COMMERCIAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5598, 29 March 1943, Page 5

COMMERCIAL

MORRINSVILLE STOCK SALE The Farmers’ Co-operative .A’.w.tioneering Company Limited reports that at the firm’s weekly stock sale at Morrinsville on Friday a small entry of fat sheep and lambs sold under good competition at Ip/-p rates. A medium yarding of store lambs also met with improved competition and realised satisfactory prices. Quotations: Fat wethers 24s 3d to 27s 9d, heavy fat lambs 24s 6d to 27s 9d, light fat lambs 21s to 225, unfinished woolly lambs 18s, store woolly lambs 11s 7d to 13s 4d, small lambs 8s to 8s 4d, aged Southdown rams 1 to 31 gns. Cattle: Beef was yarded in good numbers, and with competition very free a satisfactory sale resulted. A heavy yarding of boners again came forward, and sold at values in advance of schedule rates. Interest was shown in the offerings of in-calf heifers, which in spite of the dry weather all changed hands at satisfactory prices. Heavy fat cows made £8 9s to £9 10s, medium fat Hereford heifers £7 to £8 7s 6d, medium fat cows and heifers £5 10s to £6 15s, fat Jersey cows and heifers £4 15s to £5 10s, heavy boner cows £4 10s to £5 ss, medium boner cows £3 10s to £4 ss, store cows £1 15s to £2 15s, bulls £5 to £8 2s 6d, medium Jersey heifers in calf £7 17s 6d,' medium Jersey-Short-horn heifers in calf £7 2s 6d, small Jersey heifers in calf £5 17s 6d.

Pigs: There was another good entry of all Classes, the demand for baconers and porkers being equal to that ruling at outside sales. Stores and weaners remained firm at recent rates Heavy choppers made £4 10s to £4 12s, others £2 15s to £4, prime top-weight baconers £4 10s to £4 15s, heavy baconers £4 4s to £4 Bs, medium £3 16s to £4 2s, light £3 8s to £3 12s, heavy porkers £2 16s to £3 ss, medium £2 8s to £2 12s, light £1 18s to £2 ss, unfinished £1 12s to £1 16s, stores £1 2s to £1 10s, slips 12s to 16s, weaners 5s to 10s

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. report as follows on their Morrinsville sale held on 26th March, 1943:

A full yarding of fat and boner cattle met with a keen demand. Several pens of fat lambs also sold well.

Prices were: Heavy fat cows £6 to £6 15s, medium fat cows £5 to £5 12s 6d, boner cows £2 10s to £4 15s, potter bulls £3 to £6 15s, medium fat lambs 19s to 225, store lambs 11s to 13s 6d.