MATAWHERO STOCK SALE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19099, 21 August 1936, Page 6

MATAWHERO STOCK SALE

STORE SHEEP DEARER EWE HOGGETS TO 29/10 BEEP VALUES IMPROVE Bidding was spirited in the store sheep section of the weekly stock sale conducted by the Poverty Ray Stockbrokers’ Association at the Matawhoro salevards to-day. wlu'n the exceptionally high price for five hoggets of 29s 10(1 was paid for two good quality pens, hi the face, of competition from outside buyers t he fat cattle market also showed an improvement. REEF With some outside competition, the. beef market was much better. Most of the entry comprised Jevsey cows, better finished than usual. Station cows made from £5 7s 6d to £6; good Jersey cows, £4 to £4 18s: and vcaiors, £1 16s to £2 6s. Prices: Cows. —One good Jersey. £4; 1 big Jersey cross. £4 18s; 1 Jersey, £3: 1 Jersey, £2 Is: 1 Jersey. £2 16s; 2 Jerseys, £3 5s ; 1 roan, £4 18s ; 1 Jersey, £3; 4 good Jerseys. £4 9s; 1 Jersey, £3 15s : 1 Jersey cross, £3 7s 6d ; 4 Jergo vs. £4 ss; 1 Jersey. £3 2s 6d ; 1 Jersey. £3: 1 Jersey,' £4 6s; 3 Jerseys, £3- 4 Jorsevs. £4 10s: 7 speyed Herofords. £5 8s; 6 ditto, £5 10s; 3 lighter, £3 7s; 2 Hereford-l’.A. cross, £5; 2 ditto, lighter, £5 7s 6d. Bullocks, —One medium finished Jersey. £4 6s. _ Heifers.- —Two Jerseys, £2i 18s; 1 Jersey, £2 4s; 1 black, £3 7s; I red, £2 12s; 1 good red, £4 19s; 1 Jersey, £3 11s. Vealers.—One- good vealer, £2 6s; 1 Hereford, £1 16s. FAT SHEEP The fat owes yarded were of average quality, selling at 2-ls 6d and 22s 9d. No outstanding ewes were offered. Scc-ond-grado ewes made from 17s to 20s, the latter pen containing a few first grade animals. Prices: Ewes.— -Filly-eight at 21s 6d; 31, 22s 9d ; 3. 19s 6th Lambs.— Two at 245; 1 small, 375. Wethers.—One at 255. Second grade ewes.—Thirty-eight at 17s; 19, 20s; 37, 18s. STORE- SHEEP

The entry of store slice]) was small, but. I lie sale had much life, in it and higher prices than lately were recorded. Ewe hoggets- reached 29s lOd, much higher than previous values. Wether hoggets made to 21s lOd and Southdown hogget ewes to 19s 4d. Ewes with above ICO "per cent lambs brought, from 28s to 29s 7d. Late lambing ewes- with good mouths sold at 19s 3d. Prices: Hoggets.—Olio hundred and twenty ewes, "fairly good size, in good order, 26s Id: 148 wethers, fairly good size and condition, 19s; 40 ewes, fairly good size, woollv. good condition, 26s 4d; 40 wethers of last lot, 20s 3d; 59 Southdown ewes, a good pen, 19s 4d; 266 owes, a good pen, fairly good size, good skins, full of condition, 29s lOd; 66, well-grown, in good order, short-woolled wethers. 23s lOd; 24 Southdown owes, with size and condition, 19s Id; 8b wethers, shorn as lambs, frame and condition, 21s lOd ;. 43 ewes, shorn, with condition, 26s 3d; 257 ewes, lighter skins, out of 29s lOd lot, 28s 7d. Ewes and lambs.—Forty-six, fairly good condition ewes, and 56 undocked Southdown lambs, 28s; 39 ewes, months right, most, hi good order, and 40 undocked lambs, 28s 8d; 18 ewes, mouths right, in good order, 21 Southdown lambs, 20s 7d. Breeding ewes.—23, in good order, r.w. Southdown rams, said to lie all showing, 19s 3d. DAIRY PRODUCE MARKETS BUTTER UP TO 122/- CWT. 2D A LB ABOVE GUARANTEE (Reed. Aug. 21. 2 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 20. The butter market is firm after the advance during] the week, New Zealand having improved 3s per cwt and Australian 2s. Danish remained unaltered from the quotations of a week ago. Present prices are: —Danish, 126 s to 128 s; New Zealand, choicest salted and unsalted, 121 sto 1225; Australian, salted and unsalted, 120 s. Cheese prices also improved during tlie week, New Zealand rising by 2s 6d per cwt, white selling at 70s to 71s and coloured 60s. Messrs. Joseph Nathan and Company report having received the following cable advice from London under yesterday’s date“ Butter, 121 s; the market is quiet. Cheese, white 70s 6d to 71s, coloured 57s 6d to 68s; the market is firm.’’ The price of 122 s per cwt quoted in the United Press Association message is the highest of the year, and within 6s per cwt of tho peak of last year, reached during October. _ At 1225, the f.o.h. value is 14J,d per lb/or nearly 2d per lb above the Government’s basic rate of 12 9-16 d per lb, i'.o.b. Under the old free marketing order, the price of 122 s in London would mean a payment of 13£d per 11) to suppliers. By this time last year, the market had not reached 100 s for New Zealand supplies. The cheese prices are the highest since/ November, 1931. To-day’s quotations compare as follows with tiiose of last week and lastyear, only the top figures being quoted in each case:—

London.—Aug. 20: Arrived at London, Mataron. Sailed, Tairoa, from Montevideo; Remnera, from Newport. Lyttelton.—Aug. 21 : Arrived, at 5.40 а. in., Port. Whaugarei, at 8.5 a.m., Kaimai. at 8.5 a.in., from Timaru ; Maori, at б. a.in., from Wellington. Dragging for the body of Michael McCauley, who has been missing from Clive since last week, met with no success. The missing man is a teamster employed j in a construction camp at Clive, and it is i believed that lie may have fallen into 1 the Ngururoro river.

September 1 will usher in restvict p<l purchasing hours in Napier, when (.lie new working period adopted by the Napier ‘'Retailers’ Association will be operative. To provide for tbc ‘ld-hour week in their shops, Napier retailers have adopted the billowing hours: —From .Monday to Thursday, inclusive, 0 a.m. to 5.30 p.iri. ; Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and on Saturday, 8 a.m. to noon. Formerly the shops had observed hours varying from 8.15 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. during tile week and to J 2.30 o’clock on Saturday. The, hours of Gisborne retail establishments will he fixed at a meeting to he held next week.

ToLast Last day week year Butt 01 — Now Zealand .. 95/Australian 94/Danish 109/Choose— N.Z. white ... 71/68/6 50/N.Z. coloured 68/65/6 49/6