LIVE STOCK PRICES
AN IMPROVEMENT Addington Market (Our Own Correspondent). CHRISTCHURCH, October 3. Generally prices showed an improving tendency at the Addington livestock sale to-day. Spring lambs were in good supply, and had a firm salt* for al- good prime lots. • There was a medium yarding <l‘ mutton, while there was a. firmer demand by l,s a head all round. There was ;i good sound sale ’in aE grades for .store sheep. The beef yarding numbered ju 1 under 50(1 head, coming from all districts. AH grades were represented. Values were a shade easier at the com. niencement of the sale, with a tendency to firm at the concluding stages. Values per hundred pounds were as. follows: Extra prime medium weighi: steers to 31s, heavy 26s to 28s. prime 28s to 30s, medium 24s to 265; best cows and heifers to 265. prime 23s ti 255, medium from 225: old cows from 18s. ’There was a large yarding of fat pigs. Tt waisi a firm, hut erratic, sale. Porkers and haveners were firm at a slighj increase in vales. Prices were: Porkers 30s to 35s Gd, heavy 37s Io 445, average s:{d Ito 6]d per lb; bacon- (*]■.-< 35s to £3, heavy £3 2s (id to £3 10s 6d, extr ;i to £3 14s 6d, average 5-]d to s : ’d per 11»
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Grey River Argus, 4 October 1934, Page 6
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221LIVE STOCK PRICES Grey River Argus, 4 October 1934, Page 6
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