STOCK MARKET.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 October 1930, Page 5

STOCK MARKET.

i JOHNSONVILLE SALE. - ‘ At Joknsonville yesterday, Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., and Abraham and Williams, Ltd., offered to an average attendance of butchers a medium yarding of good quality cattle and a large yarding of all classes of sheep. The cattle yasding consisted mostly of good heavy-weight bullocks, with a few pens of medium and lighter sorts. Only one pen of cows and heifers was yarded, no vealers .coming forward. Prices for heavy bullocks were on a par with last week’s rates, but competition was not keen for medium and unfinished cattle. The sheep yarded comprised several pens of good heavy wethers, which met with keen competition and sold on a par with last week’s rates. Woolly ewes were dull at sale, and showed a further drop of Is per head. Shorn ewes sold well. Hoggets and spring lambs sold at prices slightly firmer than those ruling last week. Prices ranged as follow: —Extra heavy bullocks, £l7 15s, £l7 10s, £l7 ss; heavy bullocks, £l7, £l6 15s, £l6 12s 6d, £l6 7s 6d, £l6, £ls 15s; medium bullocks, £ls 2s 6d, £l4 17s 6d, £l4 12s 6d, £l4 ss; light and unfinished bullocks, £l3 15s, £l3, £l2, £ll 12s 6d, £lO 15s; light heifers, £8 7s 6d, £8 2s 6d, £7 15s; dairy cows, £5 15s, £5 10s; heavy woolly wethers, 31s 6d, 30s, 29s 9d; medium woolly wethers, 27s lOd, 27s 6d, 275; heavy shorn wethers, 2Ss 4d, 37s 6d, 275; extra heavy woolly ewes, 21s, 20s 6d, 20s 3d; woolly ewes, ISs 9d, 18s 4d, 18s; heavy shorn ewes, 17s lOd, 17s; medium shorn ew-es, 16s 6d, 16s; hoggets, 23s i6d, 235, 21s 9d, 20s 6d; spring lambs, 22s 9d, 21s Bd, 21s-Id, 20s 10d, 20s 4d, 20s Id, ISs 7d, 17s 2d.