STOCK MARKET

Wairarapa Daily Times, 1 July 1933, Page 2

STOCK MARKET

FEILDINQ I’SALE. 1 ’SALE. FBILDING, Friday. Last Friday’s extraordinary prices for fat and store Sheep were not maintained to-day, when rates for fats dropped fully 2s 6d to 3s a head, and the stores market .suddenly went blank. The previous week’s boom had the effect of attracting ia huge yarding of 15,000 head of fats and stores. The highest price for single fat lambs, 275, was equal to last week, but generally only a few lines went over 225. These rates were about equal to those of a fortnight ago. Fat ewes reached 12s (last Friday, 17s), and wetheTS reached 15s 6d (a slight drop). To-day’s prices are more in accordance with real market values. The store pens were choked with breeding ewes, and after a few pens were sold at appreciably reduced rates, '■‘the bottom fell out of the sale, and many pens w:ere passed.—(P.A.) • CARTERTON SALE. Messrs Wright, 'Stephenson and Co., Ltd., report: —We held our weekly sale at Carterton yesterday, when we offered •a small yarding of all classes of stock to a good attendance of local farmers. Bidding was brisk throughout, and a 'total clearance was effected under the hammer at the following prices:—Sheep. —Fat lambs, to 15s 6d. 'Cattle. —Springing heifers, £4 5s to £4 15s; heifers, just calved, at £4 to £4 15s; forward cows, 235, 255, 27s 6d, 30s, 32<s 6d to -355; store cows, 12s, 13s, 15s, 17s to 18s. Pigs.—Weaners (small), 4s to 4s 6d; weaners, Bs, 8s 6d, 9s, 9s 6d, I’o's to 12s; slips, l'2s to 16s 6d.