JOHNSONVILLE SALE.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 86, 8 October 1931, Page 16

JOHNSONVILLE SALE.

Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., and Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on Johnsonville sale held 6th .October as follows:—"To the usual attendance of buyers1 we submitted an average yarding of cattle. The yarding was mostly prime quality bullocks, with an odd pen of inferior cows. No good quality female stock came forward. Prices were on a par with last week's rates. There was a full yarding of sheep, with the exception of spring lambs, whioh were penned in smaller, numbers than usual. Prices for wethers and shorn ewes were on a par with last week's rates, but woolly ewes were easier to the extent of Is per head. Owing to the short yarding' spring lambs showed a firming tendency. We quote: Show bullocks, £13 17s 6d, £13 12s 6d, £13 10s, £13 ss; prime heavy bullocks, £13, £12 15s, £12 10s, £12 ss, £12; medium bullocks, £11 10s, £11 ss, £11 2s 6d, £11, £10 17s 6d, £10 15s, £10 10s, £10 ss, £10; light and unfinished bullocks, none yarded; prime heavy cows aud heifers, none yarded; medium cows and heifers, none yarded; light and unfinished cows and heifers, £5 ss, £5; boner cows, 7sJ vealers, calves, none ' yarded; prime heavy woolly wethers, 18s 9d, 18s 6d; prime heavy shorn wethers, 18s 4d, 18s, 17s 9d, 17s, 16s lOd; medium woolly wethers, 16s 4d, 16s; medium shorn wethers, 15s 9d, las 4d, 14s 7d; light and unfinished woolly wethers, 13s 9d, 13s 4d, 12a lOd; light and unfinished shorn wethers, 13s, 12s lOd, 11s 2d; heavy hoggets, 16s 2d, 15s lOd, 15s 8d; light hoggets and plain hoggets, none yarded; prime heavy woolly ewes, 16s, 15s Bd, 15s 6d; prime heavy shorn ewes, 15s, 14s lOd, 14s Od; medium woolly ewes, 13s lOd, 13s 6d, 13s; medium shorn ewes, 12s lOd, 12s 6d, 12s; light and unfinished ewes, lls 6d, 10b 9d, 10s; prime heavy. woolly ewes, 16s, 15s Bd, 15s 6d; prime heavy shorn ewes, 15s, 14s lOd, 14s 6d; medium woolly ewes, 13s lOd, 13s 6d, 13s; medium shorn ewes, 12s lOd, 12s 6d, 12s; light and unfinished ewes, lls 6d, 10s 9d, 10s; heavy spring lambs, 26s (single), 22s 6d, 21s 4d, 20s 6d, 20s; spring lambs, 18s 3d, 17s Od, 17s, 16s 9d; light spring lambs, 15s, 14s Od, 13s lOd."