STOCK SALES

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1933, Page 12

STOCK SALES

PRICES AT JOHNSONVILLE

Wright, Stephenson, and Co., Ltd., and Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on the Johnsonville sale held yesterday as follows:I—To1 —To the usual attendance of the public we submitted a heavy yarding of all classes of stock; practically a total clearance resulted. Bullocks and cows were slightly easier, whilst runners and vealers sold well at late rates. Heavy wethers and ewes met with a thill sale and' were hard to quit. Prime lambs sold well at last week's rates, but there was little demand for plain sorts. There will be a double market at next week's sale on account of it being Christmas week. We quote:—Prime extra heavy bullocks, £8 2s, £7 18s, £7 15s, £7 10s; prime heavy bullocks, £7 ss, £7 4s, £7; heavy bullocks, £6 12s, £0 10s, £6 ss, £6; prime heavy cows and heifers, £5, £4 16s, £4 12s,' £4 10s, £4 6a, £4 3s Gd; vealers, £1 18s, £1 lGs, £1 15s, £1 13s, £1 10s, £1 7s Od, £1; prime extra heavy wethers, 22s 6d, 225, 21s (3d; prime heavy wethers, 21s, 19s Gd; medium wethers, 18s 7d, 18s; prime, extra heavy ewes, 14s' 4d, 14s 2d, 14s, 13s lid; prime heavy ewes, 13s 7d, 13s 6d, 13s; medium ewes, 12s 10d, 11s 6d; heavy' spring lambs, 19s '2d, 18s lOd, 18s 2d, 18s, 17s 6d: medium spring lambs, 17s, 16s lOd, 16s 8d; light spring lambs, los, 14s 6d, 14s 3d, 14s, 13s.