STOCK SALES

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 107, 2 November 1933, Page 14

STOCK SALES

JOHNSONVILLE PRICES

Wright, Stephenson, and Co., Ltd., and Abraham ana Williams, Ltd., report on Johnsonville sale held yesterday as follows: —To a full attendance of buyers we submitted an average yarding- of\ all classes of stock, Luttle: Xlie quality of the yarding was up to the usual standard, prime heavyweight bullocka were easier, us compared witu lust week's rates, whilst medium weight cattle were on a par. Cows and heifers snowed a slight decline, whilst runners and vealers, which were yarded iv small numbers, met with a keen sale. fclieep: The yarding comprised mostly shorn sheep with a few pens of woolly wethers. Prices showed no alteration on late rates. Lambs met with a ready sale at prices a little above export parity. We quote:—Prime extra heavy bullocks, £8 10s, £8 Bs, £8 ss, £8; prime heavy bullocks, £7 IDs, £7 10s, £7 as, i'J 3s, £7, £6 17s; extra prime heavy cows and heifers, £<i ss, £0, £5 17s, £5 15s; prime heavy cows and heifers, £5 10s, £3 6s, £5 2s 6d; runners, £3 ss, £3 is, £3 2s, £3; vealers, £2, £1 19s, £1 14s, £1 7s; prime extra heavy wethers, woolly, 28s od; shorn, 23s Od, 23s Bd, 235, 22s lid, 22s 6d; prime heavy wethers, shorn, 21s, 20s; prime extra heavy ewes, Bhorn, 17s, 10s 7d, 16s 3d, 16s Id; woolly, 21s, 20s 3d, 20s; prime heavy ewes, shorn, 15s lid, 15s 9d, 15s 6d, 15s 3d, 15s; heavy hoggets, shorn, 21s 3d, 21s, 20s 7 lOd, 20s 0d; woolly, 235; light hoggets, shorn, 17s Id, 16s 6d; heavy spring lambs, 245, 235, 22s 9d, 225, 21s; medium spring lambs, 19s, 18s, 17s lOd, 1/s 7d, 17s Id; light spring lambs, 16s, 15s, 14s 2d