STOCK SALES

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 142, 12 December 1935, Page 22

STOCK SALES

BEEF PRICES EASIER

To an average attendance of buyers Wright, Stephenson and Abraham andj Williams submitted a good yarding of both cattle and sheep at Johnsonville yesterday. Prime heavy bullocks met with keen competition, but owing to a drop in the wholesale price of beef prices were again easier by 15s to £1 per head. Plain and unfinished sorts were hard to sell even at very low prices. Several pens of prime heavy cows and heifers were yarded, but here again prices were easier, though not to the same extent as with the ox beef. Dairy sorts were hard to sell. A small yarding of runners and vealers sold well at late rates. A goo 4 yarding, comprising chiefly heavy wethers with a few pens of light weight sheep, met with keen competition at prices on a level with last, week. There was a smaller yarding of ewes than usual; the yarding consisted mainly of good heavy sheep, which sold on a par with last week. Plainer sorts were easier to the extent of Is to Is 6d per head. Owing to the poor quality of hoggets yarded they were hard to quit even at reduced rates. A large, yarding of lambs of all grades came forward and met with keen competition at prices slightly better than export rates. Quotations: — Prime extra heavy bullocks, £11 17s. £41 15s. £11 4s, £11; prime heavy bullocks, £10 10s, £10 Bs, £10 2s, £9 18s. £9 15s; heavy bullocks, £9 3s, £8 18s, £8 14s, £8 10s; extra prime heavy cows and heifers, £8 14s, £8 f)s; prime heavy cows and heifers, £7 7s, £7 2s, £6 16s,' £6 9s, £6 ss, £5 13s; cows and heifers, £4 14s. £4 10s, £4 6s, £4 2s, £3; runners, £3 2s, £2 10s, £2 Is; vealers, £1 17s, £1 15s, £1 6s, £1 2s, 18s, 14s; prime extra heavy wethers, 25s 6d, 25s 4d, 255. 24s 9d, 24s 7d; prime heavy wethers, 235. 225, 21s 9d; medium wethers. 21s. 18s 6d; prime extra heavy ewes, 17s lOd, 17s 7d, 17s 3d; prime heavy ewes, 16s Bd, 16s Id, 15s lOd; medium ewes. 15s Id. 15s, 14s ]0d; heavy spring lambs. 23s Bd, 22s 3d, 22s 6d, 21s sd, 21s; medium spring lambs, 20s 3d, 20s Id; light spring lambs, 18s Id, 17s 6d, 17s Id, 16s lid. MASTERTON YARDING. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having submitted a small yarding of sheep to a fair attendance of buyers at the Masterton sale yesterday. Two and four-tooth wethers brought from 16s Gd to 20s 6d.