STOCK MARKETS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 208, 5 September 1935, Page 11

STOCK MARKETS

THE WANGANUI SALE NO ALTERATION IN VALUES. Freeman R. Jackson and Co., Ltd., report on yesterday’s Wanganui sale as follows:—The yarding in all sections was an average one, prices being about on a par with last week. Fat cattle and sheep hardly made the prices per head, but the quality and weight was hardly up to last week’s standard. A good entry of pigs sold well, though bidding was not as free as has been the case, and in some instances weaner pigs were unsold, due to vendors’ reserves being taken from a particularly good sale a lortnight ago, when extreme values were realised. The dairy market was as has been the case right through August —sluggish and decidedly low, due no doubt to the entire absence of any spring growth. Dairy pastures round this district arc particularly bare. Quotations:— ►Sheep.—Prime ewes, 18s 9d, 19s 6d; ’Downs, 20s; fat ewes, 16s 6d, 18s fid; light ewes, 15s, 16s 3d; fat hoggets, good, to 23s 8d; fat, 18s 6d, 19s lOd; ewe hoggets, 255; b.f. hoggets, 13s IDd, 15s 4(1; aged ewes to ’Down rains, 18s 6d, 19s; cull empty ewes, 6s 6d, 11s. Pigs.—Light baconers, £2 ss, £2 10s. heavy porkers 365, 42s 6d; porkers, 28s, 355; good stores, 21s, 255; stores, 16s, 20s; good slips, 16s, 18s 6d; good weaners, 15s, 17s 6d; weaners, 12s 6d, 14s. (’attic. —Fat bullocks, to £11; light ditto, £7 15s, £8 10s; prime P..A. heifers. £7 7s 6d, £8 ss; fat P.A. and heifer cows, £6 ss, £7 7s 6d; light ditto, £5 10s to £6; fat Jersey cows, £4 15s, £5 7s 6d; light cows, £3 10s, £4 10s; cull cows, young, to 20s; aged cull cows. 7s 6d, 20s; small yearling heifers. 21s; dairy cows (close up), £3, £4; backward cows, £1 10s, £2 10s; good heifers (close up), £3, £3 ss; springing heifers, £1 15s, £2 10s; good vealers, £2 10s, £3 Is; fair vealers, 10s, 20s. BULLS SALE Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report a good all round entry of stock at their fortnightly sale held on Monday. Competition for all classes was quite good with the exceptio-n of dairy cattle, the de mand for these being very slack. They quote: Wether hoggets, 17s 3d, 18s ba. to 20s; fat ewes, 14s, 16s; weaner pigs, JO’S, 12s, to 15s; small stores, 14s, n. 19s; large stores, 20s, to 265; fat dairy cows and heifers, £2 10s, £3 Es, to £5 10s; store cows and heifers, 15s, 225, to £3; springing heifers, £2 ss, £2 10s, to £5,; heifers, in milk, 30s to £2 10s; dairy cows, 355, to £4. Quantity of sundries at ruling rates.

WESTFIELD SALE GOOD TONE IN MAKKET ( Per Association ) • AUCKLAND, Sept. 4. A very good market tone was a feature of the weekly Westfield fat stock sale. Generally, values were very firm, baconers being the only class to case slightly. Advances were made in a number of cases. Well-finished stock are getting harder to procure and present IcX'els are likely to hoid. There was an increased offering of cattle, the total being about 750. At least onethird comprised steers, the quality of which was again exceptionally goou. In spite of the heavier yarding competition remained very strong throughout the sale and last week’s advanced values were fully sustained. Cow and heifers beef also was in good demand, and values remained very firm. Top prices of £l6 10s for a steer and £ll fur a cow were for show catt’e. Extra choice ox beef, 30s per 1001 b.. choice and prime, 26s to 295; secondary and plain, 23s 255; piliue young cow and heifer beef, 26s to 295; other cow beef, 17s to 255; extra heavy prime steers, £l5 to £l6 10s; heavy prime, £l2 10s to £l4 17s 6i; prime, £lO to £ll 17s 6d; light prime. £8 15s to £9 17s 6d; small and unfinished, £6 to £8 10s; extra heavy prime young cows and heifer., £9 to £11; heavy prime, £7 15s to £8 17s 6d; lighter prime, £6 to £7 12s 6d; other killable cows, £2 10s to £5 17s 6d. A full supply of calves did not include many heavier weights. A keen demand ruled and prive levcis again hold. Lighter calves also sold well at fully recent rates. Runners, 50s to 120 s; vealers, 30s to 84s. Sheep of good quality were penned ir. under average numbers, the short supply bringing about an advance in prices amounting to Is for we;hers and 2s for ewes. Hoggets were in fair supply and also sold well at improved rates. Very few spring la/jibs were offered, local graziers finding it hard to bling them Io condition. Wethers, prime, 2>s to 35s 3d; unfinished, 20s io 24s 9'l; .wes, prime, 18s to 255; unfinished, 8s Cd rv 17s 9d; hoggets, 16s to 265; spring lambs, 20s to 30s 6d. Fat pigs came forward in good numbers, receding to the recent reduction in schedule rates for baconers. The demand for those was inclined to- be easier, few selling above 5d a lb. Porkers, on the other hand, met with bri-k vom*p('tilion at values r ullv firm on last week, prices being from shl I" 5Jd a lb. A shorter yarding of (Mores was the subject of keen demand at well up to late rates. VALUES AT ADDINGTON SOME SECTIONS RECOVER [ Per Press .association. I CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. I. Lullies wore of normal size nt tod.a\ ’s Addington market. Store, sheep .and fat, cattle recovered slightly in \aliie, but. mutton was cheaper. Store Sheep. A small entry and an improvement in hogget and ewe values of Is a head. Fat Sheep.—Previous week’s prices were scarcely maintained over the renter part of the sah* and slipped "\ei tho lin.nl singes. Extra, primp el hers I o 33s 3d, prime heavy 25s 3d to 295, prime medium weight 21s *o L’’>? 6d, ordinary 20s Io 2.35, extra prime heavy ewes to 29s 7d, prime heavy ewes 21s Io 235, prime medium weigh.* ewes 17s to 20s 6d. F:il Catlie. Heavy steers made big