STOCK SALES

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1933, Page 12

STOCK SALES

PRICES AT FEILDING

Dalgety and Company, Limited, report on their Feilding cattle fair, held on Friday:—ln the sheep section the numbers were smaller and the demand was in excess of the supply of fat sheep, owing no doubt to the butchers having to fill two weeks' requirements, and there is no sale next Friday owing to'the show here. Some good quality sheep were penned, and practically all were shorn. The sale opened with a distinct advance on the previous sale, and this advance of Is 6d to 2s per head was fully maintained throughout. The - store section comprised mainly hoggets, and these were keenly competed for, practically everything being sold at auction. There was a full yarding of cattle, which with the exception of fat cattle met an easier market; particularly was this the case with young cattle, both run and dairy sorts. We quote:—Fat 2tooths 15s 7d, 15s 9d, 21s 9d; fat ewes, woolly, 10s, 13s 7d; shorn, 15s 4d, 15s 6d; b.f., 21s; fat shorn wethers, .16s lOd, 20s sd, 21s Id; 2-tooth wethers, 15s, 15s 2d; 4-tooth wethers, 16s 3d, 17s 4d; b.f. 2-tooths, 15s 2d; 2-tooth ewes, 11s Id, 16s 3d; ewe hoggets, 21s lOd; woolly ewes, 5s 2d; 100 per cent. b.f. lambs, 26s 2d, 26s 3d, 26s 6d, 27s 3d: dairy heifers to calve, £2 17s 6d, £3 15s, £4 10s, £5; heifers, calved, £3. £3 ss, £4 10s; dairy cow, guaranteed sound, £4 10s; fat bullocks, £7; fat cows, £3 16s, £4 10s; fat cows, Jersey, £1 7s 6d, £2 15s; vealers, with cows thrown in, 30s; store cows, 22s 6d, 27s 6d; yearling Jersey heifers, 30s, 265, 31s, 38s, 395, £2 ss, £2 11s, £2 17s. £2 18s. £3.

The New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Dist. Co.. Ltd., report on the Feilding supplementary cattle fair:—We submitted a yarding of 1300 head of all classes.' There was a good inquiry for good conditioned grown bullocks and run-bred cows and heifers, prices for these sections being well maintained. In view of the fact that feed has not yet come away in up-country districts the demand for young steers was not ro keen and prices declined by 5s per head. Station-bred . yearling heifers sold freely. The quality of the yearling Jersey heifers was not up to last sale, and values were comparatively low. Beef, both ox and cow, was in demand, and prices fully maintained. In sheep our entry was confined to fats, all lots selling freely at improved prices. Our principal sales were: —25 Hereford bullocks, £5; 25 do, £4 17s; 19 P.A. bullocks, £5 2s; 50 do, £4 18s; 20 3yr Hereford steers, £4 ss; 64 3yr P.A. steers, £4; 49 do £3 17s 6d; 42 2yr Hereford steers, £3 13s; 15 do £3 Us; 22 do £2 19s; 44 yearling P.A. steers, £3; 43 do £2 10s; 36 do £2 16s; small yearling steers, 34s 6d to 39s 6d; 83 P.A. cows, £3 ss; 40 do £3; others, 34s to £2 16s; 34 3yr P.A. heifers, £3 12s; 15 do £3 7s; others, £2 15s to £3 6s; 2yr heifers, £2 to £2 12s 6d; 28 P.A. yearling heifers, £2 ss; 50 do £2 9s; 65 do £2; smaller sorts, 33s to 38s; Jersey yearling heifers, best, £2 19s to £3 ss; others 38s to £2 18s; small, 26s to 31s; fat bullocks, light, £6 12s 6d to £6 15s; fat cows, best, £4 17s 6d to £5 10s; others, £3 17s 6d to £4 10s; dairy sorts, £2 2s 6d to £2 17s; fat heifers, light, £3 2s '6d. Sheep: Fat hoggets, 25s 3d, 225, 21s 6d; lighter, 17s 8d to 19s; fat ewes, 15s'Od,- 15s 3d, 14s 8d; lighter, 11s to 13s 7d. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Feilding sale held on Friday as under:—A medium entry of sheep in all sections came forward to meet a buoyant market and we report a total clearance, values in all sections improving on last week. Fat sheep were short in supply and here again prices appreciated considerably. A heavy yarding of run cattle came forward, and in this department the sale was inclined to drag; nevertheless a fair clearance was effected —values hardly being maintained on the late rates., Fat cattle: Very few good quality cattle came forward; nevertheless the demand was fairly keen. Dairy-bred yearling heifers were again penned in large numbers —these met just a fair sale with quite a fair number of passings. Dairy cattle: Very few were yarded, with practically no alteration on last week's rates. Quotations:—Fat slieep: fat ewes, 15s, 15e 7d, 17s, 18s Bd, 19s Id, 20s 3d, 235; fat wethers, 20s 6d, 24s 7d, 255; fat woolly hoggets, 22s 6d, 23s 6d, 23s lOd, 24s 3d; store sheep, ewes and lambs, 22s Id, 26s • 2d, 26s 3d, 26s 6d, 27s 3d, 28s; fat cattle, fat heifers, £3 Is, £3 15s, £i 12s 6d, £4 15e, £5 7s 6d, £5 17s 6d; fat cows, £3 12s 6d, £4 6s, £4 10s, £4 15s, £5, to £6; fat cows, dairy bred, £2. £2 10s, £3, £3 ss, £3 13s, £3 18a, ,£4 10s; store cattle, 2yr steers, £3 ss, £3 13s, £4 3s; empty Shorthorn cows, £3 6s; yearling Jersey heifers, £1 14s 6d, £2, £2 Is, £2 11s, £2 13s, £2 16e, £2 19s 6d; potter cows, 19s, 30s, 335; dairy cattle, springing heifers, £2, £2 10s, £3, £3 12s 6d, £4, £1 15s, £5 10s, to £6 ss; springing cows, £3 15s, £4 10s, £4 17s 6d, £5 2s 6d, £5 15s. RONGOTEA QUOTATIONS. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co,, Ltd., Palmerston North, report:—During the week we held Kongotea sale, and the supplementary cattle fair at Fcilding.. At Rongotea we had a heavy .yarding of pigs and a small entry of cattle. Tiia pig market was good, and we cleared the entry under the hammer at prices. satisfactory to venders. The cattle market was dull. Prices were:—Springing heifers £4 15s cows, £3 to £4 ss; fat cows, £2 12s to £3 I6s; store cows, 20s to 31s; yearling heifers, 36s to £2 7s 6d; porkers, 345, 365, 39s £2 Is. to £2 4s; stores, 21s to 31s; weaners, 16s, 17s 6d, 18s 6d, to 20s 6d.. At the Feilding cattle fair on Friday we' had a good entry. With the exception of bullocks prices were easier. Prices: —Bullocks, £4 12s 6d to £5 2s 6d; 2 and 3yr Hereford steers, £3 12s to £3 ICs; yearling steers; £2 8s 6d to £2 14s; heifers-, 57s 6d to £2 4s 6d; yearling Jersey heifers, 35s to £2 17s 6d;.fat woolly hoggets, 18s Od.

The directors of Youiighusband, Ltd., woolbrokers, Melbourne, have declared a dividend of 3 per cent, for the half-year ended September 30, payable on November 25. Interim dividend paid last year was 2'/i per cent., and final dividend was also at that rate, making 5 per cent, for the year ended 'March 31, 1933. The steel work for the proposed new Ladnrr Bridge across the Fraser Eivcr. Canada, is to be supplied by Dormau Long and Co.* Ltd. . . ~