AN EASIER TENDENCY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1074, 11 September 1930, Page 11

AN EASIER TENDENCY

N.Z. STOCK MARKETS WESTFIELD REVIEWED By R.W.C. A slightly easier tone was recorded in the principal stock selling centres of the Dominion yesterday. Heavier yardings were the order of the day. At Westfield, the ox beef entry, numbering just on 250 head, contained some of the best quality of tho winter. There was evidence in practically every instance that the vendors had gone to a little trouble to get the cattle up to a condition which would qualify them for prime stock grade. A number of lines were starting to lose their winter coats, and this gave them increased bloom, adding to their attractiveness. The Waikato was again tho principal contributor. The North has sent very littlo forward to Westfield in recent months. A line of 40 station uuliocks came forward from the GisDorne district to meet with a ready sale; these cattle were not exceptionally weil finished, but they were good buying for butchers' purposes and averaged a shade under £l4. Tho market lor heavy prime catt.e was a litL.e easier than last week, but nandy weight sorts showed little change. Cows and heifers were also a little easier, especially toward the closq, but extra well-finished sorts made up to last week’s top quotations. Extra prime steers made to 42s a hundred; best young cows and heifers made to 40s a hundred. Show steers made up to £22; heavy prime steers made from £ls 10s to £lB 10s; medium, £l2 10s to £ls; light and small, from £lO. Choicest young cows and heifers made to £l4 17s 6d; heavy prime, £lO to £l2 10s; medium, £ 8 to £9 15s; light and small, from £6; unfinished, from £4. Calf Market Easier Tho market for anything but the best handy-weight sorts of calves was a little easier. Top price in the section was secured for an extra choice prime heifer, which sold for £9 15s; extra choice prime vealers made to £5 10s; heavy vealers generally made from £3 10s to £5; medium, from £2 ss; well-nourished fresh-dropped to four-weeks-old calves made from 15s to 355; exporters for the bobby veai trade paid from 5s to 13s. The entry of fat sheep was one of the heaviest of the season, six full rows coming forward, compared with an average of under five in recent weeks. Although there was still a small percentage of choice prime butchers’ ewes and wethers, the biggest part of the entry was made up of indifferently finished soi'ts, a big portion of which were hoggets. Prices were a shade easier, especially toward the close. Extra prime wethers made to 32s 9d; heavy prime, 28s 6d to 31s 6d;

BUTCHERS AND GRAZIERS! An interesting article by Mr. Thomas Marks, buyer for the Auckland Meat Company, who is at present making an extensive tour abroad, will be published in THE SUN Farm Page on Saturday next.

medium, 25s to 27s 6d; extra choice prime ewes made to 295; heavy prime, 22s 6d to 265; medium and light, from 18s. Hoggets made up to 29s 9d. The market for porkers was very firm, ranging round the equivalent of ,7d to 7id a lb. Baconers met with a littlo easier market at around 5Jd a lb. Choppers sold from £2 10s to £3 10s; heavy and medium baconers, £3 3s to £3 15s; light baconers and heavy porkers, £2 16s to £3 Is; medium porkers and light porkers, £2 8s to £2 14s; small and unfinished porkers, £2 2s to £2 6s. Store pigs were penned in average numbers. Competition was keen and values on late quotations were firmer. Large stores. £2 2s to £2 8s; slips, £1 12s to £2; weaners. £1 to £1 13s.

Stortford Lodge Market At the Stortford Lodge (Hastings) sale yesterday there was a large attendance of the public. There was a small yarding of fat cattle and a medium yarding of fat sheep, but a large yarding of store sheep. Best ox made 42s a hundred; cow beef made 40s a hundred; store cattle held firm at late rates; F.A. weaner steers made £4 16s; prime ewes, 60>b, made to 27s 6d; fat wethers, to 30s. Store sheep were very firm; two-tooth wethers made to 235; aged ewes and lambs, to 26s 7cl: medium wether hoggets, 17s 6d; all classes of stock were in short supply.

Johnsonville Market At the Johnsonville (Wellington) sale yesterday the yarding for beef comprised a. few pens of extra heavy bullocks, which met with keen competition and sold at values above last week’s rates. Tho bulk of the yarding comprised good medium to heavyweight bullocks, which sold at lata rates. The yarding of sheep comprised a few pens of extra heavyweight wethers, which sold at values fully equal to late rates. Medium and light-weight wethers met with keen competition and sold at values fully Is to Is 6d above prices ruling last week. Good quality ewes met with a ready sale at values equal to last week’s rates. Hoggets met with a good sale. The first yarding of spring lambs came forward and the prices were satisfactory.

Beef: Extra heavy bullocks, £lB to £l9; medium to heavy bullocks, to £l6 15s; other bullocks, up to £ls 15s. Sheep: Extra heavy wethers, to 32s 6d; heavy wethers, to 31s Gd; medium wethers, to 29s 3d; light to medium, to 27s 6d; extra heavy ewes, 24s 6d; medium-weight ewes, to 235; hoggets, 19s 3d to 24s 6d; spring lambs, 24s 6d to 27s 6d.

Addington Market Easier At the Addington market yesterday entries were larger in the major sections and prices tended to ease, after several sales at improving values. An entry of 35 spring lambs made from 20s to 37s 9d. An offering of 4,700 fat sheep included several lines from the North Island. Extra prime wethers made to 40s lOd; prime, 31s to 355; medium, 25s to 295; light, 20s to 245; extra prime ewes, to 35s 4d: prime, 24s to 28s; medium, 19s to 235; light, 15s 9d to 18s; best hoggets, to 30s 7d.

An entry of 1,445 fat cattle was drawn from the North Island, West Coast, South Canterbury, South Otago and Chathams. A drop of up to 20s a head was recorded. Best beef made 46s to 495, in special cases a little more; heavy, to 445; medium, to 40s; rough, down to 30s a 1001 b; extra prime heavy steers, £24 to £29 12s 6d; prime heavy steers, £lB 15s to £2l 10s; prime mediumweight steers, £ls 5s to £lB ss; medium quality steers, £l2 to £l4 10s; light steers, £9 12s 6d to £l2; extra prime heifers, to £l9 2s 6d; prime heifers, £l3 5s to £ls 15s; medium heifers, £ll to £l3; light heifers, £7 10s to £10; extra prime cows, to £l7 2s 6d; prime cows, £l2 5s to £l4 15s; medium cows, £lO to £l2; light and aged cows, £7 to £9 10s; vealers made up to £8 16s. Pigs met a keen market. Porkers made 55s 6d to 63s Gd; heavy, to 76s 6d (average price a lb, 93d to 10£d); baconers, S4s 6d to 96s 6d; heavy to £5 13s 6d (average price a lb, 7£d to 8Ad); choppers, £3 10s to £8 13s Gd. The yarding of store pigs was a small one, and they met with a good demand at firm rates. Large stores made 40s to 53s 6d: medium, 32s to 38s 6d; small, 28s to 31s Cd; slips, 28s to 325; weaners, 20s to 29s 6d.