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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21051, 1 March 1940, Page 12

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CLEARING SALE I DEMAND AT TE ROBE Unusually keen Interest was shown In a ' clearing sale conducted by Messrs Newton King Limited on behalf ol' Mr Charles Wuolstun, Te Kore, Te Awaniutu, who had disposed or his property. A largo bench or buyers Ironi a wide area was in attendance with the result that a very satifactory sale resulted. Top price or the day was £l4 10s, I other salt's being £ll, £ 1 J 10s, £l3 5s and! £ll. The whole herd or 04 cows, in- I eluding the lew unsound cows, averaged I £tu ITS Od. The rising two-year Jersey heiTers realised £7 is, the top eleven calves from the herd bringing £3 17s and the smaller cattle selling to £2 Is. The line or two and Tour-tooth wethers realised 22$ 7d, with an offering or porker and store pigs selling linn at late rates. The cattle were distributed to Pukekohe, Cambridge, Hamilton, Otorohanga and Te Awamutu. MATAMATA SALE The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd., report:—A rull yarding or sueep, fully tne advertised entry, came forward to Matamaia stock sale on Wednesday. lat lambs were keenly sought by export buyers, wnile Tat ewe and wether mutton showed no alteration on iate linn rates. store lambs were In keen demand and late advanced rates fully maintained, southdown rams showed no variation in value. An average yarding or cattle, including a good penning ot cow and heifer beel. A llrm demand existed Tor quality beef with second quality and Loner cows showing an improvement on late rates, no doubt due to keen bidding Trom the exporters. A ran offering or potter bulls was again keenly competed Tor. There was a very heavy yarding or all classes or pigs. competition for baconers and heavy porkers was very keen and values were fully up to recent late rates. Light porkers and stores and weaners were more difficult to quit. quotations:— sdieep.—Prime lat lambs 27s to 225 3d, medium 23s 2d to 255, lighter ms od to 225, fat wethers 24s 0d lo 20s, lighter 2ls to 23s 3d, prime maiden ewes 18s od to 20s, heavy lat ewes Iss Od to 10s id, medium 12s Od to 13s 7d, killable 2s 0d to 10s Set, medium store ewe lambs 10s 7s to 17s 2d, forward-conditioned shorn wether lambs 15s od te 17s 7d, forward - condHloned woolly blatx-race lambs 13s 2d to 15s lOd, store lambs its Od to 12s 7d, cull lambs 8s Od to 10s Id, sound-mouth local ewes 12s 5d to 14s 6d, store local ewes 7s 6d to lus 6d, southdown ranis 4 to 5$ gns. Cattle.—Prime Tat cows and heifers £7 10s to £8 105, lighter rat cows and heifers £5 155 to £7 3s. heavy rat Jersey cows £6 5s to £0 135, killable Jerseycows £5 5s to £5 145, heavy boner cows £4 8s to £4 17s. medium £3 11 s to £4 2s, lighter £2 103 to £3 35, inferior 23s to 38s, killable cows and calves £5 16s to £5 10s; heavy potter bulls £9 to £lO 12s 6d, medium £7 15s to £8 12s 6d, lighter £4 10s to £6 2s 6d, good heifer calves £3, smaller £2 2s Gd. medium quality Jersey heifers to £O. Pigs.—Heavy choppers £i 55 to £4 13s, others £2 11s to £3 195, prime topweight baconers £4 6s to £4 95, heavy baconers £4 to £i 4s, medium baconers £3 14s to £3 18s, light baconers £3 8s to £3 12s. buttermilk pigs and heavy porkers £> l»»* to ss. medium porker-; £2 Gs to £2 12s, light 38s to £j 3s, large stores 32s to 3As Od. others 26s Gd to 3()3. Slips 16s Gd lo 23s Gd, weaners 8s to 14.

ADDINGTON MARKETS HEAVY ?heup ENTRY The heaMo.t -h-<- r entry nr the year carne forward it Hie Add ins-inn market, the total appmAimating 3o."", t he«e, about 25,000 were in ihe ? tore oens. e\*p< numbering about l Good sheep, both fine and strong wool-, sold at up to e W e fair rates. -t two moth- -old a’ ~ => nume'oiji other pen- of coar.-e wool..: *rn*» Chatham- and elsewhere a* g) 355. The best or the three-quarter->red iocAl rwo-tooth ewes sold at 375,

and sound-mouthed three-quarter-breds to 2Gs. Corriedale-Romney cross four-yea*-sold at up to 27s 4d. Fair-conditioned local haliureiLs sold steadily at sunstantially lower prices, but the nig proportion of aged ewes made low prices. However, they met a market. Lat lambs scarcely sold so well as a week ago, butchers keeping their prices down by up to a shilling a head. best brought from 27s to 2Us, with a few tops to 335. lat sheep comprised about 700 u head. They maintained recent rates until the final stages, when values slipped back rather pronouncedly, with heavy passings. Rest wethers made lrom 27 s to 3us, with tops lo 345. Rest ewes made I ruin 2ls to 2 is, with tops to 2-os. Export buyers paid up to los for light ewes, 1 lie market comprising a big showing of this class. Fat cattle were fewer than last week and there was a slight recovery lor good steers, other sorts being um-banged. Rest steers sold at from £lO to £l7 lus, with a few tops to £l9. Light sorts were down to £3 10s. Cows and heirers contained little of quality and best sold at ; below £ll. Pigs of the porker section receded by about 2s a bead. They sold at from 41s Gd to 57s 6d, the average price being ojd to 7id per lb. Baconers improved by 2s a bead. Prices were from 59s Gd to £4 19s 6d, the average price per lb being 6sd to 7cL