ADDINGTON MARKET

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 October 1943, Page 3

ADDINGTON MARKET

BEEF VALUES ADVANCE

CHRISTCHURCH, October 21.

Beef values made a sharp recovery at the Addington sale, yesterday, when steers readied £27 and heifers £2O. Bidding for Spring lambs was keen.

Store sheep: Most of the offering were ewes, and the highest price was 41/6 for 183 from Mi' R. W. Wightman, Methven. Other good pens from the same vendor made from 32/6 to 38/-. Another line of 120 from North Canterbury realised 38/3, and medium sheep made from 28/6 to 33/-. The top price for the season, was recorded for wether hoggets, when a pen from Mr Wightman made 33/-, 307 making from 29/- to that figure. With the exception of two pens, the offering of ewes and lambs showed mixed quality, and prices dropped by about 2/6 a head, all counted. An exceptionally good pen of 31 ewes and 31 lambs from Sefton made the best price, 24/-, all counted, and another of 51 ewes and 64 lambs was passed in at 21/-. Medium sheep sold from 13/7 to 15/1, and some inferior lots failed to find buyers.

Spring lambs: The entry of fat lambs was about double that of last week, totalling 530, and included several high-class pens which elicited keen bidding from the trade, but there was an over-supply of light and unfinished lambs. The highest price was 48/1 for two Southdown lambs, and there were many sales between 42/- and 45/- for the primest pens. Medium lambs made from 29/1 to 35/1 and light sold from 20/4 to 25/1. Fat sheep: Extra prime wethers to 58/1. Prime wethers, 47/7 to 53/7. Prime medium-weight wethers, 42/4 to 46/1. Ordinary wethers, 37/7 to 39/7. Extra prime ewes to 58/7. Prime ewes, 45/1 to 49/7. Prime medium-weight ewes, 39/1 to 42/4. Light ewes down to 15/1. The yarding of fat hoggets was up to recent numbers. The highest price was 60/1 for a single hogget, and the best figure for a pen was 47/7, with many sales at from 42/7 to that figure. Medium hoggets made from 34/7 to 39/7, and light 27/4 to 30/1. A pen of shorn hoggets sold at 38/1. Fat . cattle: The entry was again quite insufficient for the demand, and there was a sharp rise in values. These recovered the drop of about 30/- a head last week', and improved by a further 10/- to 15/ ~ a head on the very high market of a fortnight ago. The entry totalled 360 head compared with 484 last week. The market was the dearest of the season. High prices included: W. A. Diedrichs (Lower Kokatahi) 8 steers averaged £3l/10/- (one at £33 17/6); West Coast heifer at £3O/2/6; R. Adamson (West Coast), cow at £24/17/6. Values were:.Extra prime steers, £29 to £34/2/6. Prime steers, £24 to £2B. Prime medium-weight steers, £2O to £23. Medium quality steers, £l6/10/- to £l9. Ordinary steers, £l4 to £l6. Extra prime heifers, £2.1 to £3O/2/6. Prime « J , ers ’ £1“ t° £2O. Medium heifers, £J4 to £l5/15/-. Light heifers to *•l3. Extra prime cows, £lB to £24/17/6. Prime cows, £l5 to £l7 10/-. Ordinary cows, £l2 to £l4 10/-. Light cows to £ll/10/-. Vealers: Good runners, to £l5. Medium to good, £7 to £lO. Large ? a l v ®s, to £6/1/-; medium to good, to £3/11/6; small, down to 8/-. Store cattle: A number of lines of North Canterbury station cattle and one large consignment of 80 head from Marlborough invested the market with more interest than for some time. A pen of 15 yeaning steers of the latter draft made £7/18/6, another of 28 of the same age £5/13/6 to £6/13/6, 21 yearling heifers £5 8/6 to £6/6/-, and 15 heifer .calves at £4/6/-. Other sales were ninej forward conditioned three-year Elack Poll cross steers at £l4/11/-, and a

second pen of nine of the same draft at £l4/8/6, the third pen making £l3/1/-. Other pens were 19 threeyear steers at £9/18/6 to £l2/11/-, and 24 cows at £6/3/6 to £7/1/-. There was a keen sale for goodcoloured fresh young cows, which made up to close on £lO. Dairy Cattle: Two purebred Friesian heifers sold at £24 and £23 respectively. Next heifer price was £l6 for a three-year Red Poll, and others of better class up to £l3 10/-, medium from £B/10/- to £ll 10/-, and others from £6/10/- to £B. Best cows made to £l6, medium from £lO/10/- to £l3/10/-, average cows £8 to £lO, others £5/10/- to £7/10/-.

Fat pigs: Light porkers, 42/6 -to 48/6; medium, 50/6 to 55/6; heavy, 59/6 to £3/7/6. Choppers, £3/18/6 to £9/3/6. Light baconers, £3/10/6 to £3/19/6; medium, £4/2/6 to £4 14/6; heavy, £4/17/6 to £5/3/6; extra heavy, £5/4/6 to £5/9/6. Store pigs: Small weaners, 14/- to 20/-; best, 24/- to 28/-. Slips, 30/- to 33/-. Small stores, 34/- to 36/-; medium, 38/- to 40/-; no large stores forward.