ADDINGTON MARKET.

Kaikoura Star, Volume LI, Issue 99, 10 December 1931, Page 2

ADDINGTON MARKET.

The range of- prices at Addington Markets yesterday was as follows: Store Sheep: Ordinary ewes and lambs, to 6/2; good four tooth Romney wethers, 11/6 to 12/6; ordinary four and six tooth halfbred, 5/6 to 7/;, medium, 7/3 to 9/; ordinary two tooth, 6/8 to 7/3; extra good <hree-quarterbred ewe hoggets, Io 17/; extra gqod threequarterbred wethers, 14/4; ordinary two tooth ewes, 8/8 to 9/; good four tooth Romney cross ewes, to 11/9. Eat Lambs: Extra prime lambs, to 24/4; prime, 18/ to 20/; medium, 15/ to 17/6; light, 13/ to 14/6. Fat Cattle: Prime heavy steers, £9 10/ Io £lO 17/6; prime medium weight, £7 to £9; ordinary, £4 15/ to £6 15/; light, to £4 15/; prime heifers, to £8 2/6; medium, £4 5/'to £6 5/; light, £2 10/ to £3 .15/; extra prime cows, to £lO 7/6; prime, £5 to £8; medium, £3 10/ to £4 15/; light, £1 15/ to £3. Fat Sheep: Primo, heavy wethers, to 20/10; medium weight prime, 16/9 to 18/9; ordinary, 14/ to 167; light, 10/6 to 13/6; prime heavy ewes, to 17/4; medium weight prime, 12/9 to 14/9; ordinary, 10/ to 12/; light, 8/6 to 9/6; Dairy Cattle: Good second and third culvers, £7 to £8 5/; medium, £5 to £6 10/; aged and inferior, £1 10/ to £4; good heifers, to £9; medium, £5 to £7 10/; others, £3 to £4 10/. Eat Pigs: Choppers, £2 8/6 to £4 6/; baconcrs, £1 17/6 to £2 4/6; heavy, £2 7/6 to £2 12/6; average price per pound, heavy 33 d, medium 4|d. Porkers 27/6 to 32/6, heavy 33/6 to 34/6; aver* ago price per lb, 4Ad to 5Ad. Store Pigs: Wenners, 6/ to 9/; medium, 10/ to 12/6; extra good, to 15/; slips, 11/ to 14/; small stores, 1.5/ to 16/; medium, 17/ to .19/; good, to 27/6.