Unprecedented Demand In Taranaki Stock Sales

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18924, 28 January 1936, Page 10

Unprecedented Demand In Taranaki Stock Sales

AN unprecedented demand l"'or both sheep and eat tie is reported from 'farannki, as a result of an exceptional summer growth oli grass, coinbiiied with an improved state of the markets.

A very live interesl [>revails in the lamb trade and slock transactions are largely con lined To this section. Large numbers of lambs are changing hand? at 2s to lis per head ill advance of last year's prices. Good rape lambs have'sold from 10s to £l 0s (id, forward lambs are in particularly .strong demand and at the last 1-1 a worn salo tliev made 22s to Si's Id.

By private treaty, the X.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company reported that they disposed of the following lines: MOO good w.f. woolly stmc iambs at 10s, ;,!») .shorn w.f store wether lambs to Jo's. 400 shorn W.f. store wether lambs at Lis (id, 150 shorn W.f. store wether lambs at l(ss .'id, 400 W.f. mixed sex. lambs at ISs 0d and Sl)() small w.f. mixed sex lambs at 15s.

Higher wool values are having a tendency to firm up the prices of all classes of breeding ewes and although it is early, the firm effected sales in the paddock, as follows: 400 four-year ewes at, 24s (id. 200 fourvear ewes at 2." is. MOO four-year ewes at 2.1 s and 220 mixed aged ewes at 2Ss. It is fully anticipated that there will be a good demand for In-ceding ewes of all ages, at the sheep fairs commencing in the last week of this month.

Store cattle realisations are still at a. premium and cattle of this class are readily absorbed at the weekly yard sales. The competition from graziers is much in evidence in the store pons, as the abnormal growth of grass has proved a big problem for keeping the pastures in good order for (he sheep. Prices for the week aro on a par with previous sales.

Fat ewes are being absorbed by the works at 12s (id. and wethers at 225, although the butchers arc paying 14s to lis (id for ewes and up to 24s for wethers. In the paddock, trucks of vat ewes sold at J4s and Lis (id and a truck of fat wethers at 2-ls. Prices for fat cattle remain about the same as previously and in fhe yards fat .Jersey cows realise from £4 .10s to £5.

Polled Angus and Hereford cattle I ave been conspicuous by their absence and, as is usual at this lime of the .vear, butchers largely confine themselves to the odd fat Jersey cows that arc available privately or come forward to the weekly sales. The ■lollll lamb's yarded at: the annual lamb fair were all disposed of under the hammer at keenly competitive prices. A large bench of buyers attended and most of the disfricls in Tarauaki were represented at the sale. Two lines of b.f. lambs, Oil? all told, realised 17s .10d to ISs; food w.f. store wether lambs :mado iris Jld io Ids Kid; w.f store wether lambs lis Id lo lis 2d; v<'iy small iu.s. lambs 12s '.ld and eull\ sorts 103 Id lo lls -Id. AI Ihe Ila worn sale, some 4000 odd lambs wore penned and one of the besl sales held for the past few years was experienced. Buyers were preI'.onl from North Tarauaki right down in the other side of Wuverley. Competition was keen throughout and the majority of pens were sold under tk'J hammer. The one or two pens that were passed at auction were sold after the sale, so that a complete clearance was effected. Woolly w.f. ewe lambs made 225; shorn w.f. ewe

iambs 22s Id; good woolly b.f. lambs His; small woolly b.f. lambs 13s 7d to

t."s; shorn w.i'. wether lambs .17s; coolly w.f, wether lambs 14s 9d to I."is; good store w.f. wether lambs ISs; cully suits 12s 7d and fat woolly wethers 2.'is lid. There was also a

good yarding of pigs and cattle and these sold on a par with previous stiles.