LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 23, 22 October 1942, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

WESTFIELD (By Telegraph.—Prose Association.) AUCKLAND, October 21. At the Westfield sale an average entry of ox beef sold steadily, the quality being first class. Quotations remain the same as last week.. Cows and heifers in average numbers also sold steadily, values remaining unchanged. Extra choice ox, £2/2/- 1001 b.; choice and prime, £l/19/to £2/1/-: secondary and plain, £l/15/to £l/17/-; extra prime young cow and heifer, £l/14/-- to £l/18/-; eholpe and prime, £l/10/- to £l/12/-; ordinary cow beef, £4/6/- to £l/8/- ’.extra heavy prime steers. £l6/15/- to £l7/1;>/-; heavy, .£l6 to £l6/110/-; lighter, £l4/10/- to £lo/10/-. light £l2/10/- to £l3/10/-: small and unfinished,. £lO to £l2; extra heavy prime young cpws.and heifers. £1- to £l3/10/-: heavy, £9/10/- to £lO/10/-; lighter, £7/10/- to £B/10/-; light, £o/10/t0 Sffi-ep : 0/ a' full entry sold freely. Wethers improved in price and ewes firmed on late rates. All quotations are pliorn. Extra heavy prime wethers, £l/14/- to £1 16/-; heavy, £l/12/- to £l/13/-; medium, £l/10/- to £l/11/6; light and prime, £1 8/-' to £l/9/6; plain and unfinished. 19/i to £l/5/-: extra heavy prime young and maiden ewes, £l/3/6 to £l/7/3; heavy prime ewes, 18/- to £1; lighter, 1 14/- to 16/-: plain aud aged, 10/6 to 12/6; others, 4/- to 8/6. Lambs: A full entry found a ready sale, late rates being fully maintained. Extra heavy prime lambs. £l/10/- to £l/16/3: heavy. £l/13/- to £l/14/-; medium, £1 10/(5 to £l/12/-: lighter, £l/8/- to £1 9/-: light, £1 to £l/6/6. Calves: There was a full yarding, bidding being steady for all prime runuera and vealers. Values were slightly easier, plain and unfinished calves being afleeted most. Runners, £0 to £lO/17/6; heavy vealers, £7 to £8; medium, £(> to £6 15/-; light; £5 to £5/15/-'; small. £l/5/to £4/16/-’. unfinished and bucketfed, £1 to £2; bobby and rough, 3/- to £l/1/-; bobby and rough, 3/- to £l/1/-. Pigs: An average . entry sold under steady demand, all classes selling equal to last week’s rates: Choppers. £l/5/- to £3/10/-; heavy bacouers, £4/9/- to £4 14/-: medium, £4/1/- to £4/4/-; U»ht£3/14/- to £3/19-; heavy porkers £3 14/- to £4; medium. £3/6/- to £3/10/-; light, £2/16/- to £3: small and unfinished, £2/10/- to £2/15/-; store, £2 5/- to £2/11/-; -slips. £l/15/- to £2/4/-; weaners, £1 to £l/16/-.

ADDINGTON

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.; CHRISTCHURCH, October 21. The high prices at last, week’s fat stock sale nt Addington, when entries were small, brought forward large supplies today and nil prices were lower.. Store sheep totalled 1700. mostly woolly ewes and lambs and a few pens of shipped shorn wethers. Best price for ewes and lambs was 17/1 all counted, and others made from 10/- to Kl/7. Pens of shipped well;ers in forward condition' made 28/C to 28/-; shorn two-tooth wethers, from 21/to 24/-; two-tooth, 21/-. Pens of woolly owe hoggets sold at 34/C and 33/-, an heavily woolled s-heep. The fat: sheep entry was 4500, against 4000 last week, mostly shorn sheep, which met with keener competition than woolly sheep, which, especially ewes, showed a decline of front 4/- to 5/- a head on last week’s record values. The highest price for woolly wethers was 49/4 and for ewes 40/-. Prices for shorn sheep, though very satisfactory, also showed a decline, but not to the same extent. A pen of shorn wethers made ' 10/L with an average price of about 35/-. Ewes sold up to 39/-, with most, prices round about. 25/-. The fat cattle entry was 563. against 2(,2 last week. The high values last week wore reflected by a sharp easing ranging from 30/- to 40/- a head. The sale was nevertheless a sound one. and concluded in. a firm tone. Best beef. 53/6 to <>(»/- (ter 1001 b., special pens to 58/-: medium to good. 49/- to 53/-; ordinary, 14/- to 48/-: Inferior, to 3S/-. One line of l(j steers averaged £23/10/-, another of eight steers from £2O/12/6 to £25/'l7/6, and auother of eight steers, £22/15/-. Fat pigs: Good quality porkers maintained their values, but plain and overfat were easier by 5/-, prices being 5(1/- to £l/4/6. average nrlce per lb. Old. to 101 d. Good haveners showed little change, but over fat wore down by 4/- to 5/-; average per lb., BJd. to .10(1.