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Northern Advocate, 5 December 1935, Page 9

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WESTFIELD STOCK SALE YESTERDAY'S PRICES [Special to “Northern Advocate AUCKLAND, Wednesday. Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd., reports that at Westfield today fat cattle were yarded to the number of 404 head, against 270 head last week, comprising 115 steers and 289 cows and heifers. Our yard of ox beef was larger than last week. The quality generally was well up to the usual standard. Hidding was brisk for light cattle, while heavy and plain sorts were inclined to, ease slightly. Our heavy yarding of cows and heifers included many lines of inferior cattle, which eased considerably, but choice quality showed little or no alteration on recent sales. Extra choice ox sold to 34/ per lOOlbs; choice and prime, 30/ to 32/; secondary and plain, 27V to 29/; prime young cow and heifer beef, 30/ to 33/; ordinary, 20/ to 26/; extra fine steers ranged in price from £l3 5/ to £l3 12/6; heavy, £l2 to £l3; lighter, £ll to £ll 15/; light, £9 5/ to £lO 10/; small and unfinished, £6 15/ to £8 10/.

z Calves.—Fat and young calves were in full supply. The demand for all prime sorts was firm, but slackened slightly for finished and rough calves. Runners made £2 10/ to £7 10/; heavy vealers, £3 12/ to £4 2/6; medium, £2 14/ to £3; light, £2 6/ to £2 10/; small, £1 13/ to £2 2/; unfinished and bucketfed, 14/ to £1 5/; bobby calves, 4/ to 8/. Sheep.-—Altogether 1007 sheep were yarded. Competition for wethers and hoggets was keen at late rates, while ewes eased by about 1/6 per head on last week’s sale. Extra prime heavy wethers, £1 6/ to £1 8/9; medium to heavy prime wethers, £1 3/6 to £1 4/3; light to medium prime wethers, £ 1 2/ to £ 1 37; unfinished wethers, 17/9 to £1 1/; extra heavy prime young ewes, 19/ to £1; heavy prime ewes, 16/6 to 17/3; other killable ewes, 15/ to 16/; other ewes, 9/ to 13/6. Lambs.—Lambs were penned to the number of 241. Bidding was free and prices showed a slight advance on last week. Lighter' prime lambs,- £l2/ to £1 3/6; light prime lambs, £1 to £1 1/6; smaller and plain lambs, 18/ to 19/6. -

Pigs.—We had an extra large offering of large pigs. The inquiry for baconers was again weak. Our quotations show ho improvement, and prices ruled from firm to slightly better. Choppers made £1 5/ to £3; heavy prime baconers, £2 16/ to £3 2/; medium, £2 11/ to £3 14/; light, £2 8/ to £2 10/; heavy porkers, £2 2/ to £2 5/; medium, £1 18/ to £2 1; light, £1 14/ to £1 17/; small and unfinished, £1 7/ to £1 12/; good stores realised late rates, while values for slips and weaners were lower. Best stores, £1 6/ to £1 10/; smaller, £1 to, £l3/; slips, 13/“to 17/; wean-

ers, 6/ to 11/; baconers realised an average of 5d per lb and porkers sold s£d to 5Jd per lb (A total of 780 pigs was sold). ADDINGTON MARKET DROP IN VALUES, [Per Press Association. —CovyrightJ CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. An excess of entries in the cattle and fat sheep sections at today’s Addington market caused a drop in values. Store Sheep.—Ejves and lambs met with a better sale at about 1/ a head. Dry sheep were 1/ a head cheaper. Best ewes and lamhs sold at 18/ to 20/, all counted, and adult wethers at 20/ to 22/6. Fat Lambs. —A heavier entry than butchers required caused a slight easing in the fat lamb section, values being from 7-id to 7§d per lb. The freezing works opened on Tuesday. Fat Sheep: A heavy penning of good wethers and ewes were down by 1/6 a head, and light-ewes by 2/ to 2/6. Exporters would not operate at the prices ruling. Best wethers sold at 24/" to 28/ and freezing ewes at 14/6 to 18/. Fat Cattle: There were 445 penned, which created an over-supply in the hot weather which has now set in. There was an easing of 20/ a head for all classes, except mediupiweight fine steers. Best beef made from 28/ to 30/ per 1001 b; prime lightweight, a shade more; prime heavy beef, 25/ to 27/; medium quality, to 25/6; good heifers, to 27/6; good cows, to 25/6; and inferior down to 18/ per 1001 b. Extra heavy prime steers sold to £l6 2/6; prime heavy, £lO 5/ to £l3; prime mediumweight, £9 10/ to £lO 15/; ordinary, £7 15/ to £9 5/; extra prime heifers, £9 15/; prime, £6 10/ to £8 5/; ordinary, £5 5/ to £6 5/; extra prime cows, to £9 10/; prime, £6 5/ to £7 15/; ordinary, £5 to £6.

Fat Pigs.—Baconers were firm and there was a slight improvement for porkers. Export buyers were in the market, and paid full values for anything that fell to them. Choppers made 30/ to £4 18/6; baconers, 45/6 to 52/6; heavy,- 55/6 to 58/6; extra heavy, £3 8/6. The average value per lb was 4£d to sd. Porkers made 30/ to 34/6; heavy, 36/ to 39/6; extra heavy, to £2 3/6. The average price per lb was 53 d to 6d. WELLSFORD AUCTION Messrs Alfred JoucKtana and. Sons, Ltd., report that at Wellsford on Tuesday there was a medium yarding of cattle, store sheep and young pigs. Practically the whole yarding changed hands at current values and there was a good attendance of buyers. Boner cows and bulls were in good demand by exporting companies at schedule, price, while any suitable cows were bought by graziers for fattening. ! Fat and killable cows were in demand by country butchers, realising up to £5 5/. Any Shorthorn dairy cattle were bought by graziers for breeding purposes. The large offering of young pigs met with good competition, the best demand being for good slips and stores. Values were; . Springing Jersey heifers, £1 15/ to £2 15/; Shorthorn cows, in calf to Shorthorn bulls/£2 5/ to £2 10/; mixed cows, in calf to Shorthorn bulls, £2 5/; Jersey cows, close to profit, £3

2/6; Shorthorn bulls, for breeding, £2 17/6; boner bulls, small Jersey, £1 7/6 to £1 13/; larger, £2 19/ to £3 3/; heavy boner cows, £L 15/ to £2 5/; lighter, 25/ to 30/; cull cows', 14/ to 20/; fat Shorthorn cows, £5 to £5 5/; fat Jersey cows, £3 to £3 5/; killable cows, £3 3/ to £3 15/; heavy store cows, £2 to £2 10/; mixed store cows, £1 4/ to £1 157; three-year Shorthorn steers, £3 5/; Jersey heifers, been running with Jersey bulls, £1 11/ to £1 18/; 84 six-tooth shorn wethers, 18/9; 181 4-tooth wethers, £1; empty 4-tooth wethers, 16/; 28 ewes, with 29 lambs, 14/6 a head. Big porkers, 32/; good slips, 19/; smaller,, 16/; small stores, 207; good weaners, 14/; small, 12/; poor, 8/; aged gelding,\ all farm work, £7 15/; useful farm niare, £4 10/. CANTERBURY LAMB [Per Press Association.—Copyright.] ASHBURTON, This Day. Considerable discussion has been entered into as to whether prices at London indicate that Canterbury lamb' has deteriorated or that of

1 other provinces improved. With a . view to dispelling the idea of deteri- ; oration, Mid-Canterbury producers ! are making a special effort in connection with the board’s export lamb comi petition. Entries totalled 152, com- ; pared with 77 last year and 70 in 1933. JOTTINGS L ■ “ ' ; At the Brisbane wool sale today ’ there was continued keen competition ; and the market ruled generally firm j at opening rates. Top prices were, ; greasy, 22d; scoured, 30£d. - ; The National Bank of New Zealand, ’ Ltd., has received cabled advice from its London office that the board of directors has declared an interim dividend at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, free of tax, for the half-year ended September 30, payable on JanuI ary 4. Bulolo Gold shares sold*in London i yesterday at £6 9/o|, and New Guinea t at 4/ll£. r The latest weekly British Exchequer E returns show that the total ordinary

revenue, including selfrbalancing items, amounts to £392,008,917, compared with £374,428,856 at the corresponding date last year. The total ordinary expenditure exclusive of selfbalancing items, is £470,073,785 against £471,023,026 at the corresponding date in 1934. (8.0. W.) Fine, gold was quoted in London yesterday at £7 1/1 an ounce, compared with £7 1/ the day before. Silver was quoted at 29|d per ounce spot and 28|d forward same as Monday. The quotation for silver at per fine Ounce is 31 9-16 d, same as Monday. British War Loan, 3| per cent., sold yesterday- at £lO6 2/6, compared with £lO5 7/6 on November 29. YOUR SYSTEM NEEDS lODINE lodine in a natural and physiological form may be supplied to the systerp by adding Gregg’s Seameal to food during cooking. Seameal is a food —not a drug—and has scientific medical backing for supplying iodine deficiency. Obtainable leading stores, or write to the manufacturers, W. Gregg and Co„ Ltd., Dunedin. G 5