FIRM BEEF DEMAND

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

FIRM BEEF DEMAND

SHEEP VALUES HIGHER PIG RATES MAINTAINED WESTFIELD MARKET (P«r Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A smaller beef entry of first-class quality made full late rates under a firm demand at the Westfield stock sales yesterday. Extra choice ox beef made 42s per 1001 b., choice and prime 39s to 41s; prime cow and heifer beef, 37s to 40s; boner and rough, 29s to 345. Ex‘ra heavy prime steers made from £l7 to £l9 12s 6d, heavy £ls to £l6 15s, medium £l4 to £l4 15s, light £l2 to £l3 15s, unfinished £9 5s to £l2; extra heavy cows £lO to £ll 15s, medium £3 15s to £lO 7s Gd, light £7 to £8 15s, unfinished £4 to £7. A short offering of prime quality calves sold under a keen demand at fully firm levels. Other sorts were steady. Runners made from £5 5s to £9; heavy vealers £G 10s to £7 .9s, medium £5 10s to £6 Gs, light £4 to £5 Gs, small £3 3s to £3 16s, smaller £1 2s to £3 ss, bobby and rough Is to £1 ss. A small average pig entry was quoted firm on ruling rates. Choppers made £2 10s to £4 8s; heavy baconers £3 12s to £4 Bs, medium £3 15s to £3 16s, light £3 2s to £3 8s; heavy porkers £2 15s to £3, medium £2 8s to £2 12s, light £2 to £2 2s Gd, smaller £1 14s to £1 18s; scores £1 12s to £2 2s; slips £1 6s to £1 14s; wcaners 15s to £1 Bs. Baconers averaged 6jd per lb., and porkers 65cl to 7cl per lb. Values for a smaller mutton yarding improved. Extra heavy prime wethers, woolly, made 38s to 41s; shorn, 32s to 33s 3d; heavy, woolly 36s to 37s 6d, shorn 30s to 31s 9d; medium, woolly 32s 6d to 355, shorn 26s to 29s 9cl; light, 28s to 31s. Extra heavy prime ewes and maiden woolly, 29s to 38s; heavy, 26s to 31s 6d; medium, 21s to 24s 6d; light, 18s to 23s 6d; unfinished, 7s Gd to 17s. There was an average entry of prime lamb, which sold steadily. Prime made 18sMo 395, others 3s to 17s. Spring lambs sold to 395.