WESTFIELD SALE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 257, 28 September 1945, Page 8

WESTFIELD SALE

(Press Assn.) AUCKLAND, Srpt. 26. At the Westfiold ■ sale extra choice exdairy sold to £2 16s per lOOib; choice and prime, £2 lis to £2 15s; ordinary exdairy, £2 6s to £3 10s; extra prime heifer, to £2 13s; choice and prime, £2 8s to £2 lis; ordinary cow beef, £2 Is to £2 7s; extra heavy prime steers, £23 to £23 17s 6d; heavy prime, £2l 15s -to £22 17s 6d; medium prime, £l9 5s to £2l 10s; light, £l6 15s to £l9; small and unfinished, £l4 to £l6 10s; extra heavy prime cow and heifer, £ls to £l7; heuvy, £l2 to £l4 15s; medium, £lO to £ll 17s 6d; light, £8 to £9 15s; small and unfinished, £5 to £7 15s. Sheep.—Extra heavy prime ■ woolly wethers made £2 13s to £2 15s; shorn, £1 18s 9d to £1 195.6 d; heavy woolly, £2.10s to £2 12a; shorn, £1 17s 9d to £1 18s 6d; medium woolly, £2 7s to £2 9s; shorn. £1 16s to £1 17s 6d; light woolly.'£2 4s to £2 .6s 9d : shorn, '£l 13s to £1 15s; plain and unfinished, woolly, £1 16s to £2 3s; shorn, £1 7s to £1 ~-12 s 6d; heavy prime ewes, £1 9s to £1 10s; medium, £1 7s to £1 8s 9d; light, £1 4s to £1 6s 9d; just killable, 18s to £1 3s; others, 10s to 17s ; shorn ewes, 18s to £1 2s. There was a keen demand for spring lambs, which so'd from £2 3s to £2 15s, these being the highest prices realised so far this season. Hoggete also sold readily, values being firm. Woolly hoggets made from £1 6s to £2 6s; shorn, £1 5s to £1 12s. Pigs.—Choppers made £5 to £7 2s 6d ; heavy; prime baconers. £5 10s to £5 16s; medium, £4 15s to. £5 8s: light, £4 5s to £4 13s; heavv porkers, £3 14s to £4 ss; medium, £3 6s to £3 13s; light, £2 16s to £3 ss; stores, £2 6s to £2 15s; slips, £2 to £2 10s: weaners, 18s to £2.