ADDINGTON MARKET

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 134, 4 December 1930, Page 28

ADDINGTON MARKET

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHkISTCHUECH, 3rd December. Features of the weekly market at Addington to-day were declines in the prices for fat. cattle, store sheep, and fat pigs, and an increase in the values being paid' for fat sheep. Further, it was the iivst sale of. the season at which the freezing works buyer has operated for export, and the first sale which included store lambs. Store. Sheep.—The entry was not as big as at the last sale. The market was ,' a very dull one, and prices recorded a decline o£ Is up to'ls Cd a head in many cases. There were several Hues entered from Blenheim and the Chatham Islands. Values were: Good four, arid six-tooth Konmey wethers to 15a 3d; medium sorts, 12s-to 13s; ordinary sorts to 10s; medium to good four and v ' six-tootli "halfbred, wethers, lls Cd to Vl2s 6d; ordinary and .small sorts, 7s to 9s; backward sorts, to 6s; good ewes and lambs, to 14s; ordinary sorts, to 7s 9d; two, four, six, and eighttooth crossbred ewes, to 10s'7d; ordinary six-tooth halfbred ewes to Ds; ordinary four, six, and eight-tooth Houmey cross ewes, to 10s Od; wetlfllr hoggets, to U2s 10d; store Jambs, to 10s lOd. Fat Lambs.—The entry was SSO head, as compared with 460 at the last sale. The operations of one freezing buyer for export had a steadying effect.ou the market. There was little change on the basis of values ruling last week, and tlio price per lb varied from 7%d to Sd, and in odd cases up to S'/id. Values were: Extra prime Jambs, to 27s 4d; prime lambs, 23s to 25s Gd; medium lambs, 20s to 22s Od; lights lambs, 17s to 19s fid. Fat Sheep.—The entry numbered 3300 head as compared with 4100 at last market. The sale was a spirited .one in parts owing to the shortness of the entry, and prices were firmer by Is a liead for wethers and up 2s a head for ewes. Values were: Extra prime heavy wethers, to 2Ss lOd; prime heavy wethers, 24s to 27s Cd; medium weight prime wethers, 20s to* 23s Cd; second quality wether.--, ICs to 10s Cd; inferior i^wethers, 12s tid to 15s; extra prime ewes,.to 22s lOd; prime ewes, 20s to 225; medium ewes, 17s to 19s Gd; light ewes, 13s Cd to lCs; aged and inferior ewes, lls Cd to 13s; best woolly ewes, to 225. Fat Cattle. —The entry was 430 head as compared with 325 head last week. Tlio rale was dull a??d the general qualify below the average. There was one line of 41 steers penned from Palmorston North, and^ also one line from Otngo. Values were down by £1 and up to £1 10s a head over the whole sale, and rather less on the North Island consignment, which sold well, and averaged .£l9;

10s a head. Best medium-weight beef made from 41s to 4us 6d per 1001b; heavy beef made from 33s to 375; cow beef from 34s to 38s; secondary beef; from 2Ss 6d to 335; and rougll, down to 245. Values were: Heavy steers, to £1G 7s Cd; prime heavy steers. -£17 10s to £19 10s; prime medium weight steers. £14 to £17; mod-' ium quality steere, £11 to £13 lbs; light steers, £7 10s to £10; extra prime heifers, to £10 2s 6cl; prime heifers, £11 to £13 10s; medimn .heifers, £S to £10 10s; .light heifers; ■ £s'los to. £-7 10s; extra prime cows to £14 12s Cd; prime cows, £10 10s to £13; medium- cows, £7. 10s to £10; light and aged cows,. £5 to £7. Vealers.—The entry was a very heavy one, and the quality was very mixed. Prices all round were from 5s to 6s a head lower, and all but the best sorts were hard to sell. Values were: Best vealers, 50s to 655; good sorts, 30's to 455; medium 22s to -28s; small and inferior, 10s to 20s: runners, to £7 3s Gd. Store Cattle.—There was ;> big yarding, consisting chiefly of a few pens of good coloured' steers and some lines of cows. The market was dull, and fully half the yarding was passed. A" pen of goodcoloured 20-months to two-year Shorthorn steers made £8, and a pen of younger Shorthorns was passed at £7 5s 9d. Another line of rough stcprs, three and four-year-old, sold at £7 2a Cd. and one of yearling Jersey heifers at £30. There were a few cows sold. The yarding of bulls was a full one, and'late rates .were maintained, the top price bein« £7 ss. Dairy Cattle.—There, were 71 head penned, including several attractive lines of heifers. The quality of the coivs was average only. The sale opened with ,a noticeable decrease oil the values ruling at last sale; but as it progressed there was a gradual firming until at the end last week's rates were ruling again. . Values were: Good second and third calvers, £8 to £10; medium second and third calvers, £G 10s to £7 15s; aged and inferior. £2 10a to £5; good heifers, £9 to £14; -medium heifers, £7 to £S; backward heifers, £4 10s to £6. - Fat Pigs.—There was only a medium yarding, but porkers were in over-supply, and the proportion pi choppers was smaller, than usual. Pigs of all classes were easier than at last week's market, the heaviest decline being for porkers. Values were: Choppers, £3 10s to £6 6s 6d; baconers, £3 to £3 8s Cd; heavy baconers, £3 15s to £4: extra-heavy baconers, £4 8s 6d to £4 12s Cd; average price per lh, 5%tl to C'/jd; porkers. 3Ss Od to 47s Gd; heavy porkers, 50s to 57s Gd; average price per lb,. 6^fl to '7'/ul.