COMMERCIAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 June 1924, Page 8

COMMERCIAL.

STOCK SALES. WESTFIELD MARKET. (by TELEGRAPH —PRESB ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, June 25. Beef was penned in large numbers. Good quality was firm at late quotations. Inferior was again dull. Extra choice oxen, 28s per 1001 b; choice and prime, 28s to 275; plain and unfinished, 16s to 225; prune young cow and heifer, 22s to 255; other cow beef, 16s to 295; rough beef, Ids to los; heavy prime steers, £'l2 to £l6; medium prime, £9 os to £ll los; light prime, £7 to £9; smaller and unfinished, £5 ,l(Js to £6 17s 6d; heavy prime cows and heifers, £7 to £9 10s; medium prime, £5 to £6 17s 6d; light prime cows and heifers, £3 10s to £4 17s 6; forward 'fleshy, £2 os to £3 os; poorer, £1 os to £2. Calves.—Less tlnuf average numbers. They improved in values. Runners, £2 13s to £3 10s; medium vealers, £1 18s to £2 10s; light veaiers, £1 los to £1 16s; smaller, 18s to £1 Is; small and fresh dropped, os to los; rough, from, 12s to 18s. Sheep.—An average number, which sol dat late quotations. Heavy prime wethers. 1 I.Bs to £2 Os 9d; medium, prime, £1 los 6d to £1 17s 9d; light prime, £1 12s to £1 los; smaller and unfinished, £1 7s to £1 11s 6d; heavy prime ewes. £1 9s to £1 12s 6d; medium prime, £1 os to £1 8s 9d; light prime, £1 2s to £1 4s 9d; 'unfinished and aged, 14s to £1 11s. Lambs.—Average numbers, which sold at late quotations. Heavy prime, £1 8s 6d to £1 10s 6d : medium, £1 6s to £1 8s 3d; light, £1 3s to £1 os 9d ; unfinished, best 19s to\ £1 2s 6d : other, 12s to 18s 9d. Pigs.—Less than the average. Prices for porkers improving. Baconers at late quotations. Choppers, £2 12s to £3 10s ; heavy baconers, £3 18s to £4 Is. Light baconers and heavy porkers, £3 8s to £3 16s; medium and light porkers, £2 12s to £3 6s. Store pigs sold at late quotations. Large, £1 os to £1 12s; slips, £1 to £1 18s; weaners, 10s to 18s. ADDINGTON MARKET. CHRISTCHURCH, June 25. Entries to-day were smaller in all classes, and there was an advance fn values of both fat cattle and fat heifers. Fat Lambs: Sound demand at recent rates. Primest lljd. to 114 d, extraprime to 40s 4d, prime 34s 6d to 375, medium 30s 6d to 345. Fat Sheep: A hardening sale throughout, and an advance for good shqen of. 2s per head on last week’s sale. Extra prime wethers to 50s a few pens to 54s 6d, prime 42s to 475, medium 37s to 41s, light 33s to 36s 7d, extra prime ewes 43s Id, prime, ewes 34s to 3Ss, medium 29s to 33s Gd, light 25s to 28s 6d. aged 19s to 245. Fat Cattle: Best beef sold at from 32s 6d to 355. a few pens 36s 6d, lighter from 28s to 31s. The values were up fully 30s per head on last week. Extra prime steers £l6 to £l7, special pens £lB 15s, prime steers £l2 to £ls 10s, medium £9 5s to £ll 15s, light £5 10s to £9, good prime heifers £lO 12s Gd, prime £6 10s to £8 15s. medium £4 to £6 4s, extra, prime cows £l2 ss. prime £6 to £8 10s, medium £4 os to £5 los, old £2 los to £4. Dairy Cattle.—Third and fourth calvers £8 to £l2 I.os, best heifers £lO cows just calved £5 Is to £7 10s, backward calvers and cows in milk (sometime) 30s to £4 ss. ' Fat Pigs: Choppers £3 5s to £7, light baconers £4 to £4 15s, heavy £5 5s to £6, extra heavy £6 10s (average price per lb /Id to BJd per lb), light porkers £2 6s to £2 15s, heavy, £3 to £3 14s (average nrice ner lb 8d to 9d). Store Pigs: "Weaners 11s 6d to 17s 6d, small stores 18s to 235, medium stores 26s to 38s, large 40s to 52s 6d.