Beef In Keen Demand At Westfield

Northern Advocate, 11 August 1938, Page 4

Beef In Keen Demand At Westfield

[Special to "Northern Advocate. ,r i AUCKLAND, This Day. Yardings of ox beef were much smaller at the Westfield stock sale yesterday, Beef sold under keen competition, rates in the cow and heifer sections showing a decided improvement on recent sales. There was an average yarding of sheep, which attracted a steady demand, and values showed little variation from those of last week. Wethers were traded to 35/6, compared with 37/6 last week.

The top prices for runners and vealers, £7/17/, and £6/18/ respectively, marked an advance on last week’s levels.

The feature of the pig sale was the higher scale of bidding for porkers, the top prices in this section showing a rise from £3/11/ to £4/4/. Baconers and porkers made firm values, and were quoted without change at 7Jd and 8d per lb. respectively. A draft of cattle yarded by Judd Brothers, of Maungaturoto, was sqld to £l3/17/6. A line of cows and heifers from Mrs M. J, Cullen, of Maungaturoto, made to £7/10/. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., reports as follows: —

Sheep.—Heavy prime wethers, £1 14/6 to £l/15/6; medium prime wethers, £l/12/ to £l/14/3; light prime wethers, £l/8/ to £l/11/6; small and unfinished wethers, £l/3/ to £l/7/6; heavy prime ewes, £l/4/6 to £l/6/9; medium prime ewes, £l/2/6 to £ 1/4/; light prime ewes, 17/ to £l/2/; just killable ewes, 11/ to 16/6; inferiorily fatted ewes, 4/6 to 10/-, Lambs. —Extra heavy prime, £l/6/ to £l/8/; heavy prime, £l/3/3 to £l/5/6; medium prime, £1 to £l/3/; light prime, 17/- to 19/6; unfinished best, 13/ to 16/-; others, 9/ to 12/6. Pigs. Choppers, £2 to £3/18/-; heavy and medium baconers, £4/6/to £4/13/; light baconers and heavy porkers, £3/12/ to £4/4/; medium porkers and light porkers, £3 to £3/10/; small, £2/8/ to £2/18/; unfinished, £2 to £2/6/; large stores, £l/10/ to £l/18/; slips, £l/5/ to £l/9/; weaners, 15/ to £l/4/. ' Calves. —Runners, £4 to £7/10/; heavy vealers, £5/5/- to £6/18/; medium, £4/4/ to £5; light, £3/10/ to £4; smaller, £3 to £3/8/; small, £2 to £2/18/; rough calves, 15/ to £l/15/; fresh-dropped to 3-weeks-old calves, 5/ to £l/15/-.

The New Zealand Loan and Mer- ( cantilo Agency Co. report;— j Extra choice ox sold to 38/ per j 1001 b; choice and prime ox, 35/ to 37/; j ordinary and plain, 30/ to 34/; prime j young cow and heifer beef, 32/ to 37/; ordinary cow beef, 25/ to 30/. | Extra heavy prime steers ranged in . price from £ls 5/ to £l6; heavy | prime steers, £l4 to £ls 2/6; lightei’, | £l2 10/ to £l3 17/6; light, £lO 10/ j to £l2 5/; small and unfinished, £8 j to £lO 5/. Extra heavy prime young' cows and heifers, £ll 10/ to £l2 17/6; | heavy prime cows and heifers, £9 toj £ll 5/; lighter, £7 2/6 to £8 15/; j light, £6 to £7; other killable cows, £4 to £5 15/. Calves, runners, £4 to £7 10/; heavy vealers, £5 5/ to £6 18/; medium, £4 4/ to £5; light, £3 10/ to £4; smaller, £3 to £3B/; small, £2 to £2 18/; rough calves, 15/ to £1 15/; up to three-year-olds, 5/ to £1 15/.