ADDINGTON MARKET

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 185, 1 May 1919, Page 8

ADDINGTON MARKET

By TeleeraDh-Presß Association.

Christchurch, April 30. ■At Addington market there was • a larger yarding of fat lambs, fat sheep, find fat pigs, rather smaller entry of store sheop, and very short yardings of fat and store cattle. Export buyers were operating freely in fat lambs and fat sheep, and kept these markets steady, and at the same time there was an advance in tho primer lines of fat sheep, for wMch butchers competed at above freezing .values. Pat cattlo- were also firini;r, and pigs of all classes were e.vsier. Dairy cattle and vealers sold well, but there was nothing'' in the store cattle pens to form quotations. , Store Sheep.—Four, six, and eight-tooth ewes, 10s.. to 225.; two-tooth wethers, 21s. 2d, to 21a. 7d.; good four and six-tootlv wethors, 225. Id. to 235.; f-thcra, 15s. 9d. to 195.; good six and right-tooth wethers, 20s. to 245. 4d.; ethers, Us. 9d. to 17s. 9d.; ewe lambs, 12s. lid. to JSs.i mixed-sex lambs, 10s. 7d. to 155.; vcrhei , lambs, 12s. to 14s. Fat Sheep.—Extra prime wethers, to 17s. 6d.; prime wethers, S3s. Gd. to 41s. | 3d.; medium wethers,- 29s.■ Gd. to 235.j lighter wethers, 225. lid. to 295.; eMra| prime ewes, 395. 9d.; prime ewes. 309. 6d. to at;. , ; medium ewes, Us. to 303.; lighter ewes, 17s. to 245. Gd.; prime lnmbs, 265. '6d. to 81s.; medium, 235. fid. to 265.; lighter, 17s. 9d. to 235. Fat Cattle—Extra prime stenrs, .£22 155.; prime steera, .£l6 to .£l9 10s.; ordinary steers, .Ell to .£ls 10s.; extra prime heifers, : prime ftdfers, JEI2 to £U 17s. Gd.; ordinary heifers, to dCll 10s.; prime cows, .£lO ss. to S:U 55.; ordinary cows,' JUS 15s.

Pigs-Choppers, M 10s. to",510 lOs.j baconers. £!> to £S 63. (i-ciual to 9d. per lb.); porkers, .£2 15s. to £i 10s, (etjual to lOd. per lb.); best stores, £2 as. to lfls.; medium, M 17s. fid. to J. 2; sn'aller, Us. 6d. to 355.; weaners, Bs. Gd. to 14b.