LAMB PRICES ARE SLIGHTLY LOWER.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 142, 17 June 1931, Page 7

LAMB PRICES ARE SLIGHTLY LOWER.

CATTLE MARKET DULL ! AT ADDINGTON TO-DAY. There was again a large entry of fat lambs, but values were easier when compared with Inst week. Freezing buyers again bought heavily. The cattle entry was smaller, and very mixed in quality. For all but the best beef there was an easier tendency, but there was no change in values. There was a small entry of «tore sheep of moderate quality. The sale was a dragging one. There was another heavy yarding of fat sheep. Pat Cattle. The entry of fat cattle was not as heavy as at last week’s market, totalling 339 head—a decline of 139 head. The quality was very mixed, but the North Island was again represented by two heavy consignments. There was one line of 36 head of steers and another of 20 head. They were wellfinished heavy cattle and met with a good demand. The first part of the sale was not marked by any keen competition however and values as compared with last week showed little alteration. With the exception of the very best beef, it was noticeable that the demand was not quite so keen and values showed an easier tendency without any quotable change. The line of 36 head from the North Island sold to fairly spirited bidding and secured the £l2 16* g^ vera ® e on suc h a market of Some early- sales were:—

On account of Miss E. Lewis (WincLlefoe«) * 1 steer «-t £lO 17s 6d. 3 heifers at 6d to £l °. 4 cows at £9 2s Gd to £ll 7s 6d; G. E. Thompson (Racecourse Hill) 1 cow at £8 2s 6d; E. H. (Wajkari), 1 cow at £8 12s 6d; Miss R. and K. M. Lukey (Waikari) 3 cows at £3 lm 6d to £6 12s 6d; W *H. Robinson (Tomore), 2 heifers at £4 10s; iSorth Island client, 36 steers at £ll 17s 6d to £l4 2s 6d; M. Bethell (Pahau p o astaref ’). 7 steers at £ll 2s 6d to £l2 Gray (Kaituna), 17 steers £ P 73 6d i Barrett and ?7« fl r^ d + ? op J? rß) ' 32 steers at £7 £2 < s bd to £5 7s 6d; R. and J. Gunn (Racecourse Hill), 1 heifer at £lO 17s ?o W /»jt £9 _ 12 s Gd; client. 9 steers 723 £ d to £6 2s 6d; client. 1 steer at £6 2s 6d, 1 heifer at £6 7s 6d, J. JVinchester (Irwell). 3 cows at £4 to it i7 Q 6d L 7 S? w s at £2 12s 6d to 6d '* R ;^ J o Candy (Port Levy), 13 steers at £7 2s 6d to £9 17s 6d, 4 heifers at £4 17s 6d to £5 12s 6d; L. Hooper, 6 steers at £7 7s 6d to £lO 2s

The yarding of fat lambs was 4600 compared with 5300 last week. The quality of the offering was not as good as that of last week, but there were some fine lines included. A feature of the sale was the activity of freezing buyers, a large proportion of the offering going to one' firm. As at recent sales exporters bought freely of the heavier lambs. The sale was a free one, but values were easier all round, the fall being 9d a head. Prices, which were last week over schedule rates, were down to schedule. The top price was 28s 4d, secured for five exceptionally good lambs sold on account of A. V. Richards (Mitcham). A very fine line of 151 shorn Jambs which came from thp South West Coast were sold on account of R. Ritchie (Bruce Bay) at an average price of IDs Id. Values were:— Show lambs, to 28s 4d. Extra prime lambs, 21s to 235. Prime lambs, 19s s to 20s 6d. Medium lambs, 16s 9d to 18s 6d. Light lambs, 13s 6d to 16s 6d. Store lambs, 10s 6d to 13s. Some earlier sales were:—

On account of E. Gates (Amberley), 32 at 13s 4d to 14s lOd; R. and J. Little (Seaview), 40 at 14s lOd to 18s lOd; J. Fleming (Mount Scobie). 20 at 14s 4d; P. F. Childs (Domett). 65 at 14s Id to 16s Id; A. D. I. Boulton (Glenroy), 5 at 13s 4d; J. Judd (Greendale), 6 at 16s lOd; client. 80 at 16s ,7d to 17s 1.0 d; client, 151 at 15s lOd to 19s Id; E. C. Derrett (Whitecliffs). 74 at 18s 7d to 20s Id; client, 6 at 15s 7d; A. E. Needham (Greendale), 12 at 19s Id; L. H. Dalzell (Culverden), 44 at 19s 4d to 21s Id; G. Tomlinson (Motunau), 16 at 13s to 16s Id; S. Hopkins (View Hill), 1 at 20s 7d; T. Gough (Greendale), 6 at 12s lOd to 21s 4d; W. P. Hampton (Prebbleton ), 25 at 10s 4d to 13s 4d; H. W. Walker (Aylesbury) 60 at 17s 7d to 18s 7d; P. J. Andrew (Greyburn), 31 at 13s, 4d; client, 76 at 17s lOd; R. J. Bell (Sandy Knolls). 81 at 17s lOd; V. Richards (Mitcham), 5 at 28s 4d; R. Ritchie (Bruce Bay), 151 at 17s lOd to 20s Id; H. and F. M’Guigan (Chertsey), 65 at 14s 4d to 18s 7d; cliept, 79 at 16s 7d to 19s 7d; E. P. Tilley (Coaigate), 14 at 11s 7d; Mrs Firmston (Teddington), b al. 15s lOd to 18s 4d; G. L. Rutherford (Parnassus), 21 at 13s 4d; N. Rutherford (Parnassus), 14 at 14s Id; G. Stanley (Harewood), 19 at 17s Id; Brown and Son (Waiau). 12 at 16s 4d to 16s lOd; G. O. Pannett (Scargill). 38 at 15s 7d to 18s Id; H. M. C. Dampier Crossley (Rotherham). 80 at 12s Id to 14s 4d; A. G. Webster (Allandale). 24 at 13s 7d to 20s 4d; E. Streeter (Halswell), 2 at 21s; J. F. Nicklaus (Yaldhurst), 20 at 20s 7d to 20s lOd; F. W. Carpenter (Prebbleton). 100 at 14s lOd to 16s 7d; F. B. Robinson (Springfield), 56 at 16s Id to 18s Id; R. Garlick (Oxford), 24 at 15s lOd to 19s 4d; H. Banks (Governor’s Bay), 15 at 16s 4d to 17s Id; P. Dobbie (Prebbleton), 20 at 11s Id; W. M. Gebbie (Southbridge), 27 at 19s lOd to 21s lOd; Mrs D. M. Martin (Eyreton). 11 at 15s 7d to 16s 7d; Byreh’s estate (Motunau), 318 at 15s lOd to 19s lOd; T. Doody (Oxford). 24 at 14s lOd to 16s 4d; H. J. G. Kelly (Spotswood), 16 at 18s 4d; F. H. Upston (Spotswood). F. D. Frizzell (Springbank), 3 at 22s lOd; W. F. Donald (Amberley), 20 at 19s 4d; J. Ballagh (Hororata). 20 at 15s Id to 19s Id; R. J. Woolf (Horrelville), 7 at 11s 7d; P. Clinton (Greendale), 10 at 13s lOd to 18s Id; H. Matthews (Waikari), 43 at 18s 7d to 22s Id; E. A. Dennis (Hororata), 67 at 14s Id to 17s Id; W. F. Magaon (Rakaia), 42 at 17s Id to 18s lOd; J. Germain (Aylesbury), 11 at 16s lOd; W. H. Turner (Waikari). 20 at 19s 3d; A. Cochrane (Courtenay). 55 at 17s 4d; Ensor Bros. (Domett). 81 at 16s lOd to 17s 4d; R. Innes (Springfield). 79 at 15s 7d to 17s 7d; J. s. Zuppiclch (Balmoral), 154 at 16s 30d to 17s Id; estate H. J. Harrison (Rakaia). 140 at 16s 4d to 19s 4d; J. J. Earl (Waikari), 20 at }*L S i°r- 233 10d: W - K- M'Alpine (Spye), 75 at 18s lOd to 20s Id; J. M. Harrison (Chertsey), 12 at 19s 7d to 2!s 7d; W. and T. H. James (Leithfield), 12 at 20s 7d to 21s lOd; G. H. Fowler (Halkett), 19 at 19s Id; C. B. Davis (Aylesbury), SO at 15s 4d; V. Rivers (Culverden), 12 at 13s Id to Z d; A * Peth Y (Ealing), 22 at 22s Id; J. Payne (Springston), 27 at 19s 7d to 20s 4d; T. Streeter (Motukarara), 13s Id to 15s 4d; Goss Bros. ( Tl *3wal d )’ 55 at 20s 4d to 20s lOd; H. Nutt (Motukarara), 74 at 14s lOd to Cart er (Springston), 12 at 19s 7d; Mrs Ridgen (Greendale), 11 at i! s * ld .i,. A *. p ove (Waipara), 28 at 15s 4d to 17s 4d; Busch Bros. (Amberley), 46 at 16s 7d ; Lloyd’s estate (Ashburton), 83 at 12s lOd to 15s 30d; Kincaid Downs (Kaikoura), 46 at 15s 4d to 17s 4d ?, G ’ Hutt ° n (Hawkins), 20 at 11s i c’-.«, F - -Hubbard (Greenpark), 27 at if 8 Clarkson (Greendale), 18 at Robertson (Dromore), 76 oj 4d »_ H-Robertson (Rakaia), k a \ 7d ’ L. Henderson (Ayles- ! >ury 2; 14 at 12s lOd; J. Payne (Tald- ? 25 , at 17 » 7 <3: A. E. Woods w 8 at ISs Trl : P. Uangrdale (West Melton), 10 at 17s JOd; if. C. (G'eenparlt), 20 at 20s 7d; Emms Kros. (Kaikoura), 9 at 16s lOd to 20s Store Sneep. *p n * rles of store sheep were again sele !r eU S „'S all r and consl - s '«l of a mixed rf.,, !:,. of ewes and wethers, with a tfm yarding 18 larnb3 ' Tl 'e Quality of TOO®. -f was very moderate. There ers h.,r al r. 'a 1 '®"® attendance of farmiere were very few buyers among- them, and the sale througnout fnr „ very dragging one, particularly t'' e ewes which were difficult to sale? 5 ® There were one or two good sales of wethers. Plvelor six nens of ewes and lambs were passed P '"°1„ a"d eight-tooth half-bred to''l < !s I '6d Sm ' open -woolled ewes. 10s 6d GOOCi S ' m ‘ open ~woolled ewes, to 12s to^Os'gd l tw °- tooth half-bred wethers, cross-bred wethers. 7s to Oood six and eight-tooth half-bred wethers, to 13s. Ordinary six and eight-tooth half-bred wethers, to 9s 6d. Good wether lambs, to 9s 3d. Ordinary ewe lambs, to 9s. Backward lambs, 3s 6d to 6s 6d. Some of tli© sales were:— Lambs—2l9 three-quarter-bred weth3d* mixed sex half-bred at •>s «d, 21 at 3s 4d, 140 tliree-quarter-bred ewes at 9s. a^ ers — 72 two-tooth half-bred at 10s Bd, 71 at 10s, 280 six and eight-tooth Romney cross at Ss 3d. I*o at 7s fid. 41 if 1 * and eight-tooth half-bred at 9s 7d, 140 six and eight-tooth half-bred at 13d Ewes—-ino six and eight-tooth halfbred at 32s Gd. 41 sound-mouth Romney cross at 1 0s 9d, 73 Romney half-bred r.t , 1 s • ><J - ° 4 f°ur. six and eight-tooth halfbred at 10s lOd, G 6 sound-mouth Rom-

ney cross at 11s 9d. 250 sound-mouth half-bred nt 10s to 10s 3d. 67 soundmouth three-quarter-bred at Jls 6d. Tat Sheep. •There was again a very large entry of fat sheep, but the quality was not up to that of last week. Over the early stages of the sale values were on ii par with those ruling last week.