ADDINGTON YARDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16908, 6 December 1922, Page 8

ADDINGTON YARDS.

METROPOLITAN WEEKLY MARKET. TO-DAY’S SALE. There was a- fairly large yarding of beef at the metropolitan weekly market at Addington to-day, but mutton Avas in short supply, there l>ciiig only eight and a half races of fat sheep forward. At the start the fat cattle sale was not. particularly bright and prices showed no improvement on the reduced ones of the previous week. Fat lambs again met with a good demand and taken all round prices were on a par with those of the last sale. Store sheep met with a. remarkably good demand and all round pnoes were belter than even the good ones of last tveek. STORE SHEEP. There was a larger entry of store sheep than last week. ft consisted chiefly of wethers with a few lines of ewes and lambs. There A\*ere a lot of good wethers forward. The demand was remarkably good throughout for wethers and prices were better than even the good ones of last week. Ewes and lambs also sold very well at improving prices. A rather iriteresting feature of the sale was two trucks of store lambs, tlie first of the season. One line from the Peninsula made 22s 5d and the other line 20s Gd. A line of tAvo, four, ancl six-tooth Chatham Island ewes made 28s 6d. Values wen*:Porward, four, six and eight-tooth wethers, 26s 2d to 28s 9d. Good four and six-tooth wethers. 24e to 26s 3d. Gull, four and six-tooth Avethers 17s Gd to 21c 4d. Good two-tooth wethers. Jls <>d to 23s Gd. Plain and inferior two-Looth wethers 16* 7d to 19e 9d. Cull two-tooth wethers 14s id. Kane lambs 20s 3d to 5,-j Aged ewes and lambs 16s 9d to 20s 6d Sound and failing mouthed woolly ewes and. lambs !7s 7d to 22s fall counted ) Ajred woolly «*«, ami forward lambj 26s (all counted). The following were best sales a SS OU S t t OI 2T- Gibbs IDaxfield). 2 at oßs 6d. R. J. Black (Waikari) 46 at n a f ? ™ s J d J W ' ■ T - Wilson (Sprinmton). 32 St 3d K - »• M'Lean (Knkaia) do at 29s to 3os 6d; W. F. Franks (Upper Fendalton) lat 355; H. Banks (Coutts Island). 30 at o-Os (kl to 33s 9d - E Skurr(Oxford) 10 at SIX: J. Coe (Irweil), 25 at J - °- Chamberlain (Brookside). 1' at ■**? 32 * od: J. Reese (Soutbbrid B e> o 8 at -7s 3d to 32s 3d: J. P. jVf'Evedv (Southbridge) 40 at 28* to 325; client 6 at 318 9d: J. D. Hall, (Hororat-a). 36 at 6d fo 31s 9d. T. Inch (Oxford) 12 at *">9B ~6d to 318 6d; D. Bailey tPapanui) 5 at 80s to Jls 6d : Mrs Bowman (Oxford), 15 at 3 3(1 to -ll's 3(f atterßon (Lakeside) * 30 at