SHEEP MARKET RATES MAINTAINED AT MATAWHERO

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23083, 22 October 1949, Page 8

SHEEP MARKET RATES MAINTAINED AT MATAWHERO

Fat sheep came forward in fairly good numbers at the fortnightly stock sale at the Matawhero saleyards yesterday, but the store section again was poorly supported in regard to entry. Sheep out of the wool were in the majority. Shorn ewes in the fat section sold at firmer values, but all other classes of fat and store sheep maintained late rates. Young fat ewes, off the shears, made from 3ls to 31s 7d, medium sorts 27s 6d to 295, and lighter 25s 3d to 26s 6d. There was a fairly good top of goodcutting ewes. ’Down 2-ths without the wool, made from 28s to 325. Woolly ewes sold at from 30s to £2. Woolly hoggets made 445. Tire top shorn fat wethers ranged from 40s 6d to 425, medium and young wethers 34s 3d to 35s 9d. and lighter 2-ths to 325. Woolly wethers sold at 50s. In the store section, good woolly wether hoggets, on acocunt of Mr. R. J. Bade. Patutahi. made 44s 6d and the only other line of any consequence sold at 41 s from the Mclldowie Partnership. Woollv ewe hoggets on account of Mr. Fade fetched 47s 2d. They were a wellgrown line. Among the entry of ewes, out of the wool, came 39 4-th maiden ewes from the Hiwinui block and they fetched 38s 7d. Two and 4-th maiden ewes realised 36s 3d and a few 'Down-cross 2-ths failed to sell at 30s lOd. Forty-five m.a. ewes with good mouths made 25s Bd. A line of 250 shorn 2-th wethers on account of Mr. S. D. Briant. Patutahi, with the size of 4-ths, fetched 365. The 251 2-ths in the next pen suffered by comparison and were passed in at 31s. Finally, there was a pen containing 207 2-th wethers, a useful line, which did not sell at the 33s Id offered. There was a keen demand for a good entry of pigs, the market being stiffened bv two buyers from the East Coast. As a consequence, weaner values rose about 2s a head on the day. Weaner pigs realised from 37s to £3 5s and stores from £2 7s to £3 Is. No beef came forward.