LIVE STOCK SALES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 19

LIVE STOCK SALES

BEEF PRICES MAINTAINED

SHEEP VALUES FIRMER

EASING IN BACONERS

WESTFIELD MARKET

(Pm- Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day

The quality throughout was first class, in a smaller entry of beef at the Westfield stock sale yesterday, with cows and heifers forming a majority of yarding. Late rates were I'uliy maintained under a steady demand. Extra choice ox beef made 40s per 1001 b.; choice and prime, 34s to 395; unfinished, 30s to 365; prime cow and heifer, 32s to 38s; secondary and unfinished, 25s to 31s.

Extra heavy prime steers sold at from £ls 15s to £l7 7s 6d; heavy, £l4 5s to £ls 10s; medium, £l2 15s to £l4; light, £lO 2s Gd to £l3; extra heavy prime cow and heifer, £lO 10s to £l2 2s 6d; heavy, £8 10s to £lO 2s Gd; medium, £7 5s to £8 15s; light, £G to £7 10s; unfinished, £4 5s to £G 10s.

Values for an average yarding of sheep were inclined to firm slightly under steady competition. The quotations are for shorn skeep. Extra heavy prime wethers. 24s Gd to 2Gs 3d; heavy. 24s to 255; medium, 20s to 24s 9*d; light. 18s Gd to 22s Gd; unfinished, 10s Gd to 18s 9d; extra heavy prime ewes, 20s to 225; heavy, 17s to 20s 9d; medium, 15s to 18s Gd; light, 12s to lGs 9d. Values for hoggets were slightly lower at from 3s to 23s 3d.

Spring lambs were varded in lesser numbers and sold from 18s Gd to 29s 9d.

Prime quality and heavy vealers were yarded in insufficient numbers for butchers’ requirements and values were fully maintained. Runners sold from £4 to £8 17s; heavy vealers, £5 15s to £7 Gs; medium £5 to £6 17s Gd; light, £3 8s to £4 17s; small, £1 Is to £2 Its: smaller, 7s to £1 4s; bobby and rough, 3s to 20s.

Competition was dull in the pig section and values generally cased, the decline being more marked in the prices for baconers. Choppers made from £1 to £4 4s; heavy baconers, £3 12s to £3 lGs; medium, £3 Gs to £3 11s; light, £2 19s to £3 ss; heavy porkers, £2 12s to £2 18s: medium. £2 Gs to ££ 11s; light. £1 18s to £2 4s; stores, £1 10s to £2 4s; slips, £1 2s to £1 lGs; weaners, 16s to £1 2s. The average quotations for baconers were about Gd per lb. and for norkers from Gld to 7d per lb.

BEEF RATES FLUCTUATE

FAT SHEEP ERRATIC STOW TRIED LODGE (Pur Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day. Out of a yarding of 150 head of fat and station-bred cattle, qualitybred lines were in the majority at the weekly sale at Stortford Lodge yesterday. Bidding and competition were fairly keen at the commencement of the sale, but as the day progressed, values had a falling tendency. There was a short yarding of ox beef. In spite of this, values were down, the best price being £l3 10s. Other prices for bullocks ranged from £8 Is. Considerable fluctuations occurred in the market throughout the day. Some good quality heifers were penned and tops realised to £lO 2s Gd and others from £8 2s Gd. Extra prime cows made from £9 to- £lO 4s and medium sorts made to £8 10s. Caution again was shown by buyers of store sheep and interest was lacking. Good well-woolled hoggets made to 21s Bd, ’Down cross types up to 18s 4d, shorn two-tooth wethers to 14s lOd and shorn two-tooth ewes brought 245, and ewes, with lambs at foot, up fo 12s 7d.

There was only a very small yarding of store cattle and, except for three straight station-bred lines, the

offering consisted of small miscellaneous pens. P.A. -Hereford cross twoyear steers made to £8 17s and good store cows, in forward condition, up to £5 10s. Good fat dairy cows sold from £4 to £5 l'7s Gd, with medium sorts from £3 7s Gd and inferior types down to £2.

Fat sheep met with an erratic market. Prime shorn' ewes, in excellent condition, made to 19s and others realised from lGs to 18s lOd. Only half a dozen spring lambs were on offer anrf these sold from 20s 3d to 25s 3d. Prime woolly wethers brought to 20s 9d and wootly ewes to 20s Gd. WETHERS IN DEMAND FAT SHEEP RATES DOWN ADDINGTON VALUES (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Entries were of exceptional size, at the double market to-day preceding carnival week. Cattle numbered 720 head and fat sheep about 9000. Store sheep came forward in larger numbers and there was a keen sale for forward wethers, which made for the best -sorts from 20s to 21s lOd. Ewes and lambs, tor the best sorts, made to 15s Id; woolly ewe hoggets to 27s 7d and shorn wether hoggets to 14s 7d. Adult wethers were in firm demand.

A penning of 700 odd spring lambs met with a sharp relapse in values which ranged from BJd to per lb. The fat cattle entry included much good quality and the sale showed little change in spite of the large entry on the values of a week ago. There was a slight easing later on, however, to the extent of 15s to 20s for heavy cattle and about 10s for prime medium weights and heifers. Best beef made 44s to 46s per 1001 b; heavy weight 41s to 43s and secondary down to 355. Several truck lots of steers averaged £lO to £2O and heifers £ls 2s Gd.

The entry of 9000 head of fat sheep was far in excess of the trade's requirements for a fortnight and the sale opened easier by up to Is Gd for the best wethers, with medium to 2s Gd lower. These values were little changed during the sale. Ewes showed only minor change. Wethers, shorn, made to 23s Id and ewes 25s 7d. Vealers met with a keen sale at values about 4s a head better than a week ago. Fat pigs showed little change in the porker section. Baconers were a shade firmer. Choppers were weaker, making from £1 18s Gd to £5 10s; porkers, £2 Gs Gd to £3 9s Gd. The average price was 73d per lb. Baconers made from £3 10s Gd to £5 lGs Gd, the average price being 7ld to 8d per lb.