LIVE STOCK MARKETS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 135, 9 June 1937, Page 11

LIVE STOCK MARKETS

VALUES AT ALDINGTON 1 AT CATTLE CHEAPER ! i l Ter Press Association. I CHRISTCHURCH, June 8. 1 The weekly Addington fat stock • market was held to-uay instead of toi morrow due to the King’s birthday • observance. Much smaller entries • wore forward. Fat and store sheep I improved slightly in value but tat j cattle were cheaper. i Store Sheep—The few ewes penned met with a much brisker sale, making up to 32s Gd for two-tooths. Two- = tooth wethers sold at 24s 4d. Lambs ■ also were in belter request. i Fat Lambs.—Only a handful were forward and these sold well up to schedule rates, top price being 35s lOd. Fat Sheep.—A moderate penning of a little less than 4000, quality being indifferent. A good sale with an adi vance of from is to Is 6d for good j ewes and wethers; lighter sorts unj changed. Best wethers 36s to 39s lOd, ; good heavy prime 31s to 345, good 27s i 6d to 30s, inferior down to 255; best i ewes 23s t0,,265, extra to 31s, good 2Us : to 22s 6d, ordinary to 19s 6d. ’ Fat Cattle.—A very small penning ; of 330 head but the market showed no i improvement as a result, values even for the small showing of good cattle | being down by about 15s a head. The j sale throughout was irregular and ; there were instances of recent rates ! being maflained. Extra heavy steers j made from £l3 to £l5 7s 6d, good £lO 10s to £l2 10s, and light down to £8 10s. Best heifers made from £7 to I £lO 7s 6d, good from £5 10s to £6 15s; | best cow £6 10s to £9 10s, inferior , down to £4. ; Fat Pigs.—Porkers were Is to 3s a ; head dearer and prices ranged from 15s 6d to 53s 6d; average per lb 6d to 6id. Baconers 54s 6d to £4 5s 6d; average per lb 53d to 61u. THE WESTFIELD SALE SHORT MARKETS AND FIRMER VALUES (Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, June 8. Unusually short markets and -firmer values, especially lor wethers, calves and pigs, characterised the sale at Westfield to-day. No heavy beet was available, the quality generally being i inferior to that offered at recent sales. | Ox improved Is to 31s per 100 lb. for best grade and other classes ranged: Choice and prime ox 27s to 30s, unfinished 24s to 275, prime cow and heifer 24s to 28s, unfinished 17s to 235; heavy steers £ll to £ll 17s 6d, medium £lO to £ll 2s 6d, light £9 to £lO 10s, unfinished £6 to £9; extra heavy cows and heifers £8 to £ll 10s, heavy £6 10s to £7 17s 6d, medium £5 15s to £6 17s 6d, light £4 5s to £5 15s, unlinished £3 to £4 ss. An average entry of sheep included several prime pens of wethers which advanced Is each under keen competition. Good ewes were firm. Extra heavy wethers 35s to 37s 3d, heavy 33s to 35s 6d, medium 31s to 33s 6d, light 27s to 30s 9d, unfinished 16s to 26s 6d; extra heavy ewes 26s 6d to 28s 9d, heavy 25s to 26s 6d, medium 23s to 24s 6d, light 19s to 23s 6d, unfinished 8s to 18s 6d. Fewer lambs were sold at late quotations, prime sorts making 21s to 31s 6d, unfinished 12s 6d to 20s 6d. The yarding of calves was the smallest for about two years and after the recent steady decline values rose sharply by about 8s each. Runners £2 10s to £6 13s, heavy vealers £4 to £5 2s, medium £3 8s to £3 16s, light £3 to £3 6s, smaller £2 4s to £2 15s, unfinished £1 7s to £2 2s, bobby and rough 6s to £1 7s. Pigs were scarcer than at any other sale for about four years and some values were the best obtained in that period, although quality was merely fair and patchy. Choppers £2 to £3 6d, heavy baconers £3 15s to £4 Bs, medium £3 10s to £3 14s, light £3 to £3B, heavy porkers £2 14s to £2 19s, medium £2 7s to £2 12s, light £2 Is to £2 4s, unfinished £1 to £1 17s, stores 17s to 28s, slips 10s to 16s, weaners 4s to Ils. Baconers averaged 6Jd per lb. and porkers 6d to 6Jd per lb. FORDELL SALE YESTERDAY’S OFFERINGS TOTAL CLEARANCE EFFECTED The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. (Inc.’ in England) offered a yarding of 2500 sheep and 50 head of cattle at yesterday’s Fordell sale to a good attendance of buyers. Bidding was brisk throughout and a total clearance was effected ■ under the hammer. ! Ewes from Mount View Station met with a particularly keen demand, 1 4-tooth ewes making 355. 6-tooth ; making 36s Id, 2-tooth 35s 6d and the ! f. f.m. making 32s 3d. Wether lambs i sold well at late rates, at prices up to ‘ 20s. A pen of forward Cheviot lambs, late shorn, made 16s 4d. Forward b.f. : lambs made up to 16s lOd. Ewe j lambs yarded were only medium sorts. : but sold up to 17s 9d. A line of 256 i s.m. ewes to S.D. rams, on account of } J. W. Marsh, Esq., made 26s 4d. j We quote:—s and 6-year ewes r.w. Rom. rams, 25s 6d; 6-year ewes r.w. with S.D. rams, 26s 4d; woolly b.f.’ lambs, 16s lOd; forward shorn b.f. lambs, 16s; w.f. wether lambs, 17s lOd ito 20s; 20-months Oxers, £6 15s; 20I months' heifers, £4 17s 6d.