Lower Values For Beef At Westfield
[Special to “Northern Advocate”] - AUCKLAND, This Day. There was an average yarding of ox beef at the Westfield fat stock sale today. As butchers were in small attendance the demand was not keen. Values were lower, the top price being £l4/15/-. Cows were also yarded in average numbers and the demand was poor and values lower. Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons, Dalgety and Co., and the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency reports: Extra choice ox to 39/- per lOClbs; choice and prime, 36/- to 38/-; ordinary and plain, 32/- to 34/-; crime young cows and heifer beef, 30/- to 34/-; ordinary beef, 22/- to 24/-; extra heavy prime steers, £l3/10/- to £l4/15/-; heavy prime steers, £l2/15/- to £l3/o/-; lighter, £l2 to £l2/10/-; light, £lO/10/- to £ll/10/-;- small and unfinished. £8 to £9/10/-; extra heavy prime young cows and heifers, £9 to £9/10/-; heavy, £7/10/to £B/10/-; lighter, £6/10/- to £7; ocher killable cows, £4 to £5/10/-.
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Northern Advocate, 18 February 1942, Page 4
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