BIG ENTRY OF STORE SHEEP FINDS A STEADY MARKET

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22887, 5 March 1949, Page 10

BIG ENTRY OF STORE SHEEP FINDS A STEADY MARKET

MATAWHERO RATES Store stock remaining unsold when Iho final ewe fair of the season was cancelled last month, because of lack of entries, built up the entry at the weekly stock sale conducted at the Matawhero saleyards yesterday to about the 10,000 mark and met a steady market.

Local buyers operated fairly freely but the main competition came from Hawke's Bay.

There was a small entry of fat cattle. Values quoted for ox beef were from £l2 10s to £ls. a Hereford heifer made £lO tis, and a Jersey cow £O.

In the fat sheen section there was a ! better class of wether than seen for i some time, 187 4 and 0 tbs. sold on , account of Mr. A. Lloyd making 4Us lid. A line of 07 4-th wethers on account ’of Mr. F. A. Shanks, Waingake. made :88s 9d, and 2-ths. were within the 31s iln 82s 9d price range A small pen of i maiden 2-th. ewes sold at 345. Ewes jwere traded at from 24s 7d to 27s (id. ! The main strength of the yarding came in the store section with ewes

and wethers predominating. Any good ; breeding ewes were found to be making ; full ewe fair values. An advertised : entry ol 197 2 th. wethers offered on i account of Mr. Q. Williams. Whatntutu. ; made 38s. They were big-framed and early shorn Other rates ranged from 23s to 85s 7d. Good 2-th. ewes sold at from 28s to 35s Id. the top price being secured by a big-framed line of 100 from Mangatukurau station. Lambs maintained their values and there was some spirited bidding for culls to clean up weed growth in maize. Some of the individual prices were:

. Wether Lambs.—One hundred and I forty-seven, light, from Pehiri hills, 20s (id; 50, small; (17, culls, on account of Potae station, East Coast, 13s; 84, 'Down cross, from Repongaere, 24s (Id; 58, small on account of Tarndale station, 21s: 357 good, on account of Mr. R. Pilmer, Rakauroa, 255. 50. on account of McLean est., Whakarau road, 24s 3d; (17, culls, on account of St. Leger farm settlement. Hangaroa. Ids; 14(1, in good order, on account of Mr. M. T. B. Ilall, Hangaroa. 25s Id; 98, medium, on account, of Mr. P. McHugh, Te Puia, 23s 3d; 1 08. well bred, on acount of Mr. B. J. Iloldsworth, Waikohu. 24s 8d; 1(19 second cut, same vendor, 235; 103, on account of Mr F. A. Shanks, Waingake. 23s 9d 97. top cut. same vendor, 28s 2d. Ewe Lambs. —Fifty-nine, small, 17s 6d: 58, similar description, 24s 3d; 86. m.s., culls, on account of Tarndale station, 17s 7d; 50 on account of C. Redpath est., Rakauroa. 22s 6d; 58, small, on account of St. Leger farm settlement, 17s 10d; 83. fair order, from Pehiri, 23s 9d; 80, m.s., culls, 13s 3d. Two-tooth Wethers.—Fifty-two, good store order, on account of Kaitangata station (p.) 355; 62, medium, 32s 3d; 197. advertised line, good, early shorn, on account of Mr. Q Williams, Whatatntu. 38s; 84 from Wharekopac, 35s Td; 109, medium. 32s 6d; others from 23s to 29s 9d.

Two-tooth Ewes. —One hundred, good, o.i account of Mangatukurau station, 35s Id; 116. medium, from Pehiri, 31s 7d; 75, on account of Baillie est., Wuimata. 335; 97. good order, 33: 291 medium. 30s: 50. on account of Pukeakura station, 30s 7d; others from 28s to 30s.

Mixed-aged Ewes. —Ninety-one, 4 and 5- on account of Mr. C. R. Pyke. Waingake, 28s 9d; 74, 4 and 6-ths., same vendor. 30s 9d: 60. m.a., on account of Mr. -J. Fitzgerald, Ngatapa, 23s 6d: 74, 4 yr, roomy, with condition, on account of Tawhiti stalion. 31s 3d: 115, 6- same vendor, 34s 3d; 72. 5-yr., good mouths, same vendor, 265; 90 m.a. to 6-vr.. mouths down, from Waihirere, 18s; 75, 4-th. to 5-yr., mostly young, on account of Mr. M. McDonald. 32s 6d; 56. aged, fair mouths, 29s 6d; 90, m.a., low mouths, 18s Id; 122. 4-th. to 5-yr., on account of Messrs Mossmnn Brothers. Tiniroto, 31s 6d; 50. aged. 14s 3d; 133.m.a., mostlv young, on account of Kaitangata station. Kanakanaia, 325; 141, 5-yr., on account of Mr. T. R. Lees, Te Aral. 30s 3d; 140, 4, 6 and Bths.. on account of Tawhiti station. 29s 8d: 111. 4-ths., good store order. 39s 6d: 138. 5 and 6-vr., on account of Tarewa station, 265: old ewes from 8s 6d to 16s lOd. There was only limited interest in an average yarding of pigs. Weaners mad" from 14s to 24s 6d; slips, to 27s 6d; and good slips, to 30s.