LATE COMMERCIAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18992, 17 April 1936, Page 6

LATE COMMERCIAL

STOCK AT MATAWHERO SHEEP MARKET ACTIVE At the weekly stock sale conducted by the Poverty Bay Stockbrokers' Association at the Malawhero saleyards to-day tfiere was an active demand for sheep, specially stores, for which there was a good sale. There was a good entry ol stock and the sale attracted a large attendance. BEEF An entry of 20 head of fat cattle, all ordinary dairy sorts, was yarded, but attracted little attention. A Shorthorncross cow made £4 15s, and a Jersey co.v £3 8s; other prices ranged from £2 to hi 15s. Prices : Cows.-One jersey, £2 6s; i ditto, £2 5s ; 1 good black, £3 8s ; 1 Jersey, £2 15s: 1 good Shorthorn Jersey, &t tSs; i Jersey,-£2 14s: 1 Jersey. *,2 l'is Gil; 1 Jersey, £1 19s; 1 Jersey. Si'l 3s; 1 good reel iieifer. £3 lbs; 1 vealer runner, £2 lis; 1 good vealer, CI 15s: 1 good vealer. £1 Vs. I-AT SHEEP In the fat sheep market, 200 sheep were offered. Ewe values ranged from 14s 9d to 10s and lambs 17s 8d to It's 7d. Prices : Ewes.— Fifty at 15s; 10, 14s lid; 4, 15s; 17, 14s 9(1: 3 medium weight 2-tlis, 17s 9d. Lambs.—Eight at 17s 3d; 11, 17s 7d ; 15. 18s 7d: 84, i7s 9d. STORE SHEEP For a fairly good entry of store sheep there was aii active .sale. Lambs made kfls for ewes and lGs Id for wethers. Wethers realised 23s 5d for a pen of mostly fat sheep, otherwise to 225; breeding ewes, to 19s for sound mouth. After lunch the. sale continued to be very brisk, with some keen buyers for wethers and lambs, causing these classes to be sold in favour of the vendors. Prices : Lambs.—Two hundred and nineteen shorn wethers, well-grown, guaranteed store condition, 14s yd; 219 wethers, shorn, good size and condition, 15s Id ; 197 shorn wethers, good frame and condition, on account of Messrs. Kells and Turnbull. 15s; 132 woolly ewes, wellgrown, with condition, 20s; 99 wether.; of last lot, 16s Id; 124 shorn wethers, good size, good store condition. 15s 7d : i 69 shorn wethers, good size, in good order, a straight line, 15s 6il ; 60 good Southdowns, off hills, a few small, 13s 6d • 72 good solid Southdowns, 16s 3d; 114, medium size, lis 2d; 36, fairly good size, shorn, bright, 14s 3d. Wethers. —Two hundred and eleven well-grown, store condition. 20s 7d : 100. good frame and condition. 225: 357. on account of Messrs. Kells and Turnbull, largely fat, 23s 5d ; 107 good stores of last lot, 20s 8d ; 108. 2-th, store condition, some small, 19s; 2GB. 2-tooth, high country, store condition, medium frame, 19s' Btl • 117. good frame, with condition, 22s Bd. Breeding ewes.-One hundred and eighty-one,' r.w. Southdowns, fairlj good"iriouHis, fnirlv good condition, 15s; 65, Romney rams, late shorn, good store condition, 15s lid. 72. as last, next cut. 19s lid • 83, Southdown rams, in Hood order, no stated age, 12s 6d; 91, Rom ncv rams, good mouths, medium to go".! condition, 19s; 157 even mouths, Rconey rams, medium condition, 16s 5d ; it, 2-th, skins and condition, Romney rani! • 265; 73. guaranteed mouths, Southdown ranis, fairly good condition, 17s 3d ; 132, 4 and 6-tooth, oul of Inst pen. 22s 7d; 63, Southdown rams, till age;. mouths guaranteed, in good order. 22s Ed; 53 ?< tooth to 5-year, Romney rams, good store condition, 21s 9d, Dry ewes.--Seventy-two, good frame, forward. 12s 8(1; 20 fat and forward, 13s 7d.