LORNEVILLE SALE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26704, 25 February 1948, Page 8

LORNEVILLE SALE

PRICES REMAIN FIRM P.A. INVERCARGILL, Feb. 24.' The entry of fat cattle at Lorneville consisted mostly of light and unfinished sorts. In the absence of competition from country butchers, the market was dull, and passings were frequent in the early stages of the sale, but improved to be on a par with last week’s rates. Quotations; Good-quality heavy-weight bullocks made from £lB 10s to £2O; light-weight, £l6 10s to £l7 10s; small, £l4 to £ls 10s; good-quality medium-weight heifers, to £l9; light-weight, £l4 10s to £l6; small, £lO 10s to £l2; good-quality medium-weight cows, £ls 10s to £l7 12s; light-weights, £ll to £l2 10s; unfinished, £8 10s to £lO. In the fat sheep section wethers provided the bulk of the entry. They were mostly light and unfinished sorts. Better quality sheep met with a keen demand, values showirfg an improvement of about 3s a head for wethers and 2s a head for ewes. Quotations; Good-quality mediumweight wethers made from 51s to 53s 6d: good-quality two-tooth wethers, 49s 6d to 525; medium quality, 46s to 48s; lightweights, 43s Gd to 455; small and unfinished, 40s to 425; good-quality maiden ewes, to 41s: butchers’ ewes, 30s to 32s 6d: freezing sorts, 27s to 295. Butchers’ lambs realised 40s to 43s Gd, lighter sorts from 35s to 38s.