RATES AT ADDINGTON

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22046, 28 February 1935, Page 7

RATES AT ADDINGTON

STORE SHEEP FIRM BEEF" PRICES HARDEN [BY XELEGEAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION*] CHRISTCHURC.H, Wednesday ' The sale all round to-day at Addington was good only, there being a slight improvement in values for most classes of stock. Store Lambs.—A heavy entry came forward. Good rape lambs, 15s 4d to I6s sd; medium, 13s 3d to 14s 9d; wetlier lambs. 10s Id to 12b sd; ordinary wether lamba, 8s 9d to 9s lOd; cull, 5a Id to 8a 3d. Store Sheep.—Good ewes were firm at laaii week's rates. Inferior were a shade easier in the concluding stages of the sale. Extra good two-tooth three-quarter-bred ewes, 31s Id; good two-tooth threequarterbred, 25s to 27s 3d; medium two-tooth three-quarter-bred, 22s 9d to 245; good two-tooth Corriedale, 30s; good two-tooth halfbred, 28a to 30s 6d; medium two-tooth halfbred, 23s to 255; inferior two-tooth halfbred, 2J.s to 22s Gd; extra good sound-mouth halfbred, to 20s 9d; good sound-mouth halfbred, 17s Gd to 193; medium, 15s Gd to 17s; ordinary, 13s 9d to 15s 3d; inferior, lis to 13s Gd; full-mouth ewes, 7s 6d to 9s; cull ewes, 4s lOd to 6s Gd; good wethers, 17s to 19s; ordinary, 14s to 16s 3d. Fat Lambs.—Export lambs maintained the schedule of 7Jd per lb, and heavy lambs for butchers' trade made up to Bd. Show lambs made 40s 6d. Fat Sheep.—There was an entry of 4200, aa against 4500 last week, with a small proportion of prime sheep. Best ewes were up by 2s to 2s Gd a head and wethers by Is to Is Gd. Others were unchanged. Extra prime heavy wethers, to 31s Id; prime heavy, 24s Gd to 275; prime medium weights, 22s to 275; medium quality, 19s to 21s Gd; light wethers, 16s to 18s 6d; extra prime heavy ewes, 25s 7d; prime heavy, 20s to 22s 6d; prime medium weight, 16s to 19s 6d; ordinary, 12s 6d to 15s 6d; light, to 12s. Fat Cattle.—A yarding of 450 was penned, including more better quality. Good cattle improved by 10s a head; medium and inferior were unchanged. Best steer and heifer beef sold at up to 25s 6d per 1001b.; good, from 21s 6d to 245; heavy, from 18s 6d to 20s; secondary, from 14s to 16s; and rough, down to lis per 1001b. 'Extra prime heavy steers made to £ll_ 7a 6d; prime heavy, £9 10s; medium weight, £8 10s to £'9 10s; medium quality, £4 10s to £7 10s; light, £4 ss; extra prime heifers, to £9 7a 6d; prime, £5 5s to £7 10s; medium, £3 5s to £5; light, to £3. Extra prime cows, to £T 17b 6d; prime, £5 to £6 sa; ordinary, £2 15s to £4; light and aged, 35s to £2 10s. Fat Pigs.—There was a medium entry, porkers being in email supply. The demand was good, particularly for porkers, which showed an appreciation in values. Choppers made £2 -5s 6d; baconers, 50s to 58s 6d; heavy, £3 to £3 7s 6d; extra heavy, to £3 14s Gd. The average per lb was 5Vd to 61d. -Porkers made 35s to 38s 6d; heavy, 40s to 46s 6d. The average per lb was Gd to 6' 2 d. .

WELLSFORD SHEEP FAIR [feom our own correspoxdext"! WELLSFORD, Wednesday There was a large yarding of all clasps of sheep at the sTieep fair held at Wellsford on Monday by the North Auckland Farmers' Co-operative, Limited. There was a largfe number of buyers present from all parts of the Jjower North, and practically the whole yarding was sold. A particularly strons demand was shown in the competition for store lambs, which brought up to 18a Gd. The Southdown rams on behalf of Messrs. R. and G-. Coates, of Matakohc, and the Eomney rams offered D 7 Mr. Strange, of Helensville. were all sold to a good demand. A good proportion of the offering was bought by dairy farmers, a large number of whom now keep a few sheep. Heavy fat wethers sold to £1 3s 6d; fat two-tooth, 19s 7d; 116 good six-tooth, 18s lOd: mixed four and six-tooth. 16s to 17s; good conditioned large four-tooth ewes running with rams, £1 2b 6d; good mixed aged ewes, £1 2s 3d; 60 fully-mouth, £1 Is 4d; 111 mixed age ewes, £1 Is 4d; 100 four-year Romney ewes, £1 Is 8d; smaller mixed age ewes, 16s 9d to 18s 6d; aged, all sound mouth, 12s to l&s 6d; culls. 8s; woolly store lambs, 15s 6d to 18s 6d; 240 shorn mixed sex, 12s lOd; heavy shorn, 16s; lighter shorn, 10s 4d to lis 9d; culls, 7s 2d to 7a lOd: twotooth Southdown rams bred by R. and G. Coates, of Matakohe, 4}gns to sgn»; Romney rams on behalf of Mr. Strange, of Helensville, 2gns to 3gns; Border Leicester rams, 2lens; odd .rams, 16s; old and culls. 5s to Bs. PRICES OF METALS INCREASE IN COPPER ('Received February 27, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 26 Following are to-day's quotations on the London metal market, compared with those of Jebruary 25: — Feb. 26 Feb. 25 Per ton Per ton £ s, d £ s d Copper, stan., spot .. 26 14 4$ 26 4 4i Copper, stan., 3 mos. 27 \1 3 ,26 10 7$ Copper, electrolytic .. 29 10 0 29 5 0 to to 30 0 0 29 15 0 Copper, elec., wire bars 30 0 0 29 15 0 Lead, soft, spot .. 10 6 3 10 5 0 Lead, soft, forward .. 10 6 3 10 7 6 Spelter, spot .. 11 13 9 11 11 3 Spelter, forward .. 11 16 3 11 13 9 Tin, stan., spot .. 214 17 6 220 10 0 Tin, stan., 3 mos. .. 212 12 6 216 17 6

BRITISH MOTOR TRADE "NEVER MORE FLOURISHING" The British motor industry has never been in a more flourishing condition, according to Lord Nufßeld, the British motor magnate who controls the Morris organisations, when interviewed in Fremantle at the beginning of hiss tour of Australia and New Zealand. He said his organisation was turning out 2500 cars a week, and by Easter would be producing 3000, or better than one a minute. The export business in the last 12 months had increased 100 per cent, and would similarly increase next year. Britain was back to tht 1914 level, and her position as the world's commercial leader was undoubted. There were 2,000,000 unemployed, but about 1,000,000 were unemployed before the war. The recovery was largely due to the National Government, which, in spite of statements t& the contrary, fully held the confidence of the people. He considered that the next British Government would be a national one. Lord Nuffield said he could see no solution of the difficulty in shorter hours of labour, for their introduction would perpetuate the vicious circle. If hours were shortened, Britain could not compete with other countries without getting more machines, and thus displacing more men.

Speaking of competition with America, he said that America had got into the market while England was at war, and when war ceased Britain was left with nothing. It took years' to reorganise, but Britain had done it, and had won her way from the bottom to the leadership, and she would continue to regain more ground.