ADDINGTON MARKET

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 April 1943, Page 8

ADDINGTON MARKET

BEEF VALUES LOWER

CHRISTCHURCH, April 8. With a much larger entry of fat cattle at the Addington Sale yesterday than a week ago, there was a 'further slight fall in values. Twotooth ewes were still in good demand, 'and the best of the aged sheep sold ■ satisfactorily, but for the rest the market dragged. Store Lambs: The highest price for ewe lambs was 24/3 for a line of Corriedales from North Canterbury. Medium to good ewes made from 19/6 to 21/4, and small and inferior sold i’’om 15/3 to 18/-. Best wethers made from 19/6 to 2.1/-, good 17/6 to 19/-, medium 15/- to 16/9, and inferior 10/9 to 11/7. Store Sheep: Of the total yarding of about 15,000 store sheep there were only 1200 two-tooth, including lines of shipped Romney sheep. The sale was exceptionally good, and prices of last week were fully maintained. The

best of the shipped ewes made up to 43/-, good 36/- to 38/6, and medium 26/6 to 28/9. There were several pens [ of halfbred ewes from North Canterbury, and the best of these made up to 40/-. Prices lor the next grade ranged from 25/6 to 31/-, and some pens of inferior sheep sold from .19/6 to 22/6. Freezing buyers took a lot of old and inferior ewes to be dispatched as “potters,” the prices ( ranging from 4/- to 6/-. The best price for shipped ewes was 30/- for a pen of four-tocths, and 150 four, six. and eight-tooths, big framed and early shorn, made 29/-. Fat Lambs: There was only a fair supply of heavy lambs, and any pens of these were eagerly sought after’ by the trade. The freezing buyers were also very busy, and in consequence, the sale was well up to recent standards, and in some cases prices showed an advance on late values. Generally, however, buyers

Kept round about the schedule figure of'lid per lb. The digest price was 27/10 for six heavy-woolled sheep, and other good butchers’ lines sold from 30/- to 36/-. Freezing buyers operated mostly at from 23/- to 27/-, and there were only a few sales below the 20/- mark, while there were no passings.

Fat Sheep: Prime heavy wethers, 37/3 to 40/-. Prime medium-weight wethers, 31/6 to 35/-. Light wethers to 27/-. Extra prime ewes to 24/6. Prime medium-weight ewes 14/6 to 17/6. Light owes. 12/- to 14/-. Fat Cattle: Extra prime heavy steers, £l9 to £2l/17/6. Prime heavy steers, £l6/5/- to £l7/17/6. Prime medium-weight steers, £l3/10/- to £l5/15/-. Ordinary steers, £ll to £l3. Extra prime heifers to £l6 10/-. Prime heifers, £lO to £l4/10/. Medium heifers, £7/10/- to £9/10/-. Light heifers, to £6/10/-. Prime cows, £B/10/- to £lO/15/-. Medium cows, £6 to £7/12/6. Light and aged cows to £6. Best runnel’s made to £6 18/6. medium to £5/2/6, others to £3/10/-; best quality vcalers to £4 18/-; medium, £3/2/- to £3/17/6; others, £2/9/6 to £3. Best calves to 40-, medium 11/- to 21/-, small, 5/to io/-.

Store Cattle: A pen of two-year-old 11 ere ford-cross steers sold at £B/3/6, and a pen of younger similarly-bred heifers made £5/12/6. In an entry of Black Polls, four steers made £7/6/and eight cows £4/18/6. A pen of Hereford-cross cows made £5/13/6. Top price for one well-grown steer was £ll/12/6. A line of 11 Black Polled bulls, made £9/3/6 and an'clher of 12 realised £B. Dairy Cattle: Best second and third calvers made up to £l7, good £ll lo £ 14/1/-, medium £B/10/- to £lO 10/-. In the heifer line, there were few yarded, and tops of .these also made up to £l7, the balance being of a medium quality and prices ranged from £9 to £l2.

Fat Pigs: Light porkers, 48/6 to 57/6. Medium 59/6 to £3/7/6. Heavy £3/9/6 to £3/14/6. Choppers, £3 13/6 to £6/1/-. Light baconers £3 ,17/6 to £4/2/6, medium £4/4/6 to I £4/10/6, heavy £4/19/6 to £5/9/6. Store Pigs: Small weaners, 15/- to 18/-. Best weaners, 19/- to 23/-. Slips 24/- to 28/-. Small stores, 30/- to 33/-. Medium 35/- to 38/-. Large, 45/- to 52/-.