WAIPUKURAU SALE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 273, 2 November 1932, Page 10

WAIPUKURAU SALE

LARGE YARDING OF STORE CATTLE.

A LIFELESS MARKET.

The cattle pens at Waipukurau sale yesterday were filled with store cattle, and a small entry of fat cattle. Competition for beef was much on a par with last week’s sale. The best offer for prime ox beef was £5 5/-, for ■heavy prime P.A. cows £3, and for light-weight Hereford heifers £2 10/6. The offering of store cattle comprised mostly two and three-year P.A. steers, from medium' to low condition, most pens being decidedly undersized for their age. The entry of cattle totalled 950 head, a very small percentage of which was sold. A small pen of fouryear bullocks realised £3 9/-. Twoyear P.A. realised from £1 14/- to £2 14/-, the latter price being paid for a well-grown line of well-bred P.A. steers. Two-year Hereford heifers sold at £1 14/-. The demand for 15-mos. Jersey heifers was very keen, sales being made from £3 3/- to £4 4/-. Exporters are offering 12/6 per hundred for ox beef, and 4/6 for cow beef. Needless to say these prices are not likely to create a brisk demand in the store cattle market. No sheep were yarded in either the fat or store pens, vendors waiting for some indication of prices from exporters. BROKERS’ REPORTS. A large entry of store cattle and a few pens of fat cattle came forward, there being no sheep yarded. Fat cattle sold at low rates and store cattle were practically neglected, very few lines being sold at auction. Prices ranged: Light prime fat heifers £2 10/6, others £2 6/- to £2 9/-; light fat cows (unfinished) £2 1/6; 2-year Hereford heifers 34/-, P.A. heifers 36/-; P.A. cows (empty), 32/-; 3-year empty P.A. heifers (small) £2 4/-; yearling P.A. steers, 34/- to 36/-; grade yearling Jersey heifers, £3 3/to £4 SZBrokers report the following sales N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.—B bullocks £3 9/-, 1 springing Jersey heifer £5 2/6. Dalgety and Co., Ltd.—9 2-yr P.A. steers £2 5/-, 9 (small) at £1 14/-, 11 P.A. cows (empty), £1 12/-, 8 fat cows and heifers £3, 10 yearling Jersey heifers £3 3/-; 1 Jersey cow £2 15/-, 1 2-yr Jersey heifer £1 12/6. Hoadley, Son and Stewart, Ltd.— 1 fat heifer £2 4/6, 1 at £2 6/-, 5 at £2 9/-, 9 at £2 10/6, 2 at £2 10/-, 1 fat cow £1 17/-, 4 at £2 1/6, 22 18months Hereford heifers £1 14/-, 66 2-year steers £2 14/-, 1 weaner steer 16/-, 10 weaner pigs 12/-. De Pelichet McLeod and Co., Ltd.— 7 fat cows £2 5/-. H.B. Farmers’ Co-op. Assn., Ltd.— 2 Jersey steers £1 8/-, 2 Hereford do £1 15/-, 3 steers £1 10/-, 2 heifers £l, 2 P.A. bullocks £3 8/-, 5 steers £3 14/-. 6 P.A. heifers £1 3/6, 1 Hereford do £1 3/6, 29 empty heifers £1 16/6, 20 P.A. steers £1 16/-, 1 Jersey bull £4 2/6, 1 at £2 2/6.