DROP AT WESTFIELD.
SLACKENING IN DEMAND. ■OX iBEEiF DOWN is. (Special to Times.) AUCKLAND, Wednesday. A drop in the rates for ox beef is reported by Messrs iDalgety and Company, -Limited, referring to the weekly stock sale at Westfield to-day. The company yarded 15'5 head of beef, comprising 32 steers and 123 cowes and heifers against 195 head last week. The -quality of the ox beef was fully up to standard but the demand was not so keen as last week and the company’s quotations were easier by Is per 1001 b. There was a full average yarding of cow and heifer beef which sold at good 'Competition at about last week’s levels. Extra choice ox made to 23s per 1001 b; choice and prime,'2os to 2'2s; just killable, 16s to 19s; prime young cow and heifer beef, 19s lo 235; just killable, l'2s to 18s.
Heavy prime steers ranged in price from £-8 10s to £8 15s; lighter prime, £7 5s lo £8 7s Gd; light prime, £6 to £7 2s Gd; small and unfinished, £4 2s Gd to £'s 16s; extra heavy prime young cows and heifers, £6 to £G 10s; heavy prime cows and heifers, £'s to £5 17s Gd; lighter prime, £3 10s to £4 17s Gd; other killable cows, £1 10s to £3 7s Gd. Calves, runners, £2 5s to £3 3s; heavy vealers, £2 2s to £2 8s; medium, £1 10s to £1 19s; bobby calves, 3s to ss.
BEEF PRICES EASIER. WESTFIELD SALE. A. BUCKLAND AND SON’S REPORT. (Special lo Times.) A UG KLA N D, We dncsdav. Messrs Alfred B-uckland and Son, Lid., report that at their weekly Westfield fat stock market, held to-day, they yarded 323 head of beef, comprising 138 slccrs and 185 cows and heifers, as against 319 head last week. The quality was good, but competition was not as keen aiul values were easier than liic previous week. Extra choice ox made lo 23s per 1001 b; choice and prime,. 20s lo -2s; just killable, IGs to 18s: prime young cow and heifer beef, 20s Lo 225; Just killable, 12s lo 17s.
Heavy prime steers ranged in price from £lO to £lO 17s (hi; lighter prime, £8 5s to £9; llglil prime. £fi 10s lo £7 10s; small and unfinished. £4 10s to £5 iss; extra heavy prime young cows and heifers, £5 10s to £fi 17s Gd; heavy prime cows and heifers, £i 108 to £5; lighter prime, £3 10s to £4; other killable cows, £2 to £3,
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Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19554, 17 April 1935, Page 7
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421DROP AT WESTFIELD. Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19554, 17 April 1935, Page 7
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