ADDINGTON YARDS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 600, 2 November 1932, Page 8

ADDINGTON YARDS.

November Double Market Held To-day. BEEF AND LAMB CHEAPER. The November double market was held at Addington to-day, when heavy offerings were forward in the fat stock sections. Beef was cheaper, owing mainly to the large entry. Dines were forward from the North Island and from other outside sources. Fat lambs, of which there was a huge yarding, were cheap. rat Cattle. The entry of fat cattle was about 550 head, and included large consignments from outside the province. From the North Island there were about 70 cows and heifers, and from Otago, Southland and South Canterbury large lines of steers were penned. From the outset values were easier, and with half the sale gone the decline amounted to 10s to 15s a head for all classes. Fat Lambs. There was a very large yarding of faf lambs, the total being somewhere in the vicinity of 3000. From the outset of the sale it was apparent that the entry was much too big for requirements, and the price slumped sharply. Small lambs suffered most, but even the best were to be bought cheaply. Over the first half of the sale the average price was about 3£d to 4d a pound. Some early sales were:— The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., sold—On account D. Spence, 11 at 9s lOd to 10s 9d; C. W. Turner( Halkett), 68 at 8s lOd to. 11s Id; J. Steele (Kimberley), 7 at 10s Id to 11s 4d; R. Lockhead (Rakaia), 11 at 13s 4d. ' . Store Sheep. Though considerably bigger than last week’s, entries of store sheep were by no means as big as they usually are at this time, and they consisted for the most part of odd small lines. A fair amount of interest was shown in the sale, particularly iri the sale of ewe hoggets, which were in keen demand at prices that were Is 6d and in some cases 2s above recent rates. One line brought 16s 4d, the best figure this season. Even with the shortage of this class of sheep, it appears to be on the dear side, as the hoggets were nothing out of the way. Ewes and lambs did not vary much in value, and wethers were much the same. There were one or two passings among the wethers. Values were:— Good ewe hoggets, 35s 9d to 16s 4d. Medium ewe hoggets, to 13s. Shorn wether hoggets (small), to Ss 6d. Two-tooth shorn ewes (dry), to 12s. Shorn wethers, 7s 9d to 10s 2d. Ewes and lambs, 4s lOd to 6s Bd. Representative sales were:— Ewes and Jambs—24o three-quarter-bred woolly ewe hoggets at 16s 4d; 52 at 13s; 30 shorn wether hoggets at 8s 6d; 49 two-tooth half-bred ewes at 12s; 10 four-tooth half-bred at 4 s lOd; 27 half-bred ewes and 28 lambs at 6s Sd; 4S three-quarter-bred ewes and 52 lambs at 6s 6d. Hoggets—Bo mixed sex half-bred hoggets at 8s lOd; 80 half-bred ewe hoggets at 15s 9d; 80 three-quarter-bred hoggets at 12s 6d: 23 half-bred ewes and 23 lambs at 4s lOd. Wethers—36 half-bred aged wethers at 7s 9d; 51 four and six-tooth halfbred at 9s; 64 half-bred at 10s 2d.