BURNSIDE STOCK SALE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 156, 27 March 1919, Page 8

BURNSIDE STOCK SALE

...'-.. By TelograDh-Press Association.. Dunedin, March 26. ■'-'.''•At Burnside 229 fat cattle were penned. the majority being good prime steers and heifers. There.were very few pens of extra hoaVy. Competition- was keen, ■prices being on. a par with last week's ! ' rates. Extra -prime bullocks', ,£23; prime, .■£l3' to'£2ir medium', .£lO "10s. to ~£lß 1 55.; light, .CIS to .CIS; prime cows arid ■ heifers, .£l3- to «El 5 10s.; medium, ,£lO -to; .£l2; inferior and. light, £7 to £9 ss. There were IG-11 sheep peuned, the proportion of prime being small, freezing buyers, operated cautiously, butchors nb- ■ sprbing the bulk of the yarding. Prime -brought late rates, but unfinished -dev clined in sympathy with store markets "' in other'- centres. Extra prime wethers, '525.-"9 d.; prinie, 395. to 425. 6d.; medium, ■3iS: to " 3Ss.; light and : unfinished. 225. to 30s.';. prime ewes, 335. to 355. Gd.; mc- ■'• ilium', , -275. to 80s.; light nnd unfinished, ; 20-3.' to 25.5. The lambs penned numbered i9Go,'" the .quality being very mixed. • Exp.ort buyers were not kneen to operate except at reduced limits, and prices.receded about 2s. per head. Prime. 255. to 28s. 6d.; medium, 21s. Gd. t0,245.; light and unfinished, 16s. to 19,?. Of pigs there was a'fair entry of fats and a small yarding of stores. A good salo was met ' with' at prices a good deal ahead of last week's rates.