ADDINGTON MARKET Two-Tooths £6 Is, Ewe Lambs 78s

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30975, 3 February 1966, Page 10

ADDINGTON MARKET Two-Tooths £6 Is, Ewe Lambs 78s

All classes of store sheep again sold well at Addington yesterday. The yarding rose bv 600 head on last week’s to a total of 21,693.

In windy and dusty conditions, large galleries followed the adult sheep and store lamb markets, and values were either firm, or in the case of ewe lambs and the best two-tooths, showed an improvement.

The sale was notable for the top prices paid. The best of the two-tooths realised £6 Is, top-quality four-year-old ewes sold to £4 6s, and ewe lambs, at 78s for the top pen, reached their highest point of the season.

The yarding comprised 5392 wether lambs, compared with 5806 last week; 1821 ewe lambs (2519 last week), 3513 two-tooth ewes (1579), and 10,842 older ewes (11,077). Only 125 wethers were yarded, compared with 107 In the previous sale. ■ Store Lambs The store lamb yarding was more than 1100 down on last week, the main decrease being in ewe lambs. A large gallery again followed the sale, and some values firmed on those ° Top-quality wether lambs sold up to recent rates. The smaller lambs, which were yarded in fairly large numbers, appeared to appreciate up to 2s a head. The ewe lamb entry was rather mixed in quality, although the top price—B7s for a pen of Romneys—was the highest paid at Addington this season. Over all. the ewe lambs firmed In value by Is to 2s a head.

Romney lambs are beginning to dwindle in numbers, although

there were good drafts from Kekerengu and Kaikoura yesterday, and an odd line from Banks Peninsula. Where they carried size and good growth of wool, they were eagerly sought. Best Romney wether lambs sold to 655, good from 51s to 56s 6d. and others down to 48s. The best of the fine-wool wether lambs sold to 54s for a pen of Corriedales, good sold from 47s to 51s, and medium from 43s to 465.

Best Romney ewe lambs sold to 78s, and good from 62s to 675: best fine-wool ewe lambs sold to 65s fid. good from 59s to 635, and medium 54s to 58s.

Only 400 Down cross lambs were yarded and these sold consistently at 48s fid to 535, with a few tailenders down to 40s.

Leading sales quoted by stock firms were:— Wether lambs: H. M, Good (Kekerengu), 107 halfbreds at 49 s to 54s fid: Fairweather and Cresswell (Kaikoura), 543 Romney from 44s to 565; P. W. Moore (Kekerengu), 150 Romneys at 48s 6d to 54s 6d; R. G. Deans (Homebush), 699 Romneys at 47s to 525: J. Watson (Waimangaroa), 160 Romneys at

47s to 53s fid; Gudex Brothers, Ltd. (Whiterock). 207 halfbred at 48s to 495: estate L. D. Stanbury (Wainui), 145 Romneys at 56s fid to 655; T. R. D. Anderson (Okuku), 486 halfbreds at 47s fid to 53s fid: Glens of Tekoa Estate (Culverden). 368 halfbreds at 47s fid to 565; J. Davies (Kaikoura), 332 Romney Corriedales at 42s fid to 49s fid; G. S. King (Kaikoura). 238 halfbreds at 46s to 50s fid; estate E. W. Gray (Kaituna). 234 Romneys at 46s fid to 535; C. H. Upham (Hundalee), 334 Corriedales at 47s fid to 52s fid; C. J. King (Governors Bay), 103 mixed sex Romneys at 52s fid to 60s fid: 103 Down cross at 535; G. L. and R. G. Russell (Omihi), 497 Romneys at 53s 6d; to 625: J. T. Denton and Son (Southbrige). 89 Corriedales at 535.

Ewe lambs: R. Thompson. (Yaldhurst), 199. Romneys at 77s to 87s; F. Merrin (East Eyreton), 80 first cross halfbreds at 635; C. H. Suckling (Rangiora), 197 Corriedales at 58s to 58s fid; J. Waters (Fairlie), 200 Romneys at 54s fid to 65s fid: O. P. Bayley (Birdlings Flat). 213 shorn halfbreds at-49s to 51s: C. H. Upham (Hundalee), 160 Corriedales at 50s 6d to 635; N. A Woods (Greenpark). 65 Border Leicester Romneys at 735: M. R. Gilmore (Hawarden), 125 shorn Romneys at 58s. Two-tooth Ewes Some large lines of goodquality sheep came forward in the two-tooth ewe market, and they met a very good sale. The market opened on a quiet note, but quickly picked up as the sale progressed. Bidding was brisk on the wellgrown two-tooths showing evenness and quality, but the market overall -'for the average class of sheep was easier by Is

to 2s a head. Nevertheless, it was a very good sale for vendors.

Une-wool two-tooths were forward in larger numbers, and for the first time this season, the ffi a head mark was exceeded. Top price was £6 Is for the tops of a big line of wellgrown. well-woolled Corriedales from the Scargill and Motunau Recreation Reserve. All told, nine pens of fine-wool two tooths exceeded £5 a head.

Romneys accounted tor only 18 of the 46 pens of two-tooths offered. They met a good sale; but did not attract the buoyant demand associated with the Corriedales. • Nevertheless, they sold up to £5 9s, with seven sales at £5 a head or more. Two-tooth values were:

Best Romneys, £5 to £5 9s. with good at 80s to 965; befit Corriedales, £5 to £6 Is, with good.at 85s to 955, and small fine-wool two-tooths down to 645. Leading sales of two-tooths quoted by stock firms were:— A. Zuppicich (Btoadfield),'3ofi Corriedales at £5 to £5 8s; Scar-gill-Motunau Recreation Reserve, 335 Corriedales 'at £5 7s to £6 Is, with 130 at the top price; R. G. and G. L. Russell (Omihi), 193 Romneys at £5 to £5 ss; J. F. Smith (Broadfield), 75 Corriedales at £5; P. C. and J. W. Murray (Wharenui), 210 Romneys at 90s to 945; R. S. Harrison (Domett), 210 Romneys at £5 Is to £5 9s; A. L. Shipley (Harewood), 260 Corriedales at 86s to £5 2s; F. H. Shipley (Harewood), 250 Corriedales at 80s 6d to 995; Balnabreich Farm, Ltd. (Culverden), 84 Ccrriedales at 955. Older Ewes Older ewes were yarded in large numbers, and with a large gallery of buyers they met a good sa<!e. The yarding this week included a larger proportion of ewes which had little to recommend them; they were considered more suitable for the freezing trade. The yarding included several tines of annual draft ewes from Banks Peninsula and North Canterbury, and these sold at a premium. Top price for fine-wool ewes was 86s for a line of 409 early shorn four-year-old Corriedales from A. T. Black, Waiau. In the Romney section, 74s 6d was paid for the top pen of the annual draft of four and five-year-olds from Purau Station.

One-year ewes comprised the bulk of the offering and they all met a sound sale at values fully firm on last week. Any of this class of ewe showing a row of teeth met a ready sale, and where they were in robust condition and carrying some growth of wool, prices round the 50s mark were not uncommon. Values were:

Best four and five-year-oild Romney ewes, 63s to 74s 6d, with the lighter-framed sorts down to 60s; best one-year Romney ewes to 595, with average from 44s to 495, and freezing ewes down to 375. Best annual draft Corriedale ewes sold from 54s to 625, with one sale of four-year-olds at 86s; average fine-wool one-year ewes 44s to 535, and freezing types down to 355.

Two pens of mixed age Corriedale ewes sold from 57s 6d to 695.

Only two pens of wethers were yarded. These were aged halfbreds from the Kaikoura district and realised from 40. s to 47s fid.

Leading sales of older ewes, quoted for stock firms, were:— J. C. Elworthy (Richmond Hill). 314 five-year-old Romneys at 60s to 655; Purau Station (Purau), 450 four and five-year-old Romneys at 59s to 74s 6d; Mrs M. A. W. Jamieson (Kaituna). 133 five-year-old Romneys at 60s; estate E. W. Gray (Kaituna), 333 one-year Romneys at 46s fid to 535; A. T. Mother ell (Loburn), 95 one-shear Corriedales at 565; Clarence Reserve, Ltd. (Kaikoura), 551 Romney cross four and five-year-olds at 47s to 635; A. T. Stone (Hororata), 119 halfbreds at fils: O. and C. H Gray (Brookside, Parnasisus), 358 five-year-old Corriedales at 54s 6d; T. H. Stone (Hororata), 81 five-year-old halfbreds at 625: T. W. Bamford (Hurunul), 195 five-year-old Cor-

riedales at 525: R. J. Hodgin (Wackari), 75 mixed aged Corriedales at 02s: A. J. Black (Culverden), 79 five-year-old Corriedales at 60s; A. T. Black (Rockend, Waiau), 409 early sftorn .'our-year-old Corriedales at 80s; H. V. SnushaM (Quail Downs), 121 four-year-old early shorn lomneys at 62s to 725; Faulkner Brothers (Cora Lyn, Kowai Bush), 210 four-year-old halfbreds at 68s 6d: P. Brown (Stroma, Waiau). 67 five-year-old Corriedales at 655; O. J. Dwyer (Balmoral), 52 five-year-old Corriedales at 545.