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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17174, 29 November 1917, Page 4

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ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET, (Pjb United Pbess Association.)

,:': CHRISTCHIIRCH, November 28, 'At stock market there .Were good entries. .* Store Sheep.—The yarding was of 'moderate'dimensions, the bulk being composed of wethers. There was a general dejtaand. Good two and four-tooth ewes to

BBs 2d; woolly ewes and lamb 3, 20s 9d (all counted); two-tooth rethers, 24s 7d to 255; two and four-tooth yothers, 24s 2d to 29s 7d;-woolly, to 29s 9d; Jour and .six-tooth wethers, 26s to 32s 6d; ' tound-motithed woolly merino wethers, 20s ' id to 25s lOd. £ The yarding of fat lambs was much : smaller, and & very good sale eventuated, prices hardening Is to Is 6d over late rates. 1 Extra prime, to 31s Id; prime, 26s 6d to /295; lighter, 21s 6d to 25s 9d. ; There was rather a larger yarding of fat • sheep, thejdemand being poor, with an ap- " proximate dip pf Is 63. to 2s- per head. Woolly wethers, 40s to 435; extra prime, * to 37b 3d; prime, 31s to 35s 6d; lighter, 28s 4d to 29s Id; extra prime ewes, 37s to 39s 6d; prime, 29s lOd to 35s 3d; lighter, " 24s to '28b 4d.

There was a large entry of fat cattle, , and the demand for steer and heifer beef " was good. For other classes the market was Blacker. Extra prime steers, to £24 17s 6d; » prime, £18 to £21; ordinary, to £18; extra prime heifers, to £18; prime, £13 to £17; ■ ordinary,- £10 to £32 10s; extra prime cows, 'to £19 10s; prime, £13 to £16; ordinary, £10 to £12 10s. There was a fair demand for vealers, and best sorts made £6 10s to . £7 7s 6d; smaller, £2 to £6. ~ There was a large entry of store cattle of very mixed quality, and the demand was distinctly easier, passings being numerous. Yearling heifers, to £6; yearling steers, £7 11s'; two-year-old steers, £9 15s; three and four-year-old steers, £14 19s; dry cows, £8 10s to £12. A. good , inquiry was ex- ' perienced for gogd quality dairy cows, which made np to £15. Medium sorts, £10 to I £14; and old cows from £8. \

Pige.—Choppers, £5 to £6; extra heavy, baoonere, £5 16s; heavy baconers, £4 10s to £5; lighter baooners, £2 15s tod £4 ss— price per lb 7£d to 7gd; heavy porkers, £2 17s to £3 ss; lighter porkers, ,£Z 10s to £2 15s—price per lb, 9d to 9id. (NORTH ISLAND LAMBING. ESTIMATE OF 6,539,033. The Agricultural Department has decided, commencing with tho current season, to compile and publish, its estimates ae early as possible. As the North Island lambing is on tho average about a month earlier than that of the South Island, tho information for the respective islands will be published separately in two successive months' issues of the Department's Journal. The particulars for the North Island are now ready, and are given in the following table, together with corresponding figures for the two previous years:— i IP i||-i ill -ifff H !zi«s Waft's W«5 «\e33 1917 _. 7,475,418 87} 6,539,033 * 1916 _. 7,230,i50 85$ 6,203,728 6^12,573 1915 ... 6,643,567 6,763,329 5,77W43 •-Not yet ooUcoted. PROPERTY SALES. Messrs Siovwright, Haggitt and 00. have recently sold the following properties: — Mr Newton Eagan's farm of 453 acres freenokT"and 40 acres leasehold, at Otokia, to Mr Samson Buxton (la'to of Southland); Mr Cruickshank's freehold farm of 56 acres, at Milton, to Mr Leslie Jane, of Heriot; Mr J. O. Thomson's two freehold eections at St. CUair, to Mr W. J. Brown, of Dunedin; Mr C. Spratt'e freehold property at Warrington, to Captain H. V. Hankey, of Dunedin; Mrs Blathwayt's renewable lease of 491 acres at Beaumont, together with all stock and implements, to Mr Cyril Edgar, of Dunedin (returned soldier); Mr W. A. White's farm of 50 acres at Merton, together with stock and implements to Mr Henry Williams, of Gisborne; Mr W. J. Brown's house at Kew to Mr J. O. Thomson, of Dunedin.