STOCK MARKET

Wairarapa Daily Times, 17 March 1932, Page 5

STOCK MARKET

JOHNSONVILLE SALE. Prices generally were firm at tae Johnson ville sale yesterday, when Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., and Abraham and Williams, Ltd., offered to a large attendance of buyers a full yarding of all classes of stock. The cattle comprised mostly medium-weight bullocks, with a 'few pens of heavier cattle. Heifers were yarded in larger numbers than usual. There was also a fair yarding of vealers. Competition for all cattle was good at last week’s rates. Sheep: There was a good demand for ewes, wethers and lambs, at last week’s rates; if anything, ewes showed a firming tendency. Prices ranged as follow: Cattle: Prime heavy bullocks, £S 2s 6d, £B, £7 17s, £7 16s, £7 15s, £7 .13s; medium bullocks, £6 17s 6d, £6 15s, £6 13s, £6 12s, £6 10s, £6 ss, £6 2s 6d, £o 18s; prime heavy cows and heifeis, £4 6s, £4 ss, £4, £3 14s, £3 10s, £3 Ss, £•-> ss, £3; boner cows, 13s, ss; runners, £2 15s, £2, £1 19s, £1 ISs, £1 17s, £1 15s; vealers, £1 ills, £1 10s, £1 Ss, £1 ss, 19s. _ Sheep.—Prime heavy wethers, losT < d, 15s 6d, 15s s cl, 14s 10(1, 14s Bd, 14s fid, 14s 3d, 14s; medium wethers, 13s 4d, 13s; light wethers, 11s 6d, 10s 3d; prime heavy ewes, 10s 3d, 10s, 9s 9d, 9s Gd, 9s Id, 9s; heavy lambs, 12s Sd, 12s 6d, 325, 11s 9d; lambs, 11s, 10s 9d, 10s 3d, 9s Cd; light lambs, 9s, 8s 6d.