ADDINGTON MARKET

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 136, 5 December 1918, Page 4

ADDINGTON MARKET

| <B1 TELKORAHI.— TKSSS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, 4th December. At Addmg^on markot there wero laTgo ontnes of stock, and consequently prices all round «^ero gonenvU*. easier. The fat cattle yarding totalled 595, or more than double the .offerings of late. Thero were 809 fat lambs yarded, the largest entry this seawm. There wore eiffht aud a half races filled with fat sheep. Fat cattle were easier by about £2 to £3 per head. Although fat lambs did not reach last notswlue they met with a very good sale, lho fat sheep sale was somewhat irregular, but prices were on the average down by 2s and 2s 6d per head compared wjth tho weok before, and graziors wero able to operate in unEnishe-cl sheep. Fut piga were eswior. Fat Sheep.-Woolly wothers, 38s to 53s 6d; extra prime shorn wethers, 52s 6d; prime shorn wothers, 37s 6d to 435; medium, shorn, wethers, 34s to 375; lighter shorn wethers, 30s to 33s 6d; shorn merino wethers, 28s; woolly ewes, 38s to 54s 6d; prime shorn owes, '35s to 42s 9d; lighter shorn ewes, 25s 4d to 34s 6d; shorn hoggets, 27s to 28s lOd. Fat liambs.—Extra primo lambs, to 32s 3d; prime, 26s 6d to 30s; medium, 23s to 265; lighter lambs, 19s to 22s 6d. Fat Cattlo.—Fjxtra primo steors; to £26 10s; primo stoers, £18 to £23 15s;'ordinary steers. 513 to £17 10s; uxtra primo heifers, £17 7s 6d; primo hoifers, £14 io £15 10s; ordinary heifers, £10 15s to £13 15s; oztri prime cows, io £19; primo cows, £13 to £15; ordinary cows, £9 19s fed to i'l2 10s. '

Pigs.—Choppors, £5 7s 6d to £10 10s; baoonevs, £4 153 to SS. equal to 9d per 1b; porkern, S3 10s to £5 12a 6d, equal to 9}d to lOd per lb