FINE FAT STOCK OFFERED TO-DAY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 184, 5 August 1931, Page 3

FINE FAT STOCK OFFERED TO-DAY.

GRAND NATIONAL SALE ATTRACTS GOOD CATTLE. Fat stock of exceptionally high quality was offered at Addington to-day, when the Grand National Double Market was held. The cattle section is always a feature of this sale, and to-day’s entry in this section was of a higher standard than for some years. A large number of North Island cattle were entered, and many of them showed excellent quality. Top price was £sl. compared with £44 last year. The entry of spring lambs was a little disappointing, although It was ! larger than last year’s. There were many entered which were not, strictly speaking-, milk lambs. Any genuine j spring lambs showing quality sold well, • top price being 43s 4d, compared with 04s 4d last year. The fat sheep section contained a number of pens of specially prepared sheep. Fat Cattle. Always the outstanding cattle market for the Dominion, this year’s National Market provided an entry which for ouality and size was equal to, if not better than, any similar market for some years. The North Island was heavily represented, there being 260 steers from districts in the north. They were in two consignments—one of 106 | head from Gisborne, Dannevirke and Palmerston North and the other of 154 head from Wanganui, Featherston and Palmerston North. The total entry was in the vicinity of 580 head and during the entire sale there was a very large attendance of spectators. The show bullocks attracted a great deal of attention. The proportion of southern consignments was not as large as at Na- | tional Markets during the last few years, ! due in part, no doubt, to the fact that i values at Burnside are little short of ; those ruling at Addington. The highest i price paid for a show beast in the first j half of the sale was £sl for one from j J. Holden (Dannevirke). Some early sales were:— I On account of G. F. Moore (Bushy : Park), 1 Hereford steer at £36, 1 at £2O ! ss, 4 steers at £l6 17s 6d to £l7 12s j (id, 1 Hereford steer at £ls; T. A. Dun- • can (Ro'ng-otea), 6 steers at £l6 17s 6d I to £lB 2s 6d: 33. Iv. Thompson (Kairanga). 27 steers at £l2 12s Gd to £l4 . 7s 6d; North Island clients, 20 steers at ' £9 5s to £lO 12s 6d; W. Leonards i (Hickory), 3 cows at £lO 2s 6d to £lO 17s Gd; Gracia’s Estate (Hickory), heifer ;at £8 7s 6d; Moore Bros. (Hickory), 12 heifers at £7 12s 6d to £9 12s Cd; Arthur ■ Helps (Akaroa)., 3 steers at £6 7s 6d to £6 12s Gd: R. Colle (Greendale), 1 j heifer at £l2 12s Gd; R. C. Fisken (Gisborne), 8 cows at £6 2s Gd to £6 17s Gd, 2 hoifers at £6 12s Gd: Butler Bros, (Ruatapu), 15 steers at £S 17s Gd to £ll I 17s Gd; Cheviot clients, 3 heifers at £4 i 7s Gd to £6 17s Gd, cow at £8 12s 6d; ' B. Croft (Spring-bank), steer nt £6 17s | Gd. 2 heifers at £4 17s Cd to £5 17s Gd; I clients, 5 steers at £ll 17s 6d, 3 cows • at £6 32s Gd to £S 17s Gd; W. Gardiner (Halswell), heifer at £9 12s Gd; H. B. S. Johnstone (Otaio), 7 steers at £l3 17s ! Gd to £l4 12s 6d; Toplis and Son (Inchbonnie), 2. heifers at £ll 2s Gd to £l3 7s Gd, 3 cows at £8 7s 6d to £S 17s Gd; .r Meyer (Tnchbonnie), 1 cows at £7 17s Gd; J. H. Doak (Laureston), 4 cows at : £8 17s Gd to £ll 7s Gd; client, 5 cows at £5 7s Gd to £8 7s Gd. Spring Lambs. There was an entry of 61 in the springlamb section, but the offering was disappointing. A large number of the iambs were not genuine milk lambs, and ! met with a poor response from the , buyers. Lambs showing quality were eagerly sought, and brought good prices. , Top price was 43s 4d, secured for a fine animal sold on account of L. G. Crump (Springston). A lamb was sold on ac- . count of J. D. Henderson (Halkett) for j 40s Id. Some early sales were:—J. D. I-len-j derson (Halkett), 5 at 24s 4d to 40s Id; 'C. Early (Springston), 2 at 20s Id; ! client, 2 at- 18s lOd; D. A. M’Vinney 1 (Weedons), .1 at 13s lOd; G. MTntosh i (Southbrook), 1 at 12s Id. Store Sheep. | The store sheep offering was very moderate in size, and consisted chiefly of ewes, of a very mixed descrijition. There . was a large attendance of farmers, but , the majority of them were merely spec- ! tators, the actual demand being corii fined to only a very few. There were : one or two useful-looking pens of ewes 1 that attracted attention, and these made fairly good money, but the inquiry was not as free as it has been lat%ly, and plainer sorts were hard to dispose of. Values did not show any great alteration. Vales were:— Good s.m. half and cross-bred owes 14s to 16s lOd. Medium s.m. half and cross-bred ewes 10s to 12s Cd. Plain s.m. half and cross-bred ewes 6s to 9s. Good six and eight-tooth Corriedale ewes to 16s lOd. Sales were as follows: Ewes—lSß s. and f.m. half-bred at Ss, 5S full-mouth Corriedale at 16s lOd, .31 s.m. half-bred at 10s 6d. 61 fullmouth three-quarter-bred at 11s sd, ' 50 full-mouth three-quarter-bred at 16s j 3d, 150 s.m. half-bred at 6s lOd, 153 j six and eight-tooth Corriedale at lGs J 9d, 51 four, six and eight-tooth three- ; quarter-bred at 16s 4d, 44 s. and f.m. I Romney cross-bred at 7s, 70 s.m. halfbred at 15s, 37 s.m. Romney cross-bred at 6s 3d, 113 s.m. half-bred at 14s. 32 i s.m. half-bred at ss, 119 s.m. half-bred j at 12s 6d. Fat Sheep. | The yarding of fat sheep was of very i good quality throughout, the show lines • being outstanding, although they were | not as numerous as they were last year. ! For a double market, the supply was a ' little short, and from the start of the sale there was a firming, with indica- . tions over the early stages that prices i would harden.