STOCK AND PRODUCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 90, 16 April 1932, Page 9

STOCK AND PRODUCE

STOCK MARKETS SAKES OF THE WEEK. The Farmers’ Co-op. Organisation Society of N.Z., Ltd., report as follows: Weather conditions continue unsettled and the beneficial effects of the general rain is already being felt throughout the district. The stock business however, is restricted in all sections, it being between seasons as far as sheep are concerned and operators in the dairy cattle section cautious and although enquiries artf coming to hand, little business has eventuated as yet. The wool sale was as satisfactory as could be expected, the finer wools being i n demand up to 4d and 5d but poorer, inferior and shabby lots and all wools showing traces of seed were neglected and bidding was confined to very low levels. The outlook is obscure and it is difficult to forecast the trend of the markets in the next few months. Fat sheep remain on a par with a hardening tendency in the lamb section, due to another rise in the works' schedule for lamb, which is now and 4?d for seconds, while the wether price is 13s. In the store sheep section there is strong enquiry for good forward Southdown lambs which are difficult to find, sales having been made during the week in this section at from 8s to 10s depend big on size and condition of the lambs There is still a demand for 2-th. wethers for back country but these again are very difficult to find and quotations are few and tar between, purchasers having to content themselves with picking up odd lots at prices ranging from 9s to Jos. The fat cattle market is steady at last weekquotations, butchers filling their requirments mostly in the saleyards, truck lots of first-class prime station cows being sold during the week at £4, £4 5s to £4 15s. Amongst the dairy cattle, odd sales (F weaners have been made with a ti tick or two of in-calf heifers having been sold in both sections, prices main the same as last week’s quotations and business is restricted. Waverley Sale.—A medium entry of pigs and sheep and a slightly larger entry of cattle; an entry of store 6-th. wethers on account Eiminui station made 9s, store lambs ss, 5s 6d, 6s. 'carling heifers, medium, 255, 32s 6d; store cows, 14s to 18s, emptv heifers 16s to 37s 6d. WAVERLEY SALE. PRICES REMAIN FIRM. There was a fair attendance of buyers at the fortnightly sale held at Waverley yesterday by the Associated Livestock Auctioneer’s. The yarding comprised mostly lambs and was sold on late rates. Quotations were as follow: Wether lambs 5s 6d; medium ewe lambs, 7s 3d; cull m.s. lambs, 3s 9d; good ewe lambs, 10s Id; cull ewes, Is Bd. A number of ( nil cows of dairy herds brought from 10s to 17s according to age, quality and condition.

WOOL AT NAPIER IMPROVEMENT ON WANGANUI [ Fer Press Association. ] Napier, April 18. A disappointing offering as far as quantity was concerned and prices were up to id better than those ruling at the Wanganui sale earlier in the week were the outstanding features of the fifth and final wool sale of the season at Napier to-day. Only 3364 bales were actually submitted to the buyers, the smallness of the quantity no doubt being due to the fact that sellers are not willing to meet the market at the prices ruling at the present time, while many of those who gave instructions for their wool to come before the buyers found that their reserve prices were too high for the buyers, with the result that a considerable quantity was passed. The offering was of fair average wot* with a few lines of super wool included. Bidding was keen up tv* limits and the prices obtained were dearer than those at Wanganui and back to the level at the time of the Wellington sale. There was a email entry of lambs’ wool, this being Only medium in quality with the bulk containing seed. Prices for this class were the same as Wanganui and other late auctions. The entry as a whole, like most late-shorn back-country wooi were not of a particularly high order and comprised mostly crossbred. There was a very large and repre sentative bench of buyers. Bradford competed strongly for wools of all types and secured the bulk of the offering, Japan also coming in frequently for the better classes of wool and France also strongly competing for pieces suitable for requirements.