LATE COMMERCIAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18087, 7 August 1936, Page 6

LATE COMMERCIAL

MATAWHERO STOCK SALE CATTLE SELL WELL The attendance of. the public at the weekly stock sale conducted by the Poverty Bay Stockbrokers’ Association at he Matawliero saleyards to-day did not mlTer as a result of the Horse Fair held earlier in the week. However, the yardings of both store and fat sheep were somewhat smaller than those of the previous week. The yarding of 100 fat rattle sold well. BEEF. , !u the beef section there was ail entry of 100 fat cattle, a good number of station cows being included. Fourteen Hereford* made .06 18s. and other Hereford's £5 6s to £5 17s 6d. A single heavy I’.A. cow realised £5 19s. .Jersey cows’ sold at various figures up to £4, ami good Hereford-P.A runners £3 Ss. 1 rices :

C ows. —Ono black dairy sort,. £2 17s; , 1 Jersey. £2 18s: 2 speyed; 1! eve ford cross. £5 17s 6d; 1 Hereford, £5 15s; 5 Herefords, £5 6s: 4 l’.A.. £5 17s; 4 Herefords. £5 10s; 1 briticlle, £3 IBs; 1 heavy P.A., £5 19s; 14 finished Herefords. £6 8s; 2 blacks, £4 15s; 2 Jerseys, £1 15s', 1 bvindlc. £3 Is; 1 Jersey, £3 Is; 1 red. £4 2s; 2 l’.A.. £5 10* ; l prime black, £5 16s; 1 Hereford. £5 11s: 1 red and white. £4 16s; 1 I*.A., £3 4s: 2 Jerseys, £2 Is; 2 Jerseys, £3 Ss : 3 l’.A., £4 2* 6d ; 1 Holstein heifer, £4 7s 6d; 2 Hereford-!’. A. runners, £3 2s; 1 Jersey heifer, £2 17s, 2 Jersey cross heifers, £3. FAT SHEEP Few shipping quality ewes came forward in the fat sheep section, the values for those offering being 24s 3d and 24s 4d. The rest of the entry was of average quality and made from 17s 9d to 20s. Prices : Ewes.—Thirty-nine at 17s 9d; 21, 24s Zd; 7,18 s 6d; 13. extra good, 24s 4d; 52/ 17s 10d : 38, 18s; 14, 18s; 6,20 s. STORE SHEEP

The. market for store sheep showed little change on recent safes, with empty ewes not selling so briskly. The s a.ding was small and all the. large pens ’were ollered before lunch. Breeding i-rv.s showing signs of good lambing ranged from 20s 3d to 245, and empty ewes of good quality 13s 3d to 14s 2d. lloggcts brought 21s 4d for a pen of realty good wethers, with good shorn at 19s 9d. Ewes with over ICO per tent, of lambs sold at 28s 9d, a little easier than recent values. Prices :

Empty ewes.—Ninety-two, good skins ml condition (p), 13s 3d; 44, good

.skins and condition, 14s 2d. Hoggets. —One hundred and thirtythree" woolly wethers, well-grown, with 1 condition, 21s 4d; 79 wethers, medium size and condition, 18s 9d; 192, shorn, fairly good size, fairly good condition, 17s 8d ; 320. shorn, good frame and condition. 19s 9d. Breeding ewes. —One hundred and eight, 2-tooth up, guaranteed, good skins and condition, 245; 43, fair mouths, in good order, all showing, 20s 3d : 66, fairly good mouths, in good order and showing, 21s; 84, 2-tooth up, light condition, some small, no bid; 73, good mouths and condition, Southdown rams, showing, 235. Ewes and lambs.—Twenty-seven ewes, most in good order, and 32 Southdown lambs, 28s Sd. Wethers.—Twenty-seven, fresh condition, 25 s. DAIRY PRODUCE MARKETS PRICES 1/- A CWT HIGHER A slight improvement lias taken place in the price of New Zealand butter and cheese in Loudon, and quotations received 10-day arc Is per cwt. higher than la week ago. The market is reported to be firm at (lie increased rates. At the present level of 117 s per cwt., butter is worth nearly 14d per lb., f.0.b., equal to a Inilterla! payment in suppliers of ldjd per lb., under the old scheme of tree marketing.

.Messrs. Joseph Nathan and Company report to-day as follows; —“Butter, 116 s to 117 s; the market is firm. Cheese, white 63s 6d, coloured 62s 6d; the market is firm.”