LIVE STOCK SALES WESTFIELD

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 202, 24 May 1945, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES WESTFIELD

(By Telegraph. — Press association. 1 AUCKLAND, May 23. Though there were fewer sheep penned at the M'estfleld stock sale today, competition was keen, with values improved. Prices for beef'were firm and there was a ready demand. Lambs and calves were in average numbers and met with a steady sale. Stores were not wanted, but prices were firm for fat pigs. There was a ready demand for average numbers of beef mid values were very firm at late quotations. Extra choice ox, to £2/4/-; choice and prime, £2 to £~ 3/-; ordinary, £l/10/- to £l/10/-: extra prime heifers, to £2/1/-; choice and prime, £l/15/- to £2; ordinary cow, £'-/M’/to £l/14/-; extra heavy prime steers. £lB 10/- to £l9/5/-; heavy prime £l7 to £lB 7/0: medium, £l5/10/- to £l6/17/0: Rghti £l3 to £l5/7/0; small and unfinished. £8 to £l2/17/6; extra, heavy prime cow and heifer £l2 to £l3: heavy, £lO to £U 17/6: 'medium, £B/10/- to £9/15/-; light, £7 to £B/7/6; small and unfinished’ £4 t °Coinpet / ltion was keen for sheep and less than average numbers were penned. Values improved on last week's sale- Extra heavy prime wethers, £2 to £2/1/-: heavy, £1 15/- to £l/17/9; medium, £l/16/- to £1 17/0; light and prime f 1 to -1 15/0: plain and unfinished, £l/7/- to £1 12/9: extra heavy prime young and maiden ewes. £l/8/- to £l/13/-: heavy. to £l/7/-; medium, £l/3/0 to £l/4/6. light. £l/2/- to £l/3/3; just killable. IJZto £l/1/-: others, 10/- to IS/-. There was an average penning of lambs, and values were firm. Extra heavy Jambs £l/12/- to £l/14/0: heavy, £l/10/- to £l/11/6: medium. £l/8/- to £l/9/6: light. £l/5/- to £l/7/9; smaller, £U 3 . to .-1 4/9; tinlinisliei' best 18/- to £l/2/6, othCI of calves met with n steady sale, with values fully firm at late quotations. Runners. £0 to —9/7/6. heavy vealers. £6/5/- to £7/8/-: medium. £5 to £6; light, £3/15/- to £4/1/-: small. £l/1/- to £3/10/-: unfinished and bucketfed. £1 to £l/15/-: bobby and rough. 10/ t °’l’iierc was a smaller yarding of pigs with prices firm for fat pigs, though stores were not wanted. Choppers, -1/I.>/- to £7/17/0: heavy prime baeoners. t° £.“".)/-; medium. £4/12/- to £■>/•)/-. R'-ht-£3/18/- to £4/I°/-: ell 10/- to £3/17/-: medium. £3/16/- to £3 18/-- lie-lit. £2/5/- to £2/15/-: small nnd unfinished. £l/18/- to £2/4/-: stores. £1 14/- to £2/4/-: slips, 16/- to £l/5/-; weanprs, to IS/-. ADDINGTON (Bv Telegraph —Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 23. There were reduced yardiugs ot tat stock ut Addington today. The fat cattle mar ket showed a sharp easing, but fat ined-ium-welght wethers maintained recent values. The store sheep were mostly cull lots ami sold accordingly. The slore sheep entry was 3441, including 1904 lambs. Tlie quality generally was only moderate, and tlie bulk ot the offering showed the effects of the recent bad weather, which also affected prices. Good lambs sold al late rates, but , inferior sorts were dliheult to l l l 'lt- IKt best price for ewe lambs was .’<>/-. and for wether lambs 20/4. There were only a few pens of ewes in lamb, one of young sheep iiiaking 23/0. Two-tooth wethers sold up to 28/-. The fat sheep entry was about .>OOO against 6000 last week, including several pens of prime wethers, whieh sold from 45/4 to 49/1. Freezing ewes sold well up to schedule, the best making from 23/- to •>B/4. Best young ewes sold up to 31/6. The fat cattle entry was 630. against <ll last week. The quality fell short of recent standards. Except for a few prime pens ot steers and also heifers, tile market was depressed from the outset, being down tor nnllnished steers by about .20/- a bend. Passings of seeomlary steers were niimerotis. Best beef made to 42/- per 1001 b.: good to 3(1/-; sccolldtiry. to 28/-. Exira prime steers made £32/3/0; prime, ~i-' to 617/5/-: extra prime heifers, to £l4 n/tl: prime, £9/10/- ..to £ll/10/-: extra prime cows, to The vanling of porkers was much Rtn-jllor’than for several weeks. Good qualh" gs again sold well, but others were Itiird to ipiit- .Choppers were In beay snpplv, anti prices eased b\ 10/- to -0/ ■i tea'll Baeoners were in small numbers ml the sale was the Iw-st for some lime'. The average price per lb. was Vd. to 9}d.

STORTFORD LODGE HASTINGS. May 23. Willi the exception of lop hunts, which eomniainl.■<! firm selling, there was little eluiu-e in today’s store sheep market at Storlford Lodge. The breeding ewes were mostly aged, inferior sorts and were not wanted. No big-framed wethers were offered the best being medium-grown lots from' Elstliorpe district, and they sold on a sound market. A top Hue of woolly lambs from Atua. sold nt 22/4. medium lots handling well, making from 17/0 to IS/-- extra good early shorn wether lambs. •>n/t’- others, off lii'-’li country, very sound, IT/-- Down cross lambs. 18/10; others, .smaller 15/9: young mixed aged ewes. '>;;/-• light and inferior. 14/6 to 16/3: empty forward ewes for fattening 10/-: two I'ooth wctliei'e. medium grown, good order. 2it'l to 27 ■ <>. Fat sheep showed a sharp rise of upward of 10'- a head, (he short yarding bein'' insufficient to meet butchers’ requirements. Heavy ewes sold at from •'5/1 to 27/(1: medium, to 21/1: plain, down hi 15/-; heavy wethers. 35/4 to .'lO/l; medhim to 30/1: light, down to 27/10; hog ■sets’ 22/- to 25/4: heavy lambs. 30/- to 31/-'; light, to 27/7; small, 23/10; m.a.

ewes 25/4: maiden two-tooths. 27/10 to 28/10; extra prime, 31/7: prime. J../10 to 20 There was a firm tone about the store e'lttle market. The attendance ot buyers was much larger than usual In the small yarding of 300 bend the feature wa> iin outstanding line of weaner steers which realized £5/S/-. A forward line of Hillocks from Gisborne made £ll/12/and empty cows from the same station «<d.l nt £7/1/-. Rates- were firm on late quotations for a good yarding of 220 head of beef. The offerings were females main lv. An outstanding draft of Hereford ox from Mnt.'ipirt sold to £l7/18,0. In the females Hie outstanding oll’ering was an ..ven line of heifers, which sold to £ll p;/.. Jersey cows in the same drnit made 011/3/0: ex-dulry cows, prime. y./IS/li nlatn £5/0/0; boners, to £o/8/(>; well grown vealers. to £6/18/-; medium grown, to £4/17/-; small, down to 00/--