ADDINGTON MARKET.

Grey River Argus, 26 May 1922, Page 3

ADDINGTON MARKET.

SMALLER YARDINGS. CHRISTCHURCH, May 25. At this advanced stage of the year fiheep are commencing to ease off. Yesterday the only section in over supply was beef. Store sheep, fat sheep, and 'at lambs were all in smaller numbers. I (•enerally the market was firm at last I kveek’s figures, prime sheep advancing. STORE SHEEP. A much smaller entry, but several large lines of good ewes. Dem-'nd was slack at the outset except for good ewes. An improvement took place, several lines that had passed in early being later quitted at vendors’ reserves. Good ewes were fully up to, and in some cases better, than at last sale. Wethers were firm at late rates. Values Fairly forward lambs, II - to 15/-. Good lambs, 12 - to 13 7. Medium lambs, in'3 to 119. Good halfbred ewe lambs, 20/-. Good crossbred six and eight tooth ?wes, in lamb, 22/6 to 25/-. Good four-tooth halfbred ewes, in lamb, 27 6. Good four-tooth three quarterbred ,‘wes, in lamb, to 25/9. Ordinary four, six, ami eight-tooth ?wvs, in lamb, 18/3 to 20 3. Failing-mouthed ewes, in l.'inb, 10/5 to 14/11. Aged ewes, in lamb, 9/ to 11/. Cull ewes, 3/11 to 6/9. Forward four and six-tooth wethers, 18/7 to 21/8. Ordinary four and six tooth wethers, 13 11 to 17 -. Two tooth wethers, 12/9 to 14/11. FAT LAMBS. A smaller yarding, comprising 3160 head, compared with 4963 last week. Being an end of season yarding, the quality was not outstanding. 1 he bulk were seconds. For all well-finished lambs, the demand was fully as keen / as last week, averaging from 7]d to 7Ad per lb, but second-, sold round about 7|(Vto 7 hl. Exporters secured all but a very small proportion. N nines were: Extra prime lambs, 25/- to 29/10. Prime lambs, 21/9 to 24/6. Medium lambs, 19/- to 21/6. Light and unfinished lambs, 16/- to 18, 9. FAT SHEEP. Only nine races yarded, varied in quality, with more good heavy butchers sorts, both wether ami ewes, but the tail was inferior. The market us a result of the shorter yarding, was brisker from the outset, particularly for wellfinished mutton, which showed an advance of from 1 6 to 2- per head, and more than the latter figure for heaxv ewes, of which there was a good repreBcutatiou forward. Lighter mutton was verv little better, exporters not operating with the same freedom as at previous sales. The sale throughout was a decidedly good one. X slues were: - Kxtra prime wethers, 2\'<> to .I 1 . 1 , . Crime wethers, 21/3 to 2S, 3. Medium wethers, 20/3 to U I, -. Light amt unfinished wethers, 10/6 to 19 V. Extra prime ewes. 21/6 to 27/9. Prime ewes, 20/9 to 24/ . Medium ewes, 15,'- to 19/9. Light and unfinished ewes, 12/6 Io 14 I'. Old ev.es, 9-7 to 11 6. FAT CATTLE. The yarding was again a big one, romp rising -140 head. Some excellently finished beef was represented, but, as usual, the tail was pronounced. The entry included several station lines of more than average quality. Good prime beef sold fully as firmly as last weca, but low grade stuff was as difficult to sell as ever. Only a few butchers took any interest in this class. The market finished firmly for good beef. A few top prices worked out at about 32/6 per 1001 b, but the bulk of serviceable steer beef averaged about 27/6 to 29/-, secondary and cow beef from 20/- down

to 15/-. Values were: — Extra prime sters, .£l4 10 z - to £lB. Prime steers, £lO 10/- to £l4. Medium steers, £7 10/- to £lO 7/6, Inferior steers, £4 10/- to £7 5/-. Extra prime heifers, to £9 17/6. Prime heifers, £5 5/- to £B. Ordinary heifers, £3 2/6 to £5 2/6. Extra prime, cows, to £9 2/6. Prime cows, £5 to £7 10/-. Ordinary cows, £3 to £4 17/6. Old cows, to ,l2 i_ 3. V BALERS. The offering of veal calves was not large, and tin' quality was hardly up to recent sales, there being a dearth of good calves. Prices were an improvement on late rates. Values were: — Runners, to £4 12 '6. Good vealcrs, £3 10,. - to £4 7/6. Medium walers, £1 12/6 to £2 17/6. Small calves, 5/- upwards. STOKE CATTLE. A big entry of store cattle was forward, and, generally, the quality was fairly good. The demand for heifers was not so keen as at recent sales. Values were:— Four-year-old steers, £5 5/- to £6. Three-year-old steers, £3 to £3 15/-. Two-year-old steers, £2 to £2 5/-. Yearling steers, £1 10/- to £2. Two-year-old heifers, in calf, £4 !.»/- to £5 5/-. Yearling and eight eon-months-old. heifers, £2 10/- to £3 5/-. Medium cows, £1 7/6 to £1 12/6. Poor cows, 15/- to 20/-. DAIRY CATTLE. Th ('re/was a large yarding of dairy cattle,- but most of theni were ot in fcrior quality. All round prices were lower than last week, but good cows just calved, or close to calving, sold well. Values were: — Good second ami third culvers, to £l5 5/-. Ordinary second and third culvers, £7 10/- to £ll. Good springing. heifers, to £l3. Ordinary springing heifers, £5 to £8 10/-. Gows in milk, £5 to £9. Aged and. inferior cows, 10/- to £3 10/-. FAT PIGS. There was a little smaller entry of fat pigs, and the market was rather brighter than the previous week. Values we re: — Choppers, £3 to £4 15/-. Light baconers, £3 5/- to £3 la/-. Heavy baconers, £4 to £4 7/6. Extra heavy baconers, to £4 13/6. Average price per lb, 6jd to 6Ad. Light porkers, £1 15/- to £2 5/-. Heavy porkers, £2 10/- to £2 17/6. Average price per lb, 7Ad to Bd. STORE PIGS. A medium yarding of store pigs was forward, ami the values showed little change from last week. Values were: Large stores, to £2 10/ . Medium stores, El 3/- to £1 8/-. Wenners, 6/- to 12/-.