FAT EWES DEARER

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20601, 31 October 1941, Page 6

FAT EWES DEARER

REACTION TO SCHEDULE PRICES AT MATAWHERO The clarification of the export value of fat stock made last night brought a response in the small yarding of fat sheep at the Matawhero stock sale to-day, when fat ewes rose in value by about Is per head compared with last week.

Under 200 fat sheep were yarded, most of them being shorn ewes, which sold from 9s to 12s (id, while a pen of of unshorn reached 17s and a pen of second quality unshorn 12s. Five unshorn hoggets were sold at 19s 9d and a pen of shorn wethers were passed in at 18s 9d. Prices: —

Ewes.—Twelve, 12s; 25, 12s (id; 17, (l>) 10s fid; 10, 9s Sd; 9,9 s 9d; 4, unshorn, 17s; 27, (p) 11s 7d; 22. (p) 11s; 17, (p) 12s 2d; 12, 9s; 10, 12s 2d. Second Quality: Six, unshorn, 12s. Hozeets. —Five, unshorn, 19s 9d. Wethers.—Eleven, (p) 18s 9d. Store Sheep

The store sheep yarding totalled 400, including three fairly large pens. _ Most of the sheep on offer were ewes with lambs, and as these were the first for some weeks to come into the yards there was little basis for comparison, but 25s 8d for a line of 43 ewes with 51 lambs, some of them early, seemed fair value. The remainder were passed in, including one pen of 114 ewes with 125 lambs at 28s 9d. A pen of 212 two-tooth wethers brought 16s lOd. Prices:— Ewes with Lambs.—Forty-three ewes, of fairly good frames, 51 lambs (24 ewes and 27 wethers), some early, 25s Sd; 114 wellframed ewes with 125 lambs, some early, (p) 28s 9d; 5 ewes, well framed, with 5 late lambs, one ewe yet to lamb, (p) 20s 3d; 20 ewes, fair frames, 20 mid-season lambs, (p) 20s. Wethers Two hundred and twelve, 2-tooth fairly well-grown, very fair order, (p) 10s lOd. ileef Market The beef market was unchanged for a small yarding. Three P.A. cows sold at £7 and another at .£5 17s. P.A. runners brought £4 Is and : £4 (is, and vealers £2 2s.