ADDINGTON MARKET Older Ewes Again In Strong Demand

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31005, 10 March 1966, Page 23

ADDINGTON MARKET Older Ewes Again In Strong Demand

Adult ewes continued to meet a very sound sale at the Addington store sheep market yesterday. A large gallery of buyers competed keenly for any type of ewe capable of a year’s production or more.

Values were considered fully firm on last week, but in the Romney ewe section, there were some sales at higher values, where quality was comparable.

Two-tooth met am erratic sale, and quality—apart from the top sheep—was mixed. The best quality two-tooths appeared to be 5s or so cheaper than last sale, and in some cases it was a great deal more.

Medium - quality Romneys were generally firm, but finewoolled two-tooths were generally back on last sale, although quality here was very plain. Store lambs were yarded in much larger numbers, and values, until mid-way through the sale, were fully 2s up on last week. By the close of the sale, they were firm. The yarding totalled 18,891 head compared with 19,270 last sale. It was made up of 3151 ewe lambs (1471 last week), 4820 wether lambs (3548), 3249 two-tooth (4358), 7529 adult ewes (9893), and 117 wethers (none). Store Lambs The store lamb sale started off on a strong note, with values fully 2s a head up on last week, but half way through the sale, values began to slacken, and by the end, were about firm on last week’s closing rates.

Although a good 20 per cent larger than last week, the entry was mainly of average quality, with only a small proportion of Romneys. The yarding included a line of 600 Merino wether lambs, and these met a good sale for Addington, fetching from 42s to 50s.

The best of the fine-woolled wether lambs sold to 57s 6d, with medium from 45s to 48s 6d, and small down to 355. The best of the shorn fine-woolled lambs sold to 54s 6d.

Romney wether lambs sold mainly from 52s to 56s 6d for medium to good, with the majority of the shorn Romneys selling from 51s to 56s 6d. The best of the fine-woolled ewe lambs so*ld to 665, while Romney ewe lambs reached a peak of 87s for the second time this season. The best of them sold from 67s to 74s 6d with one sale at 87s, and medium from 58s to 655.

Leading sales of lambs quoted by stock firms were: Ewe lambs: G. P. DampierCrossley (Rotherham) 58 shorn

Corriedales at 665: Lynton Downs, Ltd. (Kaikoura) 132 Romneys at 56s 6d to 655, A. E. Williams (Kaiapoi) 120 shorn Romneys at 51s to 67s 6d: Fahey Bros. (West Coast) 52 Romney cross at 58s, W. H. Deans (Auchenflower, Homebush) 104 Border Leicester-Romneys at 74s 6d; C. A. Jenkins (Hororata) 124 Romney cross at 70s; H. J. Mclntosh (Kaiapoi) 80 Romneys at 87s. Wether lambs: E. S. Johnstone (Sheffield), 361 halfbreds at 48s to 57s 6d; J. O. Arres (Waikari), 165 Romneys at 51s to 55s 6d, Lynton Downs, Ltd. (Kaikoura), 151 Romneys at 52s to 565, A. E. Williams (Kaiapoi), 31 shorn Romneys at 56s 6d, Glens of Tekoa Estate (Culverden), 270 halfbreds at 50s to 55s 6d; C. F. Manson (Killinchy), 24 shorn Romneys at 56s 6d: H. H. Deans (Auchenflower, Homebush), 44 Romneys at 555, 14 Down cross at 575; J. R. B. Menzies (Mt. Virginia), 812 halfbreds at 44s 6d to 535; Fahey Bros. (West Coast), 103 Romney cross at 53s to 555; P. L. Winter (Oxford), 61 short Romneys at 56s 6d; F. W. Broughan (Kaikoura), 270 halfbreds from 38s to 54s 6d; R. Swarbrick (Okuku), 109 shorn halfbreds from 46s to 54s 6d. Two-Tooths Quality in the two-tooth ewe section was fairly mixed, and the sale itself, followed an irregular pattern. Buying strength, especially in the early stages was weak, the gallery following the sale being one of the smallest of the season. There were times when values were firm on those of last week, but the fine-woolled two-tooths were generally back 5s a head, and in some cases more. Romney two-tooths sold fairly consistently, but the top pens were not up to last week’s values by upwards of 5s a head. Top price for Romneys was £5 10s for the best of a Hine from M. G. Robinson (Waiau). Over the whole sale only 16 pens of Romneys realised £5 or better. Best Romneys sold from £5 Is to the top price, average to good, 91s to 99 s, and others down to 87s. The best of the fine-woolled two-tooths sold to £5 13s 6d for a pen of 76 halfbreds from R. G. Douglas, Glenesk, Scar gill, but this sale was an exception, for only two pens made £5 or better. Best fine-wooilled two-tooth ewes sold from 94s 6d to £5 Is, with one sale at £5 13s 6d; average to good sold from 86s to 925, with others down to 595. Leading sales of two-tooth ewes, quoted by stock firms, were: F. Brice (Culverden), 58 Romneys at £5 4s; G. Dampier-Cross-ley (Rotherham), 75 Corriedales at 87s; C. W. Anderson (Rotherham), 14 Romneys at £5 9s; R. G. Douglas (Glenesk), 96 Corriedales at £4 17s to £5 13s 6d; Price partnership ('Poranui), 141 Romney cross at £4 15s to £5 2s; B. T. Inks'on (Omiihi), 37 Corriedales at 99s 6d; A. H. Croft (Omiihi), 134 halfbreds at 75s 6d to 80s; A. E. Huntz (Banbury Hills, Wakefield), 396 Romneys

at £5 to £5 ss; J. R. Wilson (Hamner), 14* Romneys at £5 4s to £5 8s; J. W. Ensor (Garrymere), 63 Corriedales at £5 la; G. W. Ryder (Waiau), 75 Romneys at 965; G. S. Long (Hanin er). 250 Romneys at 87s to £5 Is: M. G. Robinson (Waiau), 188 Romneys at 96s to £5 10s: G. A. N. Frizzell iKirwee), 207 sborn Romney cross at 76s to 87s: W. M. Macready (Rakaia Gorge), 120 halfbreds at 94s 6d to 965. Adult Ewes A large gallery again followed the adult ewe sale, and values were firm on last week, although the market did not have quite the same buoyancy. There were not as many representative lines of ewes forward this week. Four and five year-old drafts were, in fact, scarce. With tupping time approaching, al! ewes met a ready sale, as there appears to be still a large number of farmers who have yet to complete their purchases of flock replacements. The Romneys on offer met a brisk sale, anything with a row of teeth attracting keen competition. Top price was 86s for the best of a line of four and five-year-oldis from the Price Partnership, Poranui, Best Romney ewes sold from 65s to 71s, with odd sates to 795: good sound-mouthed ewes sold from 59s to 635, with other Romney ewes down to 50s. Four and five-year-old finewoolled ewes were in short supply, and top price was 80s for 300 early-shorn four-year-old halfbreds from W. M. Macready. Rakaia Gorge. These were one of the very few lots of fine-woolled flour-year-olds on offer. Practically all of the four and fiive-year-old fine-wooiled ewes sold from 72s to the top price. The best of the soundmouthed ewes sold from 60s to 645., medium from 54s to 58s and ewes with poor mouths down to 475. Leading sales of ewes quoted by stock firms were:— C. A. Jenkins (Valehead, Hororata), 150 late-shorn Corriedales at 56s to 595: P. B. B. Nixon (Rakanui, Kaikoura), 390 fiive-year-old Romneys at 59s to 05s; estate A. Fairburn (Scargill), 405 Romney cross ewes at 45s 6d to 46s 6d: F. A. Field (Duvauohellle), 79 soundmouthed Romneys at *l®; J. H Mathias ('Port Levy), 91 Romneys at 63s 6d: Roillesiby Station (Fairiiie), 261 halfbreds from 36s to 61s; G. S. Long (Hanmer), 240 five-year-old Romneys at 65s to 695; W. M. Macready (Craigford, Rakaia Gorge), 470 four and five-year-old halfbreds at 75s to 80s: A. F. ,Croft (Ornihi), 98 six-tooth halfbreds at 70s, 53 four-year-old haifbreds at 67®, 77 four-tooth haifbreds at 745; G. Harold Parsons and Son® (Benmore, Seddon), 60 mixed aged halfbreds at 765; R. G. Douglas (ScargiiM), 68 five-year-old Corriedales at 60s, 69 at 61s 6d; Price Partnership (iPoranuii), 230 four and five-year-old Romneys at 76s to 80s: K. M. Wells (Oxford), 137 five-year-old Romneys at 625., D J Thomson (Oxford), 145 fiveyear olds at 675; Mendlip Hills. Station (Parnassus), 869 annual draft Corriedates at 47s to 55sJ. W. Cottier (Waiau), 288 five-year-old halfbreds at 63s 6d to 64is; estate A. Harper (Lees Valley), 200 annual draft halfbred® at 70s 6d to 725; E J Alien and Son (Bullock Hill), 561 annual draft Romneys at 45s to 475; J. W. Ensor (Okuku), 101 four-year-old Corriedales at 745, 57 five-year-olds at 625, 27 mixed aged at 7«s; J. R. Wilson (Hanmer), 139 four and five-year-old Romneys at 70s, K. W. Brougham (Kaikoura), 147 four and five-year-old halfbreds at 50s 6d to 54s 6d.

Wethers: J. A. Paton and Company (Oaro), 70 two-tooth halfbreds at 721 s 6d, 47 mixed aged at 60s 6d.