COMMERCIAL.

Waipawa Mail, Volume LII, Issue 117, 8 July 1931, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

WAIPUKURAU STOCK SALE. SMALL, YARDING. The weather conditions were ideal for the weekly stock sale at AVaipukurau yesterday. The attendance of the public was smaller than usual, and the small yarding of fat cattle, comprising three pens of lightly finished P.A. cow and heifer beef, met a very easy demand, selling finally at £3 7s, £4 and £4 10s respectively. Taranaki beef, in the form of a small lightly finished Jersey heifer, passed at £2 ss. There was a fair-sized yarding of fat sheep, the quality leaving something to be desired in many cases. Lightly finished ewe lines were particularly in evidence, though some wether lines were in good order. A fairly-grown and finished lamb line opened the sale, making a fair sale at 13s. Fat ewes of big' frame, but lightly finished and with the appearance of having gone back, realised 8s 9d. A bid of 13s 3d secured a fair line of lambs, fattened on the turnips. A start of 12s commenced the bidding on a good line of fat wethers, another draft off the turnips, which were good buying at 13s 10d. A big in the bone and fairly woolled and covered line of fat ewes realised 10s Bd.

Second-class ewes were built for export at 8s 9d. A line of wellfinished wether mutton sold at 12s, while fairly finished ewes made 10s 3d. A big draft of fat lambs, mixed in size and condition, sold at an advance on last week’s rate at 10s 3d. A single fat wether, big in the frame and in light prime order, realised 15s 3d. A really excellent price of 20s was realised for a first-class pen of eight prime heavy wethers, sold on behalf of Mr W. T. Kuru, of Porangahau. With export buyers busy in the pens, two drafts of medium conditioned lambs sold at 10s Id and 11s 6d. A small pen of prime lambs made a good sale, finally realising 15s. Twelve light prime four-tooth wethers sold at 13s 3d. A bid of 16s 3d secured a good line of prime well finished wether mutton. The best pen of fat ewes in the yarding, big in frame and nicely finished, sold to a Hastings butcher at 14s. These sheep would have realised 15s at least at Hastings last week. Taken over all, the sale of fat sheep was perceptibly brighter than last week, lightly finished ewes and lambs meeting a better demand. Values yesterday, considering the quality of the yarding, were not very much below the Hastings rates. Export buyers were busy in the pens and again provided the basis of competition, with outside butchers coming in on suitable lines. A big draft of 180 lightly finished fat ewes, offered on account of Mr Harry Rathbone, did well to top the Us mark. In by lorry from Te XJri, a draft of fat lambs off the turnips sold at Us.