LIVE STOCK MARKET

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17108, 14 November 1929, Page 12

LIVE STOCK MARKET

SALES AT WESTFIELD KEEN DEMAND FOR SHEEP (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, lust night. At Westfield hoof wits penned in average numbers. Extra heavy primo oxen were inclined to bo easier in values, oilier.prime ox and cow and heifer beef being the same as last week. Extra choice ox sold to £2 2s per 1001 b., choice and prime ox £1 19s to £2 Is, ordinary and plain £1 16s to £1 IBs, prime young cow and heifer beef £1 17s to £2, ordinary cow, beef £1 14s to £1 16s 6d, extra, heavy prime steers £ls to £l6, heavy prime £l3 15s to £l4 ,17s 6d, lighter prime £l2 5s to £l2 12s 6d, light prime £ll to £l2 2s 6d, unfinished and small £9 10s to £lO 15s, extra heavy prime young cows and heifers £l2 to £l3 ss* heavy prime £lO 10s to £ll 15s, lighter £9 to' £lO 7s, light cows £7 15s to £8 15s, other cows £5 10s, to £6 12s 6d. j , ■Sheep were yarded in average num-j hers. There was a keen, demand and j values improved Is to 2s a head. Heavy j prime wethers made £1 9s 6d to £l l 10s 6d, medium prime £1 8s 6d to £ll 9s 3d, light prime £1 7s to £1 8s 3d, j small and unfinished £1 5s to £1 6s j 9d, heavy prime ewes £1 Is 6d to £1 3s j 6d, medium prime 18s 9d to £1 Is, ‘ light prime 17s to 18s 6d. j Lambs were penned in less than aver-1 age numbers. There was a keen de- j maud, and values were decidedly bet-1 ter. Prime lambs sold at £1 2s 6d to £1 8s 9d.

Pigs were penned in large numbers. Value were on a part with last week’s quotations. Choppers sold at £2 to £3 6d, heavy and medium baconers £3 10s to £4 4s, light baconers and heavy porkers £2 18s to £3 Bs, medium and light porkers £2 6s, to £3 16s, small and unfinished. £1 16s to £2 4s.

. Store pigs in small numbers sold at values very firm at late quotations. Large stores made £1 10s to £2, slips £1 4s to £1 9s, weaners 12s to £1 4s.

Calves were penned in large numbers. Values were easier on last week’s quotations. Runners made £6 lc\£9 7s 6d, heavy venters £5 5s to £7 7s 6d, modiuin £4 to £5, light £3 to £3 18s, smaller £2 5s to £2 18s, small and fresh dropped 7s to £2 3s rough calves £1 to £1 18s.