GERALDINE SALE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20532, 25 September 1936, Page 16

GERALDINE SALE

SMALL YARDING The fortnightly sale was held on Wednesday last at the Geraldine sal?I yards. The stock that came forward was not numerous and the sale was about on a par with the Pleasant Point sale I held on Monday. ! Sales made were:— ■ Cattle: Springing cows to £6 10 , i bulls £2. | Sheep: Fat wethers 24 7t032 1, fat ewes 22/4 to 26 7, ewe hoggets 32/7, ewes and lambs (all counted! 15/4, ' aged ewes in lamb 16 3 to 23/-. ! Pigs: Weaners 12 /- to 16/-, slips *o ; 19/-. ST. ANDREWS SALE SOUND AUCTION Once agam a large number of cattle of all descriptions came forward for the St. Andrews sale. Moderate entries of store and fat sheep as well a* pigs, were forward. Although som-i of the butchers did not attend the sale, the market for both fat cattie and fat sheep was almost on an equal with late rates. Dairy cattle were harder to sell, and store cattle showed a slightly easing tendency. The pig market was about 3/- a head lower than at the previous St. Andrews sale. No change w’as noted in the store sheep sale, only five pens coming forward. Sales were:— Cattle: Fat cows £4 2 6 to £7/17 6. fat heifers £3 2 6 to £7 7 6, fat steers £6 2 6 to £B/7/6. runners £2/12/6, springing cows £3 2 6 to £6/5/-, cows in profit to £4'l2'6. springing heifers to £4, empty cows to £3/10/-, 18months steers and heifers £2/10/-, 18months heifers £2. bulls to £3/5/-. Fat Sheep: Fat wethers 29/- to 34 10. fat ewes 22 - to 26 4. Store Sheep: Aged ewes with good lambs passed at 15/11, aged ewes and lambs 14/4, small ewe hoggets 21/- to 26/-. Pigs: Weanar 8 - to 15/-, slips to 18/-, stores to 25/-. PHOSPHATE PRODUCTION A total production of 826,379 tons of Nauru and Ocean Islands phosphate for the year ended June 30 last, compared with 695.882 tons for 1934 and 556,589 tons in 1933 is stated in the report wf the Commissioner of the British Phosphate Commission (Mr A. F. Ellis). Mr Ellis stated that there was a substantial increase of 130,497 tons over the previous highest total, and in view of the expanding demand for phosphate ! fertilisers, an increase of the output from the two islands, was again being aimed at for the current year. To permit of this, further plant was being installed at the islands. Distribution of the output was as follows: —United Kingdom 6.000 tons; Australia, 561.200 cons; New Zealand, 192.879 tons; other countries, 66,300 tons. The proportion I of output which came to New Zealand was 23.34 per cent., as compared with 26.76 per cent, for 1933-34. Importations to New Zealand compared with the two previous years were 1933-34, 149,805 tons; 1934-35, 201,665 tons; 1935-36, 199,237 tons.