EXCEPTIONAL PRICES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20060, 5 October 1939, Page 10

EXCEPTIONAL PRICES

BEEF AT FRANKTON SHEEP MARKET FIRMER Beef prices reached their peak at the Frankton stock sale on Tuesday, when two beads changed hands at £2O 15s each. There was a keen demand for all the beef offering and exceptional prices were received. A full yarding of fat wethers, mostly of batter quality than last week, met a firmer market throughout. Fat ewes also showed an improvement. Butchers operated freely for a good yarding of heavy fat hoggets, and prices remained firm. Spring lambs reached 32s 6d. A full yarding of store sheep, including a special entry of shorn store wethers, changed hands at satisfactory prices. Quotations: — Cattle. —Extra heavy prime bullocks, to £2O 15s; heavy prime, £l6 10s to £l7 10s; prime medium-weights, £ls to £l6 ss; prime light-weights, £l3 15s to £l4 17s 6d; heavy prime cows, £l3 to £l4 2s 6d; prime medium, £ll 10s to £l2 15s; prime light, £lO 10s to £ll ss; heavy fat cows, £lO to £lO 7s 6d; medium, £9 to £9 15s; light, to £8 15s; heavy prime heifers, £l2 10s to £l3 15s; prime medium, £ll to £l2 7s l 6d; prime light, £lO to £lO 15s. Sheep —Prime woolly wethers, 33s to 35s 3d; lighter. 30s to 32s 6d; wellfinished lighter, 27s to 295; others, 24s ,to 265; heavy prime shorn wethers, 26s Gd to 27s 9d; medium, 24s to 25s Gd; light and unfinished, to 235: heavy prime woolly ewes, 22s to 23s 6d; medium, 20s to 21s 9d; light, 17s to 19s- killable, to 16s; heavy fat shorn ewes, 15s to 16s Gd; lighter, to 14?; spring lambs, to 32s Cd.