FEILDING STOCK MARKET

Chronicle (Levin), 10 January 1948, Page 7

FEILDING STOCK MARKET

GOOD SALE FOR SIORE LAMBS For the opening live stoek sale of the new year at Feilding yesterday buyers had a selection of some 36,000 s'tore lapibs' to pick.over and despite the prevailing dry weather conditions the busxuesa was conducted on a fairly strong tone. ' Actuaiiy the' values operating had a close relationship to present fat tamb schedules and vendors niust have been well satislied with the realiaation.-,. The lambs were in excellent order and the quality generally -was very good. There was practieally no apprecialxie change in fat sheep pricea and as far as the other sections were concerned, business was very quiet. Fat Sheep The entry of fat sheep numlxered upproximately 300- which, curiousiy cnough, correspondexl with the yarding at the lirst sale of 1947. Priees compared with the last sale of the old year, neld on December 19, sh'owed no niaiked variation, excepting in the case or wether mutton which was inclined to be easier. The realisations were: — -Down cross 2-tlis, 3 at 29s lOd, 7 at 35s 10d, 9 it 29s 7d, 9 at 32s 4d, • 5 at 31s 7d, (4 at 27s 7d, 4 at 33s 7d, 12 at 33s ld, 5 at 34s lOd; wethers, 3 at 33s lOd, 23 at 38s 4d, 5 at 34s lOd, 2 at 37s lOd, 10 at 36s 4d, 4 at 33s 4d, 16 at 37s 7d, ' 34 at 34s lOd, 12 at 33s 7d, 19 at 35s •ld; lambs, 12 at 25s 4d, oue at 25s, one at 32s 6d, 30 at 34s lOd, 6 at 38s lOd; ewes, 6 at 19s 4d, 20 at 2ls lOd; Southdown ewes, 18 at 24s 7d. Store Sheep Store lambs oceupied nlost of ttie pens in the store slieep secti'on where the olfering totalled approximately 10,000 head. Vendors drafted many good cjuality liiies; ih fact,' the bulk of Ihe oft'ering repres'ented good fresh

lambs ready for fatteners and the very iarge attendance manifested a lceen interest in the selling. Although prices were not perhaps as high as conditionsat the end of the year sug'gested, they were nevertheless good aird generally ;he view was that it was a very good sale. For instance .the tops of the Awawaro lambs from the Apiti eountry realised 20s 10d- compared with 20s at the. same sale last year. M. Conway received 24s lOd yesterday for a line of wether lambs and his price last ye.u aas 24s 4d. There were instances ot lambs selling below their value but they were the exception rather than tlie rule. The best price for white faced wether lambs was obtained by R. Deroles, of Rangiwahia, whose olfering of .130 realised 30s 2d. They were foiward lambs in paiticularly good order. The realisations were: Wether lambs, 239 at 23s, 118 at 26s, 84 at 19s 8d, 147 at 24s 6d, .130 at 30s 2d, 14(L.at 22s ld. 83 at 21s 6d, 383 on account Awawaro at 19s Sd, 118 at 21s 6d,_ 524 011 account t'owan Bros. at 25s 3(1, 350 at 21s ld, 160 at 23s -and 22s lOd, 81 at 21s 4d, 168 at 22s tid, 140 at 25s 9d, 331 011 account Awawaro at 13s 9d and 15s, 200 at 20s 7d and 20s Od, 156 at 21s 3d, 346 at 21s 7d, 138 a't 22s ld, 97 at 22s 8d, 130 on account M. Conway at 24s lOd, 101 at 24s ld, 335 at 21s 8d, 171 011 account W. G. Romley at 23s, 327 at 23s, 125 at 19s, 200 at 18s Od and 18s 2d, 115 at 17s 6d, 250 )n account Awawaro at J8s 4d and 17s, 362 on account Awawaro at 20s lOd, 187. at 19s 6d, 130 at 26s 9d,"101 on account (i. J. Gerkc at 24s 7(1, 156 at 24s; Down cross lambs, 244 011 account A. A. llobsoli at' 20s, 320 at 23s 7d. 239 at 23s, 88 at 28s, 150 at 26s Od, 137 at 23s lOd. One pen of 286 2-th wethers realised 32s 8d. Fat Cattle The only olfering in the fat cattle lepartment was a heifer whicli was lisposed of for £10 15s. Station Cattle Very few statiou cattle came forward ihe pens being mostly eniptv and tlus .uarket was quite different from th&T for the same sale last year ivhen a large olfering was made 011 a very buovaut ■tone. The only saies yesterday were a pen of 31 3-yr A.A. steers at £13 and i7 empty heifers at £7 12s. Cows witn •alves at loot were not wanted. Store Cattle Good prices prevailed for boner cattle, the realisations being: Cows £2 8s, £4 17s Od, £6 10s, £6 16s, £7 15s, £7 17s 6(1, £8 2s Od, £8 7s, £8 12s 6u 0 £9 15s; empty heifer £4, bull £5 os, odd steers £5 17s to £9 8s.