16,000 EWES

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20715, 27 January 1939, Page 8

16,000 EWES

MORRINSVILLE SALE VALUKB FOR SHEEP TOTAL CLEARANCE EFFECTED (Times Special Reporter) MORRINSVILLE. Friday Morrinsville .upheld its reputation as one of the principal store sheep centres in the North Island to-day j when at the weekly stock sale over 16,000 breeding ewes were yarded. The bulk of these were ex-Tokomaru Bay but large consignments were also j offered from Ashhurst and Levin. As \ with last week the market for good j quality sheep was very firm but a , slacker tone prevailed for older ewes : lacking condition. The best of a line of two-tooth ex Levin ewes made 26s J lOd while maiden ewes from the same source sold from 24s 3d. Four and : six-tooth ewes from the East Coast i brought a keen inquiry from a large I bench of Waikato and Auckland buy- j ers. The best of these were knocked i down at 25s lOd while similar sheep from southern stations cleared at 22s Bd. For four and five-year ewes from Tokomaru Bay 21s 2d was paid, while four-year Levin ewes made t9s Bd. A total clearance was effected over the early sales. There was a large yarding of store and cull lambs and prices for these | were on a par with latest quotations, best stores making to 16s, while ; lighter lambs were traded from 9s to 11s. An average yarding of fat sheep sold i on a par with last week’s rates best ! wethers making to 19s and ranging ! from 16s 9d. Fat ewes sold from 6s j 9d to 9s 6d and lambs from 17s to 19s 3d.