ADDINGTON SALE
(Press Assn.) CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 7 To-day's Addington market showed little variation in values from the good rates ruling recently. Store sheep: Wethers sold well at from 15s 9d to 24s 9d. The hogget entry was mostly confined to ewes, the best selling up to 365. Another pen mado 35s 6d, but prices generally wore down by Is 6d a head. Ewes and lambs made up to 17s 6d, all counted, with prices ranging mostly round 13s to 15s. Fat sheep: Southern ewes mado from 46s to 51s Id., the highest price of the season for owes; good ewes, 34s to 40s; light, down to 265. Shorn ewes, 30s lOd; heavy wothers, up to 50s; good, 42s to 475; light, to 375; shorn wethers, to 40s.
Fat cattle.—Seven heavyweight steers from the West Coast averaged £27 Is, the top pen making £27 12s 6d. Another pen of 15 steers from Banks Peninsula averaged £2l 12s, tops making £25 12s 6d. Heifers ranged about £l6, tops making to £l7 17s 6d. Best qua'ltybeef ranged from 48s to 51s 1001 b; special medium-weights, to 52s 6d; good and heavy, from 45s to 48s; medium, 40s to 435; secondary, down ro 355. Pips.—Porkers made from 57s 6d to £4 9s 6d, average price per lb, 9£d to Hid; baconers, from £4 16s 6d to £6 9s 6d, average 8d to 9id
WESTFIELD RATES
(Press Assn.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 7. Two extra heavy show bullocks realised £23 and £22 10s; extra choice ox £2 2s per 1001 b; choice and prime, £1 19s to £2 Is; secondary and plain, £1 15s to £1 17s; extra prime young cow and heifor, £1 14s to £1 18s; choice and prime, £1 10s to £1 12s; ordinary cowbeef, £1 6s to £1 8s; extra heavy prime stoors, £lB to £lB 17s 6d; heavy, £l6 to £l7; lighter, £l4 10s to £ls 10s; light, £l2 10s to £l3 10s; small and unfinished £lO to £l2; extra heavy prime young cows and heifers, £ll to £l4 2s 6d; heavy, £9 to £10; lighter, £7 10s to £8 10s; light, £5 10s to £6 10s. Sheep —Extra heavy prime wethers, woolly, £2 8s to £2 10s 6d; shorn, £1 15s to £1 16s; heavy woolly, £2 5s 6d to £2 7s; shorn, £1 13s to £1 14s; medium woolly, £2 2s to £2 4s; shorn, £1 lis to £1 12s; light woolly, £1 18s to £2; shorn, £1 8s 6d to £1 10s 6d; plain and unfinished woolly, £1 10s to £1 16s 6cl; shorn, £1 Is to £1 4s 6d; extra heavy prime young and maiden ewes, woolly £1 8s to £1 10s; shorn 18s to £1 2s'6d; heavv woolly, £1 5s od to £1 7s; shorn, 16s to 17s; lighter, woo.ly, £1 3s to £1 4s; shorn, 13s to 15s; plain and aged, woolly, 18s to £1; others, woolly, 10s to 16s; extra heavy prime lambs. £2 to £2 2s 6d; heavy, £1 17s to £1 18s 6d; medium, £1 15s od to £1 16s 6d; lighter, £1 13s 6d to £1 15s. Pigs—Choppers, £1 to £3 2s; heavy baconers, £4 9s to £4 19s; medium £4 Is to £4 4s; light, £3 14s to £3 19s; heavy porkers £3 14s to £4; medium, £3 6s to £3 10s; light, £2 17s to £3.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 265, 8 October 1942, Page 6
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