COMMERCIAL. FAT STOCK CHEAPER AT ADDINGTON

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 March 1946, Page 10

COMMERCIAL. FAT STOCK CHEAPER AT ADDINGTON

Owing to congestion at freezing works, buyers operated .cautiously in the fat sheep and lamb sales at Addington yesterday, and values dropped. The largest offering of adult store sheep for the season was forward and values were slightly easier than they were last week. Store Sheep.—About 27,000 adult sheep were entered and 5000 lambs. The best sheep had a good market at recent rates, but others showed a drop on last week’s, prices, Openwoolled two-tooths were in demand and made 40/- to 53/-, but finewoolled made only 25/- to 30/-. Good lambs made from 16/- to 20/6, medium from 12/6 to 15/6, and small, backward and inferior from 8/- to 12/-. Fat Lambs.—Export buyers operated in limited fashion and lighter lambs slackened. Prices for best lambs improved under keen competition from local butchers. Values were: Extra prime lambs, 39/7 to 40/7; prime, 33/10 to 35/-; good, 27/9 to 30/7; medium, 24/3 to 27/4; inferior 16/- to 19/6. Best price of the sale was 40/7.

Fat Sheep.— Values dropped about 1/- a head, despite good quality entries. Values were: Extra prime heavy wethers, to 45/7. Prime heavy wethers, 37/- to 40/-. Prime me-dium-weight wethers, 30/- to 35/-. Light wethers, 24/- to 28/-. Extra prime ewes, to 34/7. Prime ewes, 18/- to 25/-. Medium ewes, 13/- to 17/6. Light ewes, to 12/6. Fat Cattle. — The entry was of mixed quality and prices were erratic. Best beef made to 50/- per 1001 b; good 44/- to 46/-; medium, 40/- to 42/-; cow, t0.35/-; and secondary to 30/-. Values were: Extra prime steers, to £23/17/6. Prime steers, £l7/7/6 to £lB/12/6. Prime medium-weight steers, £l5 to £l6 10/-. Ordinary steers, £ll/10/- to £l4/10/-. Extra prime heifers, to £l5/17/6. Prime heifers, £ll/7/6 to £l3. Medium heifers, £9/10/- to £ll. Others, to £B. Prime cows, £ll to £l2/12/6. Good cows, £8 10/- to £9/15/—. Light, to £6/10/-. Vealers. —The entry was large but the quality only fair. Values eased slightly but a total clearance was made. Values were: Large -runners, £6/8/6 to £B/13/6; others, £4/16/to £6/3/6; best suckers, £4/13/6 to £6/6/-; medium, £3/11/- to £4 11/-; large calves, 48/- to 70/-; medium, 30/- to 45/-; small and rough, 8/- to 28/-. Store Cattle. — Dry weather has affected the demand but some attractive lines sold well. Some two-and-a-half-year-old Friesian heifers made £ll/13/6. This, with £l3/3/6 for 14 three-year-old Hereford steers, was the best price of the day. Dairy Cattle.— Among the best class of cows some sales were made at £l9 and £2O, with one at £25 and one at £26. Best heifers, generally made £l6 to £2O; medium to good heifers made £ll/10/- to £l5 10/-; small and backward sorts, £8 to £lO/10/-; best second, third, and fourth calvers (apart from the sales aboveh £l3 to £l7/10/-; good average sorts, £9 to £l2/10/-; aged, inferior, and unattractive sorts, £5 to £B/5/-. Fat Pigs.— Values were easier by 3/- to 4/- a head in the porker section and by £1 to £2 for choppers. Bacon entries also dropped 2/- to 3/a head. Values were: Light porkers. £3/7/6 to £3/13/6. Medium, £3 16/6 to £4/1/6. Heavy, £4/2/6 to £4/10/6. Choppers, £5/18/6 to £l3/1/-. Light baconers, £4/14/6 to £5/2/6. Medium, £5/4/6 to £5 9/6. Heavy, £5/12/6 to £5/19/6. Extra heavy, £6/2/6 ,to £6/9/6. Average price per lb, 8:;d to Old. Store Pins.— The demand for stores eased 4/- to 5/-, but weaners improved by 3/- to 4/- a head. Values were: Small weaners, 12/- to 16/-; best, 17/- to 20/-; slips, 24/- to 30/-; small stores, 35/- to 40/-; medium, '45/- to 52/-; large, 55/- to 60/-. WOOL CONFERENCE

(N.Z.P.A. special Correspondent.)

LONDON, March 20

It is officially announced that the council of the International Wool and Textile Organisation will meet on April 1 and 2 to take steps to resume the work of the organisation which was interrupted by the war. The organisation consists of commercial representatives of the principal woolconsuming countries of Europe who, as a result of co-operation through this body, did valuable work in securing the establishment of certain uniform standards and various measures of unification in commercial practice. The organisation also acted as the mouth-piece of wool-consuming countries in their pre-war consultations with wool-producing countries. The represented at. next month’s meetings in London will be Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Italy, and Argentina. The wool-producing Dominions will be represented by observers from the International Wool Secretaricit. M. Maurice Debrulle (France) will preside. As president of the organisation, he lately visited Britain for preliminary arrangements for the conference. The secretary of the organisation is Mr. D. G. Price, Bradford, who is also secretary of the wool export group which functions under statutory authority in Britain in matters affecting the export of wool products. At the last conference held in Brussels in June, 1939, Germany was also a member, but she is not mentioned among those to take part in the April meeting.