LIVE STOCK MARKET

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20184, 29 February 1940, Page 13

LIVE STOCK MARKET

BEEF VALUES FIRM SHEEP DEMAND STEADY CALF PRICES HOLD WESTFIELD MARKET (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A slightly larger than average offering of beef at the Westfield stock sale yesterday maintained full late rates under keen competition. Plain and unfinished cows and heifers were a shade easier. Extra choice ox made 37s per 1001 b.. choice and prime 33s to 365, unfinished 28s to 335; prime cow and heifer beef 28s to 355, secondary 23s to 28s. Extra heavy prime steers made £l4 to £l4 10s, heavy £l2 17s 6d to £l3 17s 6d, medium £ll 15s to £l2 17s 6d, light £lO 10s to £ll 15s, and unfinished £6 to £lO 10s; extra heavy prime cows and heifers £9 to £lO 10s, heavy £8 to £9 10s, medium £7 to £7 17s 6d, light £5 10s to £6 17s 6d, aged and unfinished £3 10s to £5 10s. An average yarding of calves met with' a steady sale at prices generally on a par with last week’s rates. Runners made £3 to £7 7s 6d, heavy vealers £4 to £5 2s, medium £3 5s to £4, light £2 15s to £3 ss, smaller £2 to £2 14s, small 18s to £1 19s, bobby and rough 5s to £1 9s. There was a steady sale for 1 a good average yarding of pigs. Values for most sorts remained firm, but unfinished sorts eased. Choppers made £1 10s to £6 Us, heavy baconers £4 Is to £4 12s, medium £3 15s to £4 Is, light £3 10s to £3 15s; heavy porkers £2 10s to £3 ss, medium £2 6s to £2 12s, light £2 to £2 6s, unfinished £l 13s to £2; stores £1 to £1 12s, slips 17s to £1 2s, weaners 7s to 15s. Baconers averaged 6Jd per lb., and porkers 61d to 7-id. An average sheep yarding -met with a steady demand, late rates being maintained. Extra heavy prime wether made 27s 9d to 30s, heavy 26s 9d to 27s 9d, medium 24s 9d to 26s 9d, light 23s to 24s 9d, unfinished 15s to 22s extra heavy prime, maiden ewes 20s to 23s 6d, heavy prime ewes 19s 6d to 21s, medium 17s 3d to 19s 3d, light 15s to 17s 3d, and unfinished 3s to 15s. Lambs in average numbers sold freely at values fully on a par with last sale. Extra heavy prime lambs made 27s to 30s, heavy 24s 9d to 275, medium 23s to 24s 6d, light 19s to 22s 9d, small and unfinished 7s to 19s 9d.

HEAVY SHEEP ENTRY ADDINGTON PRICES FIRM BEEF VALUES RECOVER BACONER PRICES UP (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The heaviest sheep entry of the year came forward at the Addington market yesterday, the total approximating 35,000 head. Of these, about 25,000 were in the stors pens, ewes numbering about 18,000.’ Good sheep, both fine and strong wools, sold at up to ewe fair rates, North Island Romney two-tooths sold at 37s 6d, with numerous other pens of coarse 'wools from the Chathams and elsewhere at 32s to 355. 'The best of the threequarter-bred local twotooth ewes sold at 375, and soundmouthed threequarter-breds to 265. Corriedale-Romney cross four-year-olds sold at up to 27s 4d. Fair-con-ditioned local halfbreds sold steadily at substantially lower prices, but the big proportion of the aged ewes made low prices. However, they met a market. Fat lambs scarcely sold so well as a week ago, butchers keeping their prices down by up to Is a head. The best brought from 27s to 295, with a few tops to 335. Fat sheep comprised about 7000 head. They maintained recent rates until the final stages of the sale, when values slipped back rather pronouncedly, with heavy passings. The 'best wethers made from 27s to 30s, with tops to 345. The best ewes made from 21s to 245, with tops to 265. Export buyers paid up to 16s for light ewes, the market comprising a big showing of this class. Fat cattle were fewer than last week and there was a slight recovery for good steers, other sorts being unchanged. The best steers sold at from £l6 to £l7 10s, with a few tops to £l9, and light, sorts down to £8 10s. Cows and heifers contained little of quality and the best sold at below £ll. Pigs in the porker section receded In price by about 2s a head. They sold at from 41s 6d to 57s 6d, Ihe average price being 63d to 7.1 d per lb. Baconers improved by 2s a head. Frices were from 59s 6d to £4 19s 6d, the average price being 6id to 7d per lb.