LIVE STOCK MARKET

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 203, 25 May 1936, Page 7

LIVE STOCK MARKET

Gisborne Sale

Dominion Special Service. Gisborne, May 24. At the Gisborne sale fat sheep barely maintained values. Ewes, extra 20/6, generally 16/7 to 17/9; lambs. 17/- to 19/-; second-grade ewes, 13/8. The store sheep entry totalled 6200. and after several consecutive keen sales the market generally showed slackness, with wethers declining 1/6. Breeding ewes, two-tooths to 26/6, mixed to five-year 25/3. generally 21/- to 22/6; hoggets, outstanding ewes, 23/4; ditto, wethers, 18/7; good ewes, 19/-; wethers, 16/9; good Downs, 15/9 to 16/3; wethers, large, good quality entry, 20/7 to 22/3, medium 19/-.

The dairy cattle market is improving. Springing heifers, £4/12/6 to £6/10/-; second culvers to £4/7/6.

Feilding Sale Prices Feilding, May 23. At the Feilding stock sale on Friday the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., made the following sales:-— Fat lambs, 20/-, 20/6, 21/11, 22/3 to 25/-; fat ewes, 16/-, 18/3. 19/1, to 20/-; fat wethers, 25/-, 25/6, to 28/-; wether lambs, 15/9. 16/4, 16/11, 17/4 to 17/10; ewe lambs, 22/9, 23/-, to 24/8; b.f. lambs, 15/- to 18/3; breeding ewes, r.w. S.D. rams. 4 ami 5-year, 60 at 22/-, 150 at 22/6, 90 at 25/-, 43 at 24/6, 70 at 28/6; 5-year ewes, 75 at 23/6, 100 at 24/-; store wethers, 23/6; fattening ewes, 12/9, 13/4, to 14/-; springing heifers. £3/12/6, £3/15/-, £4/10/-, _ £5, to £5/17/6; springing cows, £3/15/-, £4 12/6, £5, to £6/15/-; fat dairy cows, £3/12/6. £4, £4/15/-, to £5/10/-; fat I’.A. heifers. £5/17/6 to £6/12/6; weauer heifers. £2/16/-, £3, to £3/3/-; Jersey heifers, r.w.b., £5 to £5/7/6. i Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report sales as under: —Fat lambs, 19/9; fat ewes, 18/7, 18/9, 19/2, 19/3, 20/3, 21/-; fat S.D. wethers, 26/9 ; fat 2-tooth wethers. 24/6 ; fat 4-tooth wethers, 28/7, 29/6; ewe lambs, 19/4, 19/8; wether lambs, 12/-, 17/2; m.s. lambs, 14/6; 2-tooth ewes, 23/4, 24/6; 4-year ewes, r.w. S.D. rams 28/6; breeding ewes, r.w. S.D. rams. 22/1, 24/6; empty ewes, 8/-, 11/6, 12/10. 13/-; dairy heifers, r.w.b., £2/10/-, £3; dairy cows, r.w.b., £2/15/-; dairy cows, calved, £7; weniier Jersey bulls, 15/-; store heifers. £2/12/-; store cows, £1 17/6, £2/10/-, £2/15/-. £3/6/-; I’.A. heifers, £2; fat bullocks, £B/12/6; fat I’.A. bullocks, £9/18/6; fat cows. £3 ; £3/12/6; fat heifers, £6/15/-; fat hellers, dairy sorts, £4/10/-, £4/12/6; fat cows, dairy sorts. £2/15/-, £3/3/, £3/5/-, £3/12/6, £3/15/-; vealers, 10/-, £l/17/-. The N.Z. Farmers’ Co-op. Dist. Co., Ltd., made sales as follow: —-Fat sheep: Fat lambs, 17/6, 18/3, 19/10, 20/9, 21/-, 22/-, 22/7; fat wethers, 23/3, 24/-, 24/6, 25/6, 27/-, 28/-; fat ewes, 15/6, 17/-, 18/9. 19/3. 20/-. Fat cattle: Fat I’.A. billlocks, £9/10/-, £9/15/-. £lO. £lO/6/-; fat S.H. bullocks. £ll ; fat cows (dairy sorts), £3. £3/10/-, £4, £4/5/-, £4/15/-; vealers, 26/-, 30/-. £2. £2/12/-. Store sheep: 4 and 5-year ewes, r.w. S.D. rams, 21/(5, 25/6; 2 and 4-tooth ewes, r.w. R. rams. 26/4; ewe lambs, 22/7, 23/6, 24/-. 26/10; w.f. wether lambs. 12/1. 13/6, 14/6, 16/3. 17/-; fattening ewes, 8/-, 8/6. 9/6, 10/-, 12/-. Store cattle: 20nionth I’.A. steers, £6/19/-; 3-year I’.A. steers, £7/10/-; empty I’.A. cows, £4 16/-. £5; potter cows. 30/- to £2/13/6. Dairy cattle: Heifers, r.w.b., £4. £4 15/-, £5. £5/10/-, £5/17/6; springing cows, £4/5/-, £4/10/-, £5, £5/5/-. Reporting on the weekly Feilding stock sale yesterday, Abraham and Williams state that the tone remained firm on recent rate throughout every section. In the store sheep section, a good yarding of reliable breeding ewes of all ages was submitted, the demand for these being sound. Ewe and wether lambs also sold freely at late rates. A heavy yarding of fat ewes, of which the quality on the whole was not up to the usual standard, resulted in values suffering accordingly, but prime ewes made late rates. In the fat lamb section, values ruled -in accordance with the quality of the offering. An average pen of dairy cattle was submitted, making rates on a par with recent, values, but for good quality Jersey heifers, the market showed signs of hardening, although a heavy yarding of fat cattle, comprising mainly cows ex dairy, met only a fair market, while odd pens of station-bred cows and bullocks sold at about freezing parity. A fair yarding of slation-bred cattle met a sound demand at slightly reduced rates to those ruling recently, but nevertheless, practically a total clearance was effected.

Following are the firm’s quotations:—

Fat sheep: Fat ewes, 17/2, 17/7, IS/-, IS/0, IS/S, 19/1, 19/2, 19/5, 19/8, 19/11, 20/5; fat wethers, 24/4, 24/0, 24/7, 26/0, 20/9, 28/-, 28/0; fat lambe, 15/0, 17/-. 17/8. 20/-, 20/9, 21/-, 21/7. 22/4, 22/7. 25/9. Store sheep: Ewe lambs, 15/10, 23/-, 27/7; wether lambs, 16/9; b.f. lambs, 14/10: two-tooth to four-year owes, 30/-; font- and five-year ewes, 27/1, 27/9; forward wethers, 24/-. Fat cattle: P.A. cows, £4/5/-, £5/5/-; .Tersej' bullocks, £5/2/0; realers, £2, £2 7/6; runners, £3/14/-, £4/3/-; fat cows, £2/12/0. £3/1/-, £3/7/0, £3/17/-, £4, £4/2/0. £4/10/-. £5/2/0. Store cattle: Cows, 30/-, 37/-. £2, £2/7/-, £2 15/-. £2/17/-. £3, £3/2/0. £3/5/-: 20months P.A. steers. £4/15/-; 3-J-year P.A. steers, £7/11/-; 20-months P.A. heifers, £4/17/-; S.IT. heifers. £4/10/-. Dairy cattle: Springing heifers, £3. £3/12/0. £4. £5/5/-; cows in milk, £2 2/0, £2/10/-, £3, Dannevirke Sale Dannevirhe, May 22. At the weekly Dannevirke stock sale held yesterday, prices on the whole showed signs of easing, this tendency corresponding with the results at recent sales in neighbouring markets. Dalgety and Company report having sold 100 four and five-rear ewes nt 23/-; 60 two-tooth to six-tooth owes. 27/9; fat Jersey cows, from £2/10/- to £3/10/-: sundry smaller pens of both sheep nnd cattle at late ra tos. The Hawke's P,nv Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association. Ltd., report that they offered a fair yarding of both sheep nnd cattle. Prices obtained were on a par with recent sales. They quote ns fidlow; Fat owes. IS/G to £l/0/6: fnt lambs, 24/1 ; f. nnd f lambs. 16/6 to 18/5: store ewes. 5/- to 12/6: fat cows. £3/15/- to £4/10/-: springing heifers. £4. £4/10/-. £5: store cows. £2 to £2/10/-: weaner Jersey heifers. £l/10/-, £l/15/-; bulls. £l/8/- to £4/10/-. WANGANUI AIRPORT Week-end Activity / Wanganui. May 24. Them was much flying activity at the Waniranui airport during the week-end. Mr. E. Liverlon. of Wellington, arrived and departed on Saturday. making a special rush trin to convey films to a local theatre. Mr. V. Tennant, nf Waitotara. left for Wellington on Saturday, and returned to-day. Mr. K. Mehrten. with n passenger from Ila worn, paid a short visit to port to-day, and returned this afternoon.

Club pilots carried many passengers for flights during the afternoon, the, excellent visibility enabling wonderful view<s to be obtained of Mount Egmont. National Turk and the Tara run Mountains.

Dividing Britain’s “picture-fans” into occupations, the greatest proportion are clerical workers, followed by those employed at home, professional people and industrial workers.