LIVE STOCK SALES WESTFIELD

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 16, 14 October 1943, Page 3

LIVE STOCK SALES WESTFIELD

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October 13. At the Westfield stock sale competition was good for a large entry of beef, values showing little or no alteration on late rates. Extra choice ox, £3; choice ana prime, £3/16/- to £2/Is/-; secondary and plain £2/11/- to £2/14/-; extra prime voung cow and Heifer beef, £2/8/- to £2 16/-; choice and prime, £2/4/- to £-/ fa /'- ordinary cow, £l/12/- to £2/2/-; extra heavy prime steers, £24 to £2B; heavy, £ 9 OAO/- to £22/10/-; lighter, £ll/10/to £l9/10/-: light, £l4/10/- to £l6/10/-; small and unfinished, £9 to £l3; heavy prime young cows and heifers, £la to £l6/7/6; heavy. £l2 to £l4; lighter, £9 to £lO/10/-; light, £7 to £8; aged and unfinished cows, £5 to £6. Sheep.—Steady competition and late rates for a full entry of mutton. Extra heavy prime wethers, woolly, £7/10/- to ~” 12/6; shorn, £l/17/- to £l/18/6; heavy woolly. £2/6/- to £2/8/-; shorn £l/10/to £l/16/-; medluE?, woolly, £2/2/- to £2/5/-: shorn, £l/12/6 to £l/14/-; light, woolly, £l/16/6 to £2; shorn. £l/7/6 to £l/11/6; plain and unfinished, wethers, woolly, £l/8/- to £l/14/-; shorn, 19/6 to £l/4/-; heavy prime young and maiden ewes, woolly, £l/13/- to £l/10/6; shorn, £l/3/- to £l/4/-; heavy prime ewes, woolly, £l/10/- to £l/11/6; shorn, £1 1/2: lighter, woolly, £l/4/6 to £l/7/6, shorn. 17/- to 19/-; plain and aged ewes, woolly. 17/- to £l/2/-; shorn 7/- to 10/-. Lambs. —Big numbers came forward, I>ut in spite of steady competition values eased considerably. Heavy prime, 3-/- to 33/6, medium. 29/- to 31/-; lighter, 26/- to 28/-, light, 23/- to 25/-; small and plain, 10/Steady bidding for an increased varding, but values were again lower. Runners. £7/13/- to £7/6/-; heavy yealers. £6/5/- to £7/10/-; medium, £u to £6. light, £3/10/- to £4/10/-; small. £l/a/to £3/8/-; unfinished and bucket-fed. £1 to £l/16/-; bobby and rough, o/- to

Pigs.—Steady demand for an increased yarding and values were fully firm at late quotations. Choppers, £l/10/- to £i/7/-, heavy prime baconers, £4/10/- to medium, £4/4/- to £4/8/-; light. £o/lb/to £4: heavy porkers, £3 to £3/7/-; medium, £2/14/- to £2/18/-; light, £2/6/- to £2/10/-; small and unfinished, £2 to £- 4/-; stores, £l/15/- to £2/10/-; slips, £1 6/- to £l/13/-: weaners. 18/- to £lzo/-.