SHEEP FOR THE EAST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22845, 28 September 1937, Page 5

SHEEP FOR THE EAST

AUSTRALIAN SHIPMENTS CORRIEDALES- IN DEMAND 41 INDUSTRY NOT AFFECTED" [from our own con respondent! SYDNEY, Sept. 24 Heavy shipments of Australian sheep to Japan have been made since June. It is stated that the sheep are being bought to stock small Japanese farms. The export of Merino sheep to any country is banned, but the prohibition does not apply to other breeds. During July and August 4791 Corriedales left Sydney. On September 29, a total of 800 more will leave by the Canberra Marti.

"The local Government authorities, particularly in Eastern Japan, are assisting the farmers to go in for sheepraising," said the president of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce in Sydney, Mr. Yamashita. "They cannot take more than two or three sheep each, but in the past two years even this amount has proved very beneficial. Eastern Japan has suffered a very bad season. Crops have failed, and the authorities are persuading the farmers to go in for sheep. In the last few years Japan has been taking from 7000 to 10,000 Corriedales from Australia a year." The new Japanese development would not affect the Australian industry, said 31 r. J, B. Cramsie, well-known pastoralist and former president of the Meat Board. "Japan's sheep can be numbered in thousands, whereas the wool they have to import from Australia represents the produce of something like 15,000,000 sheep," he said. During the year ended June, 1937, a total of 6855 sheep left Sydney for Japan. They were valued by the Customs at £21,553. The shipments made since then have been valued at £15,888. Mr. Y. Kusano, Sydney representative of Kanematsu, Limited, returned from New Zealand this week after arranging for the shipment of 1000 Corriedale sheep to Japan from New Zealand. The shipment is being carried by the Sydney Maru.

COUNTRY STOCK SALES TE AWAMUTU RATES FIRM DAIRY CATTLE SOUGHT The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports as follows on its Te Awamutu stock sale:—Fat and store cattle: The beef entry was a capacity one, with plenty of choice quality, and sold excellently. Ox beef was well represented and brought prices fully to the best of current quotations. Heavy fat bullocks made £ls 12s lid to £10; medium Shorthorn bullocks, £l4 10s to £l3 10s; light, £ll 10s to £l2 >los; prime Shorthorn heifers, £l3 to £ls; heavy fat cows, £l2 to £l3; medium Shorthorn cows and heifers, £lO 15s to £ll 15s; lighter, £S to £10; heavy Jersey cows, £7 15s to £0; medium, £6 to £7; unfinished conditioned cows, £4 5s to £5 15sj store cows, £3 10s to £4 2s Gd; boners, to £3 7s Gd; yearling Friesian steers, £5 Is; good I small Polled Angus steers, £1; extra choice yearling Jersey heifers, £5 7s Gd to £G Ss; good class yearling heifers, £■% 15s to £5 7s; medium, £1 (is to £1 15s; inferior, £3 10s to £1 ss. Dairies: Fairly heavy numbers of both cows and heifers, most of which were in milk, came forward. There was a ready sale and more could easily have been absorbed. There was a large attendance and everything was briskly sought, with young cows commanding the keenest attention. Best dairy heifers made £ll 10s to £l3; medium, £ll 5s to £lO 10s; poorer, to £8 15s; choice young dairy cows, £ll to £l2 10s; others, £» 15s to £lO 10s; most of the entry realised from £» to £ll 10s. Sheep: Fewer than at the previous sale were entered. Store hoggets and a few fat ewes and fat hoggets accounted for most. The sale was a good one. Both store and fat sheep values ranged about late advanced quotations and all vendors sold. Medium shorn fat ewes made 22s to 255; medium woolly fat ewes, 2Gs to 30s Gd; fat hoggets, extra prime, a few to 38s; average hoggets, 32s to 35s Gd; medium ewe store hoggets, to 335; store wether hoggets, 25s to 'Jss. i'igs: Prices differed little from Frankton quotations for baroners and porkers, of which a good entry was handled. In the store and weaner department there was a large bench of buyers and a free sale resulted with little variation from prevailing price levels. Any alteration, which would be fractional only, would be to improve. Medium baconers made £3 15s to £4; light, £3 Is to £3 12s; heavy porkers, £2 18s to £3 3s; medium, £•_' 10s io £2 IGs; light, to £2 (Is; best store pigs, £1 IGs to £2 2s; good. £1 lis to £1 15s; smaller, £1 Ss to £1 10s; hest weaners, 22s to 2Gs; average, to 21s; small, to His.

JERSEY BULL SALE THAMES VALLEY BREEDERS [UV TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] • PAEROA, Monday The nnniial bull salo of the Thames Valley Jersey Breeders' Club was held at (he raero« saleyards on Friday by the New Zealand Loan and .Mercantile Agency Company, Limited. There was not a large attendance, and many entries were passed in. The top price of M'-'gns was brought by Tizard Bros.' Kupata Silver Prince, which was sold to Tliorpo Bros., of Paeroa. The best prices realised were:—Mr. B. E. Veale's Tiroliia Terry. logns, to Mr. G. Pullar; Tizard Bros.' Pukeroa Cashbox, 'JOVisrns, to Mr. A. Vowles, of Xcthcrton; Gray and Grav's Knpata Silvermine, IS'/igns, to Mr. L. C. Sanderson, of Awaiti; Mrs. R. Irvine's Illanearras Rajah, lSVitrns, to Mr. C. R. LMurdock, of Hikutaia; Mr. W. H. Cheale s Chinthurst Prince, llgns, to Mr. N. A. Miller, of Paeroa; Mr. B. E. Veale's Tirohia Pkv Pilot, 12'/ S gns, to Mr. A. B. Robson. of Hamilton; Mr. B. E. Vcalo's Tirohia Lancer, 1 igns, to Mr. Vernon Stone, of To Aroha West; Tizard Bros.' Kupata Climber. lSgns, to Mr. Vernon Stone; H. H. Stutton and Son's 'J'olgarth Golden Marvel, 'iOgns, to Mr. A. Tomlinson, of Paeroa; Mr. h. Jamieson's Goodlands Nex, llgns, to Mr. L<\ Lewis, of Paeroa; Mr. B. E. Ycales Tirohia Sovereign. 'J-tVaKns, to Mr. C. LR. Mr.rdock, of llikut.ua; Mr. R. Irvines Illanearras Conqueror, logns, to estate of Mr J. HandlV; Tizard Bros.' Kupata Silver' Prince. 3-Ji;ns, to Thorpe Bros. of Paeroa* Mr. E. Janucson s Goodlands 1 llot, t->,r ns to Mr. G. W. Morten, of Waharoa; Mr' iv H. C'healc's Lcafield Good Lack, l-i'/igns, to Mr. P. R. Henry, of lurua.

TANGOWAHINE PIG SALE [from our own correspondent] WHAXGARKI. Monday There was a croud bench of buyers at the for nichtlv pig sale held at Tangowahinc bv Walter Wakelin. The entry was large and the bidding keen, and a f?°od clearance whs effected. Bnconers brought from x.t to X I; heavy porkers, to i'-i U'S , ' Xi los to X'J ss; large stores, XL lls to X'J Is; small, to XL <s; slips, to £1 b., wenners, ins to 25b s choppers. £1 los to x:3; breeding sows, to X.5 i_s <>u.

LONDON'S DRUG TRADE BUYING METHODS CHANGE, London is no longer the world's clearing-house for drugs. Lvidcncc of this was seen recently at the public auction of drugs held in Mincing Lane; less than 1 per cent of the goods catalogued bv eight brokers was sold under the hammer, says the Manchester Guardian Commercial. The sale was over in about 50 minutes, and most of the selling brokers left the rostrum one after the other without registering a single, sale. Those public drug auctions 'are now held every two months, and are usually over well within the hour. Before the war they were held fortnightly, and sometimes lasted —with no break for lunch —five, or .six hours. The auctions take less than six hours a year, against more than one hundred hours in the old days. Wha_t is the reason for the change? Tt is chiefly that the producing countries are dealing direct with consuming countries without the intervention of London.

It is sometimes asked whether the public drug auctions are worth while, but in spite of the lack of results there is a strong body of opinion in favour of keeping up the old c.ustom, if only to indicate where supplies are located and the approximate prices buyers may expect to pay.