r.w. S.D. ram, 20/-; m.a. ewes, 13/6: b.f. lambs, 14/-. 16/10. to 18/-: wether lambs, to 15/7: ewe lambs. K7/9 to 18/S. Fat cattle: Fat cows, £2. £2/3/6. £2/10/-. £2/12/6, £3, £3/2/6. £3/10/-, to £3/15/-: fat. heifers. £2/10/-, £3/5/-. to £3/7/6. Store cattle: Weaner Jersey heifers. 22/-. 24/-. to 25/0; heifers, r.w.b., £3/1/-; store cows, 24/6. 28/-, 30/-, 31/-. '37/-. £2. £2/4/-, to £2/5/-. Dairy cattle: Springing heifers, £2/7/6. £3, to £3/10/-: springing cows, £3/12/6; cows in in ilk. £2 to £3/15/-.