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Northern Advocate, 12 February 1931, Page 7

COMMERCIAL

WESTFIELD STOCK SAT.I

BEEF VALUES FIRM

SHEEP IN STEADY DEMAND

(Special to “Northern Advocate.”) AUiOKLAND, This Day.

The New 'Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., reports on jthc weekly Westfield fat slock sales jheld yesterday as follows: ) Beef was penned in average mimi bin’s and sold at late rates. Extra •choice ox sold to 28/ per 1001 b; choice and prime ox. 2-V to 27/; ordinary and plain, 2(1/ to 24/; prime I young cow and heifer beef, 22,-' !o 26/; ordinary cow beef, 20/ to 21/; heavy prime steers, £lO .1/ to CII 10/; lighter prime steers, TO to £.lO 2/6; light. E 7 10/ to £8 15/; unfinished and small, £5 11/ to £7 5/; heavy prime young cows and heifers £(i 10/ to £7 17/(5; lighter, £5 10/ to £6 7/6; light cows £4 to £5 .">/; other cows, £2 10/ to £3 15/. Sheep.—Sheep wore yarded in large numbers. There was a steady demand, with values firm at late rates, prime wethers selling at from 10/ to 14/; unfinished wethers, 5/ to 10/3; prime ewes, 6/ to 8/0; unfinished ewes, 2/6 to 5/6; prime hoggets, 10/ to 12/; small and unfinished, 7/ to 0/0.

Lambs were penned in very large [numbers, mostly unfinished. Prime quality sold readily at late rates. Store lambs also sold at late values. 'Prime lambs, 9/ to 14/(5; store lambs, 4/(5 to 8/(5. Pigs came forward in average numbers. Competition was keener and values for all classes improved on last week's quotation. (Choppers sold from £.l ]()/_ to £2 IS/; heavy and medium I bacomys, £2 9/ to £2 17/; light baconers and heavy porkers, £2 4/ to £2 7/; medium porkers and light porkers £1 18/ to £2 2/; small and unfinished porkers, £1 10/. Store pigs sold at late quotations. Large stores, £1 2/ to £1 10/; slips, 12/ to £1; weaners, !»/ to 17/. Calves were in small numbers. There was a better demand ami : values improved on late quotations. Runners, £2 to £3 5/; heavy vealers, £2 10/ to £.‘! 1/; medium, £2 to £2 8/; light, £l 10/ to £1 18/; smaller, £1 to £1 18/; small and fresh dropped, 3/ to 14/; rough calves, 7/ to 14/. BUTTER MARKET. PRICES ADVANCED. EXPORT BUYERS ACTIVE. (Special to “Northern Advocate,") AUCKLAND, This Day. Latest cablegrams from .London report a slight advance in the market for dairy produce. Butter Is quoted at up to 118/ a cwt, with the market showing an upward tendency, compared with 115/ a week ago. Indications are that New Zealand butter is now being sold well up to arrival and that present consumption in England is equal to, if not greater j than, the supply. The Danish butter market is reported to be “excited," and around the equivalent of 152/ in Loudon. Agents for London importers have been very active in various parts of the province during the past week or so, offering 12,1 d f.o.b. for February shipment. Ouly a few thousand ■boxes have been sold, however, as most factory directorates are not prepared to change their policy in the middle of the season, and prefer to continue consigning. STORE SHEEP. HAMILTON SALE. (Special to “Northern Advocate.") HAMILTON, This Day. The Waikato Fanners’ Co-operative, Auctioneering Company reports as io,lows. — We hold our Hamilton store sheep sale yesterday, when a particularly heavy yarding of all classes of store lambs and breeding ewes came forward. The whole entry changed hands under keen competition at satisfactory prices. Tire yarding comprised a large number of breeding ewes ex Gisborne and East Coast districts, also a heavy entry of store lambs', which sold at satisfactory prices, mostly to dairy farmers. Wc quote.—Romney ewe lambs, 5/7 to 7/2; Romney .wether lambs, 5/1 to <5/4; mixed sex lambs, 5/1 to (5/2; small lambs, 2/9 to 4/9; 2-lnoth ewes, 7/9 to 9/1; 4, 7 and (>- tooth ewes, ex Gisborne, 12/4; 4-yea vold ewes, 8/5 to 10/; 5-yoar-old ewes, 8/ to 8/(5; s.m. ewes, 3/9 to 5/3.