FAT CATTLE PRICES DOWN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1944, Page 3

FAT CATTLE PRICES DOWN

AT ADDINGTON SALE YESTERDAY INCREASE IN PORK VALUES (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 24. At the Addington market today, in the fat cattle section the bulk of entry comprised unfinished steers and cows and all classes showed a slight decline. No change in prices occurred for fat sheep and with a small yarding in the pork section prices showed a rise. The store sheep sale was again firm throughout, the recent good prices being maintained.

Values over the main part of the sale did not vary much' for the reduced proportion of good steers, but in the final stages these showed a drop of up to 20s a head, other classes being easier by 15s a head. On the average good quality was down by 10s to 15s a head.

SALE AT .MASTERTON DEMAND FOR SHEEP The Wairarapa Associated Auctioneers held their weekly sale at Masterton yesterday to a good attendance of buyers. Sheep came forward in excess of advertised numbers and met with a ready sale, a total clearance being effected under the hammer. Fat ewes and b.f. lambs were, if anything, a shade easier owing to limited competition, while other sections wore on- a par with late rates. The following prices will indicate values:— Sheep: Fat wethers, 29s 9d, 27s 6d, 25s 9d; fat b.f. lambs. 22s 9d, 25s Id, 22s lOd, 23s 9d, 21s 6d to 20s 6d: fat S.D. ewes, 20s; fat ewes, 18s Id, 17s 6d, 16s 2d to 15s 6d. Store sheep: Store wethers, 28s 7d; f. and f., 28s; others, 27s 3d, 265, 25s to 21s 6d; w.w. lambs, good, 21s 9d to 21s 3d to 20s; b.f, lambs, good. 20s 6d; others,-18s 3d, 17s Id to 16s; shorn w. lambs, good, 22s Id; ewe lambs, good, 27s 3d, 20s; small, 15s Id. Pigs: Slips, 18s, 17s to 15s.