RANGIORA MARKET.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1309, 24 April 1918, Page 3

RANGIORA MARKET.

THE CONCLUSION. St'>re Sheep.—There were 1287 stores yarded, 517 of wliieh were lambs. The yarding was an inferior one, consisting chiefly of aged ewes and weedy lambs. The market was a very dull one, a large number of the inferior lines changing hands at lew prices; hut any good sheep offered realised good prices, though not on a par with previous soles. The following are the salee: — 9 two and four-tooth ewes 18 0, 25 two-tooth, ewes 15/9, 18 aged hut forward ewes 17 -, 80 aged ewes 11 3, 6* three-quarterbred aged ewes 18/-, 94, 55, and 75 aged ewes 11/6, 15'-, and 21/-, 04 two-tooth ewes 27/4, 10 ewe hoggets 20 :t, 10 wether hoggets 17/*; 25 ni.s. hoggets 209, 117 s.m. halfbred ewes 20,'-, 51 f.ni. ewes 19 Ift, 175 ihree-qunrter-lired ewe hoggets 20'5, X!G four, six, and eight-tooth ewes in lamb 20 i, 54 ni.s. lambs (weeds) B'-, 50 lambs 22/-, 22 four-tooth fat and forward wethers 25/10, and 04 four, six, and eight-tooth wethers 27 9. Two Shropshire rams sold at 2:! 0, and S Border Leicester at 20/6. Cattle. -There were 40 yarded. Store I I cows made £9 SO to £ll 10'-, springing heifers made £l2 10,'- to £lB 5 -. | Pigs.—lso were penned. Baconers made 80/- to 110/-, porkers made 55'- to W./-, J stores 40/- to 60/-, small pigs 10 - te 15/-.