WELLINGTON WOOL SALES.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 744, 3 December 1908, Page 4

WELLINGTON WOOL SALES.

[FEE PBEBS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, December 2. ; Tlie catalogues for Friday's wool sales at Wellington (the second of the ! season) total 7503 bales. ADDINGTON MARKETS. Christchurch, December 2. At tlie Aldington live stock market to-day there were good entries of stock, and there was a fair attendance of buyers.. For fat sheep the range of prices was: Woolly wethers, 19s 8d to 22s 3d ; best shorn wethers, 15s to 18s 6d ; lighter, 13s to 14s 6d; best shorn ewes, 14s to 16s,- medium, 12s 6d to 13s 6dj others, 11s to 12s; shorn memo wethers, lls 6d to 12s 3d. Cattle.— Yearlings 30s to 40s; 2year steers, £3 ssj 2-year heiferg, £2 17s 6d; 2j-year steers, £4 10s to £5; l&-year steers, £5 10s to £5 12s 6d; 3J-year steers, £7 10sj 3-year heifers, £3 10s ; empty cows 35s to £4 10. Dairy cows were dull of sale at £3 16s 6d to £8 ss. Steers, £6 5s to £9 17s 6d; heifers, £5 to £9 15s; and cows, £4 15s to £7 12s 6d, equal to 24s to 26s 6d, medium 20s 6d to 23s 6d, and cow and inferior 18s to 20s per lOOlbs. Pigs. — Choppers sold up to £3; heavy baconere, 57s to 67s 6d; land lighter 47s 6d to 55&, equal to 6jd

to 5} per lb ; porkers 35s to 435, equal to 5Jd per lb; large stores 32s to 33s 6d; medium, 28s to 31s; large woanors, 18s to 225 ; smaller 13s to 16s.