BEEF RATES EASIER

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20078, 26 October 1939, Page 13

BEEF RATES EASIER

CALF VALUES FIRMER GOOD SHEEP SALE WESTFIELD SECTION (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A larger beef entry, with a good proportion of quality cattle, generally showed an casing tendency at the Westfield stock sale yesterday. Extra choice ox beef made 42s per 1001 b.; choice and prime 35s to 41s; prime cow and heifer beef 32s to 40s, boner and rough 25c to 345;

Extra heavy prime steers made from £ls to £l7, heavy £l4 5s to £l6 7s Gd, medium £l2 10s to £l4 15s, light £lO 10s to £l3 10s, unfinished £6 to £ll 10s; extra heavy prime cows and heifers £lO to £ll 15s, heavy £9 to £lO ss, medium £6 to £3 17s Cd. light £5 15s to £7 15s, aged and unfinished £3 10;: to £6.

An average yarding of calves, with good quality runners and vealers in short supply, sold keenly at very firm late rates. Runners made £4 to £lO 15s, heavy vealers £5 to £7 7s 6d, medium £4 to £6, light £3 10s tp £4 16s, smaller £3 to £3 16s, small 18s to £3, bobby and rough Is to £1 16s.

A much heavier yarding of pigs sold steadily at slightly easier rates. Choppers made from 32s to 345; heavy baconers 78s to 87s. medium 70s to 755, light 63s to 675; heavy porkers 55s to 60s, medium 48s to 535, light 42s to 475, small and unfinished 38s to 425; stores 34s to 435, slips 25s to 365, weaners 14s to 325; sow with litter, £9 ss. Baconers averaged about 6jd per lb. and porkers 61cl to 7d per lb. Values were easier for a larger yarding of sheep, which sold steadily. Extra heavy prime wethers made from 29s 6d to 34s 6>d, shorn 29s to 33s 3d; heavy and woolly 31s 6d to 33s 6d. shorn 26s Gd to 29s 6d; medium woolly 29s to 31s 3d, shorn 24s to 27s 3d; light woolly 27s to 28s 9d, shorn 22s to 25s 6d; unfinished woolly 20s to 28s 9d, shorn 16s to 235; heavy prime maiden ewes to 32s 6d; heavy prime ewes, woolly 26s 6d to 28s 6d, shorn 18s 6d to 225; medium woolly 25s to 26s 3d. shorn 16s to 19s 9d; light woolly 20s Ocl to 24s Od, shorn 16s to 17s 9d; plain and aged, 10s Gd to 15s 6d; extra heavy prime hoggets 24s to 26s 3d, heavy 22s to 235, lighter 20s to 21s, light 16s 6d to 18s Gd, small plain 10s to 15s.

The supply of spring lambs was in excess of the demand, with values lower. Extra heavy prime lamb made 4'rorn 27s 6cl to 295, heavy 25s to 27s 3d, medium 22s to 25s 6d, lighter 23s to 245, light 20s to 22s Gd, small and plain 18s to 20s.