GERALDINE STOCK SALE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21360, 1 June 1939, Page 16

GERALDINE STOCK SALE

INDIFFERENT QUALITY SHEEP OFFERED About 1000 fat lambs were yarded at Geraldine yesterday. Quality for the most part was indifferent, the same applying to a full yarding of fat sheep, principally ewes. Values were—

HIGH COMMISSIONER’S REPORT The Department of Agriculture has received the following message from the High Commissioner for New Zealand, dated May 26, 1939: Tallow Market continues quiet. Present spot quotations are: Mutton, fine 23/-; good 20/-; fair 16/-, 16/6. Beef: line, none; good 17/-; fair 15/6, 16/-. Mixed: Good, 17/-; fair 15/6, 16'-; gut 13/6, 15/-. Beef, dark to dull, 13/6, 15/-. Hemp Manila: Market dull. Closing values May-July shipment, £l6/10/-. Sisal: Market quiet and easier. MayJuly shipment, June-August shipment, quoted sellers £l6/15/-. Fruit Opawa, Piako and Kent discharged in good condition. Market is about the same. The following are the market values of sound condition fruit of the varieties mentioned, the range of prices generally representing the difference between the several grades and/or counts, variable conditioned fruit of similar varieties proportionately less in value. Cox's Orange apples, 10/- to 15/-. Granny Smith apples, 12/- to 14/-. Kid’s Orange Red, 10/- to 11/-. Jonathan, Delicious apples, 9/- to 11/-. Ballarat, Stunner apples 9 6 to 10/6. Dunn’s Favourite. Alfriston apples, 9/- to 10/-. Cleopatra apples, 8/- to 10/-. London Pippin. Lord Wolseley apples. 8/6 to 9/6. Comice pears, 11/- to 12/-, Packham’s Triumph Pears, 10 - to 10 6. Winter Nelis Pears, 8 6 to 10/6. Elizabeth Cole pears, 8/- to 10 -. Beurre Bose pears, 8 - to 9 6. Winter Cole pears, 7/6 to 9/6. Conference. Glou Morceau, Giblin’s Nelis pears, 8 - to 9/-. P. Barry pears. 8 -. Keiffer pears, 6/- to 8/6. Beurre Clairgeau, Beurre Die!, Twyford Monarch pears, 7/- to 8/-. Vicar of Winkfield pears, 6/- to 7/6.

Prime heavy lambs . Prime . 18/10 to 22/7 . 14/10 to 16/10 Light to 13/7 Prime heavy ewes .. . to 15/4 Average . 5 10 to 7/4 Wethers . 14/1 to 16/4