COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16654, 20 November 1925, Page 9

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

WESTFIELD MARKETS. •DaJgetv and Co., Ltd., report as follows on the Westfield sale:—Beef: An exceptionally heavy yarding. Prices were again easier, all round, cows suffering the most. Extra choice ox made 41s, choice and prime 36s to 395, ordinary and plain 30s to 355, prime young cow and heifer beef 355, ordinary 28s to ;335, rough 22s to 275. Sheep: A good yarding, last week’s prices not being maintained. 1 Extra heavy woolly wethers, only one pen yarded, made 455, heavy prime 42s 6d, best shorn wethers 365, medium 345, best woolly ewes 38s to 395, best shorn 31s 6d, others 23s to 275. Calves: An average yarding, selling readily at. advanced prices. Runners made £4 9s to £5 ss, heavy vealers £3 5s to £4, medium £2 17s to £3 3s, light £2 io £2 9s, small 15s In 28s, fresh dropped 3s to 7s. Pigs: An average yarding, prices being easier. Choppers made £3 J 5s to £5 ss, heavy to medium baconers £4 7s to £5 Is, light baconers and heavy porkers £ 1 ‘2s to £4 6s medium and light porkers £2 18s to £3 7s. Lambs: A good yarding, prices again being easier. Heavy prime lambs made 325, medium 27s to 31s, light 20s to 255.

Alfred Buekland and Sons, Ltd., report:—At eur weekly Westfield fat stock market our beef pens contained 725 head, as against 507 last week, comprising 407 steers, 306 cows and heifers, and 12 bulls. The demand was less keen, and all classes were lower in value. In many cases there was a decline of 4s to 5s per 1001 b. Extra choice ox sold to 41s per 100, choice and prime ox 36s to 40s, ordinary and plain ox, 32s to 355; prime young cow and heifer beef 35s to 40s, ordinary cow beef 30s to 345, rough beef 20s to 265. Extra heavy prime steers ranged in price from £l7 to £l7 17s 6d, heavy prime steers £ls ■los to £l6 17s 6d, lighter prime steers £l4 to £ls 7s 6d, light prime steers £ll to £l3 15s, unfinished and small £7 10s to £lO 15s, extra heavy prime young cows and heifers £ll to £l3 ss, heavy prime young cows and heifers £9 10s to £lO 15s, lighter £7 to £9 ss, other killable cows £4 10s to £6 15s, rough and old cows £2 10s to £4 ss, bulls £5 to £lO ss. 14 choice quality steers from Mr 11. E. Reid, Waerenga, averaged £l6 16s 3d; 32 from Mr Wm. Vosper, Dingley Dell, Cambridge, averaged £l6 os Bd. There was again a full entry of sheep which met with a steady sale throughout, but generally values were' easier. Extra heavy prime wethers made 38s Cd io 40s, the latter price for a pen of extra prime Shropshire wethers from Mr Thomas Coates, Orakci; heavy prime wethers 36s 6d to 38s 3d, lighter prime wethers 34s to 36s 3d, light fat. and unfinished wethers 30s, to 33s 9d, heavy prime younff ewes 30s to 33s Gd, heavy fat ewes 27s Gd to 29s 9d, other fat ewes 25s to 27s (1561 sheep penned). Spring lambs to the number of 241 were penned and sold readily at about, last week’s rales. Heavy prime made 31s to 32s Gd for lambs from Mr. Eric Friedlander, I uakau; lighter prime 28s to 30s Gd, light prime 25s to 27s 94, small lambs, 18s to 245. Calves were penned in average numbers. Bidding was keen throughout for all good-quality vealcu’s,' rough calves being dull of sale. Runners made from £4 3s to £7, mel;um vealers £2 18s to £3 15s, light malers 35s to £2 17s, small.and fresh

’”oppcd 2s to 32s (225 sold). About medium yarding of fat pigs carneI’.n'ward. Values for baconers were ■ mlined to ease, but porkers mainlined late rates. Choppers made £3 :5s to £4 15s, light £2 to £3, heavy 5-iconers £4 11s to £4 19s, light and mdium £4 to £4 9s, heavy porkers £3 5s to £3 17s, light and medium, ’2 : 5s to £3 2s, small porkers £2 to :? ! 2s, unfinished 38s to £2 6s, store ■vs up to £2 6s for best, smaller 9 fis to 375, prices for weaners were ■ >Yver, good up to £1 ts, smaller 14s i9s, weedy 11s to 13s (494 sold).

The New Zealand Loan and McrcanAgency Company, ltd., reports:— Westfield fat stock market, beef i m penned in large numbers, values -un being easier by 2s to 3s per onib. Cow and heifer beef was Tooted most, values for these being •inch lower. Extra choice ox sold to is per 1001 b, choice prime ox 36s o 40 s,'. ordinary and plain ox 29s to 555, prime young cow and heifer beef 32s to 355, ordinary cow beef 26s to Us, rough beef’22s to 255. ,No extra •eavy prime steers were penned; r-avy prime steers £ls 15s to £l7 t. lighter prime steers £,13 17s Gd to Els 10s, light prime steers £l2 to £l3 15s, unfinished and small £lO 10s to r l! 15s, extra heavy prime young ows and heifers £lO to £l2 10s, eavy prime young cows and heifers £8 5s to £9 Ids, lighter £7 to £B, 'igllt cows £5 10s to £6 15s, other •r ws £2 10s to £5 ss, bulls £3 to £7. -beep were yarded in more than averse numbers and were slightly easier n values.' Heavy prime wethers mdo 37s 3d to 39s 9d, medium prime ethers 35s 3d to 375, light prime vethers 33s to 355, small and unfinished wethers 29s to 32s 9d, heavy prime ewes 31s 3d to 335, medium prime ewes 29s to 31s. light prime ewes 26s Gd to 28s 9d, heavy prime

woolly wethers to 45s Gd, prime shorn hoggets 27s to 3.15. Spring lambs were penned in large numbers and were easier in values. Heavy prime made 29s 9d to 31s Gd, medium prime 28s to 29s Gd, light prime 24s Gd to 27s Gd, unfinished 15s to 225. Pigs were penned in less than average numbers, values again showing a decline on late quotations. Choppers sold from £4 7s to £5 2s 6d, heavy and medium baconers from £4 10s to £4 18s, light baconers and heavy porkers from £3 14s to £4 Bs, medium porkers and light porkers from £3 to £3 12s, small and unfinished porkers £2 to £2 12s. Store pigs were penned in average numbers, values being easier. Large stores £1 12s to £2, slips 25s to 30s, weaners 14s to 235. Calves were penned in less than average numbers, values improving on last week’s report. Runners made £4 10s to £7 2s Gd, heavy vealers £3 15s to £4 9s, medium £2 19s to £3 12s, light £2 5s to £2 18s, smaller £i 10s to £2 2s, smalt and fresh dropped 3s to 28s, rough calves 10s to 20s.