ADDINGTON MARKET

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1942, Page 3

ADDINGTON MARKET

VALUES APPRECIATE

CHRISTCHURCH, August 13

Fat stock values rose sharply at the Addington sale, yesterday, as a direst result of a sparse entry of sheep and cattle. Fat pigs, notably porkers, shared in the rise. Store sheep: In the hogget section 296 well-woolled halfbred ewes made 28/9. A pen of wether hoggets made 20/-. The ewe offering was of fair quality, the top price being 29/9 for four-year-old halfbreds in lamb to Southdown rams. Another line of 323 four and live-year-old ewes in lamb to English Leicester rams realised 24/6. Medium ewes declined 1/- to 1/6 a head. A pen of 14 ewes with 14 lambs at loot sold at 14/9 all counted. Best ewes made from 24/6 to 29/9, medium to good from 17/- to 21/-. Spring lambs: The entry was limited to 17, and top price was 44/8, and the best of the remainder ranged from 35/- to 38/10. Fat sheep: There was a reduced yarding of fat sheep, numbering approximately 3000, against 5000 at the previous two sales; prices lor the limited number of wethers were on a par with last week's figures, while ewes advanced by up to 3/- a head, and thus recovered last week’s drop. One line of 108 sold from 46/1 to 47/10, and averaged 46/6; 51 sold at from 45/10 to 48/4, and averaged 47/-. The highest price for ewes was 35/7, 98 making from 33/7 to that figure, averaging 34/6. Fat cattle: The market opened strongly at an advance for all sorts of from 20/- to 25/- a head. There was a disposition for prices to ease slightly in the final stages, but the sale was probably the best of the year. A truck lot of eight steers from C. B. Thacker (Okain’s Bay) averaged £23/13/6, the top pen of two £26/7/6; nine heifers from the same vendor averaged £l5/10/3. An outsize exceptionally prime heifer sold at £22/17/6, and others of show class at up to £2O. Best beef made to from 43/- to 45/6 per 1001 b, good 40/- to 42/6, medium quality 38/- to 39/6. Store cattle: One pen of good coloured three and four-year-old steers realised £l2/8/6, while a line of Black Polled steers brought £ll 16/6. A lien of 20 months’ heifers made £6. Best three and four-year-steers brought from £ll to £l2/8/6, good £9/5/- to £lO/10/-, best 20 months to £6, medium to good £4 10/- to £5/5/-, best cows and heifers up to £6/8/6, good £4/10/- to £5/10/-. Vealers: The sale was on a par to a shade better than the values ruling last week. Large runners £5 16/- to £9/1/-, others £3/18/6 to £5/11/-, good vealers £4/8/6 to £6 6/-, medium £3/6/- to £4/5/-, large calves £2/16/- to £3/10/-, medium 38/- to 52/-. Dairy cattle: Towards the end all classes were a little harder to sell. Best second, third, and fourth calvers made from £ll/10/- to £l4; good from £9 to £lO/10/-, medium and inferior £7 to £B/10/-. The top price for heifers was £l3, good £9 to £ll, medium £6 to £B/10/-. A large consignment of Friesian Spring calvers averaged £7/17/6 a head, the top price being £l5/10/for an extra good cow.

Fat pigs: The entry of porkers was very small, and values from the outset were better by 4/- to 5/- a head. As the sale progressed, value firmed. Light porkers, 48/6 to 55/6. Medium porkers, 57/6 to £3/4/6. Heavy porkers, £3/9/6 to £3/19/6. Light baconers, £4/2/6 to £4/7/6. Medium baconers, £4/12/6 to £4/17/6. Heavy baconers, £4/19/6 to £5 14/6. Choppers from £3/15/- to £7 6/-. Store pigs: The entry was the smallest so far this'season, only 26 pens being yarded. Small and rough

waeners, 10/~ to 13/-. Best from 19/to 24/-. Slips from 18/- to 28/-. Small stores from 32/- to 35/-. Medium stores from 36/- to 38/-; large from £2 to £2/5/-.