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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 58, 10 March 1931, Page 9

STOCK MARKETS

SALES OF THE WEEK Daigety and Co. Lid. report on tin sales of the week as under: There was a heavy yarding of both sheep and cattle, at the Ashhurst sale on Wednesday, 4th. instant. There was a keen demand for all classes of sheep, especially lambs, keen competition resuiting and a total clearance was effected under the hammer. Shorn b.f. rape lambs 7s 6d, 8s 7d, 8s lOd; good wan- wether lambs 9s Id; medium warn wether lambs 5s 6d, 6s 3d; small w.f. wether lambs 4s Bd. ss; woolly wether lambs 10s; 5-year ewes 4s to ss; 2-th. ewes 10s 6d, 12s 7d; small 2 th ewes 8s 6d; 2-th wethers 8s 7d; fat wethers 9s 4d to 12s 3d; 1 -shear Komney rams 1. .11 to 2gns; 1-shear S.D. ram Ign.; wcaner pigs Ils, .11s GJ, 12s 6d, 13s to 14s 6<l; light fat cows £3 5s to £3 7s 6d; empty cows £2 10s, £3; Jersey bulls £3 12s 6d.

There was a fair yarding of sheep at the Hunterville sale on Thursday, sth. instant, all of which changed hands: Cull wether lambs 2s 3d; small wether lambs 3s 7d; fair wether lambs 6s 6d; cull 2 and 4-th ewes 5s 6d; aged ewes 3s 9d; 5-year ewes 7s 8d; 2-th ewes J3s 3d to 14s.

There was a very large yarding of store sheep and store cattle and a moderate entry of other classes aM their Feilding sale on Friday, 6th. instant. Prices realised for the older breeding ewes were rather better than at the previous week’s sale, but young sheep and lambs were inclined to be easier, this being more especially noticed amongst the blackfaces- Practically a! total clearance was effected and the following are prices realised: Fat 2-ths 10s 3d t Ils 6d, Ils 9d; M-A. ewes 3s. 3s 6d, 4s 6d to ss; 5-year ewes 6s, 6s 7d, 7s 2d, 7s 9d; 4 and 5-ycar ewes 7s, 7s 3d, 7s lOd. to 8s 3d; 6-th to 4-year ewes 7s lOd to 8s 6d; 2-th. owes, small 8s lOd to Us 7d; 2-th, ewes 13s 6d, 13s 9d, 35s 3d, 16s to 16s 6d; cull lambs 2s 6d, 2s 9d to 3s 4d; small ewe lambs 3s 6d to 4s; medium ewe lambs 6s 6d to 7s Id; b.f. shorn rape lambs 6s Id, 6s Bd, 6s 9d to 7s; b.f. shorn rape lambs : 8s to 8s 6d; springing heifers £4 10s; to £5 10s; springing cows £7 to £8; empty cows 30s to £2; small Jersey woaner heifers 27s 6d; small 18-mths. heifers r.w.b. £4 6s; 18-months P.A. heifers £3 6s; 18-months P-A. steers £3 6s 6d; small 18-months P.A. heifers £2 10s; small 18-months P.A. steers 30s to 355; P.A. cows £4; 4-yoar P-A. bul locks £5 15s; 4-vear P A. Heerford bullocks £5 2s 6d.

THE RAETIHI SALE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Ltd., report on their fortnightly Baetihi sale of Friday last, as follows: Sheep came forward well up to advertised numbers. 5000 in all, of which our yarding was approximately half. B.uyers were present from all the surrounding districts and competition was ken throughout the sale, practically a total clearance being affected under the hammer, prices being on a par with recent sales. The entry comprised mostly two,, four and six-tooth wethers and seevral lines of w.f. lambs. The following is the range of prices obtained: Two-tooth wethers, 8s 11; four and sixtooth wethers, 7s 9d to 8s 9d; small b.f. two-tooths, 6s 9d; fat wethers, 8s 9d to 9s 3d; four and five-year ewes (low conditioned) 3s 6(1, 4s to 4s 6d; small four-tooth ewes 12s*. m.s. lambs, 5s 9d to 6s 9d; wether lambs, 4s, 4s 6d to 5s 9d; cull lamb« 3s Id. 3s 3d to 3s 6d; aged S.D. rams. 1 gn. to 12 gns.