COMMERCIAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5604, 12 April 1943, Page 5

COMMERCIAL

MORRINSVILLE STOGK SALE The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company Limited reports as follows on the firm’s Morrinsville stock sale, held last Friday:— Sheep; There was a good entry of fat sheep and lambs and a small entry of store lambs. Competition was steady, and prices were on a par with recent late rates. Fat wethers made 27s to 27s 9d, lighter 255, fat blackface hoggets 24s to 26s 6d, fat ewes to 15s, prime heavy fat lambs 26s 9d, light fat lambs 21s 10d to 225, forward wether lambs 17s 6d, black-face store lambs 14s, white-face store wether lambs Ils Id to 14s 3d. Cattle: A good yarding of fat cows was penned, and heavy prime quality was in demand and sold freely. An extra heavy entry of boner and store cows was easier in value, but prices for bulls were firm. Medium fat Shorthorn cows made £7 10s to £8 2s 6d, forward Shorthorn cows £6 4s to £6 10s, fat Jersey cows and heifers £5 10s to £6, lighter £4 15s to £5 ss, heavy boner cows £4 to £4 16s, lighter £3 to £3 15s, store cows £1 10s to £2 10s, bulls £5 to £9 2s 6d. Figs; A large yarding of fat pigs and a full entry of stores and weaners came forward. Bidding for baconers and porkers was very steady, with prices fully up to last week’s quotations. Competition for a large entry of store pigs was keen, values improving towards the end of the sale. Choppers also were in demand. Heavy choppers made £4 10s to £4 16s, others £2 5s to £4, prime topweight baconers £4 10s to £4 15s, heavy baconers £4 4s to £4 Bs, medium. £3 14s to £4 2s, light £3 6s to £3 12s, heavy porkers £2 14s to £3 4s, medium £2 6s to £2 12s. light porkers £1 14s to £2 2s, unfinished porkers £1 8s to £1 12s, large stores 18s to £1 4s 6d, slips 12s to 16s, weaners 4s to 8s 6d, service boars £2 to £3 17s 6d.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. reports as follows on their Morrinsville sale held on Friday, 9th April, 1943: A full yarding of fat and boner cows met with good competition, while heifers r.w.b. were dull of sale. Prices were: Heavy fat cows £5 10s to £6 15s, medium fat cows £4 10s to £5 7s 6d, boner cows £2 to £4 ss, potter bulls £4 to £6, baconers £3 10s to £4 ss, porkers £1 10s to £2 12s. RABBITSKIN SALE Messrs Dalgety and Company Limited report as on their rab-bit-skin sale, held at Dunedin last week: At the first of the winter season sales of rabbit-skins an offering of approximately sixty tons was submitted to a full bench of exporters. The demand was strong throughout, and values showed a considerable increase as compared with last sale’s prices. Racks and runners sold particularly well at 24d to 30d per lb firmer, and a small percentage of early autumns topped the market dt 114 d per lb. The range of prices was as follows: Small 353 d to 40Jd per lb, runners 82d to 88id, summers 46£d to 48d, autumn broken 61d to 63id, summer broken 43d to 46~d. milky does 45d to 46id, prime racks lOld to 104 d, light racks IOOd to 105 d, dawny autumns 93d to 98d, autumns 107 d to 114 d, summer black 12d to 18d, autumn black 18d to 24d, summer fawns 12d. weevilly 51d. Hare-skins 12d; horse-hair 25d. Owing to alteration in the’ date of Ithe wool appraisement to 20th April the next rabbit-skin sale will be held on 4th May.