ALL-ROUND DECLINE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20096, 16 November 1939, Page 14

ALL-ROUND DECLINE

STOCK AT ADDINGTON

SHEEP DOWN MOST

CATTLE DROP 20,/- EACH

(Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Exceptionally heavy entries came forward on the resumption of the weekly Addington stock market yesterday alter the Cup week holiday, and there was an all-round easing in values.

Fat sheep met with the biggest decline. but fat and store cattle, fat and store pigs, vealers and dairy cows were all easier. A factor in the heavy pennings is the continued dry weather, fat stock sellers having little feed to rely on and potential buyers of store stock being afraid of the continuance of dry weather.

All classes were represented in the store sheep section, wethers from Chatham Islands figuring largely. These sold at up t.o 19s 7d out of the wool. Local coarse-woolled ewe hoggets sold up to 25s 9d and the best ewes and lambs to 14s Id all counted. There was a slight casing in values. A small entry of spring lambs sold at an improvement of about Id per lb., or up to 9d a sheep. Overflow Yarding About 9000 fat sheep were penned, including, close on 1000 from the Chathanis and several truck-lots from the south. The overflow brought prices back by 5s a head for shorn medium-weight and inferior ewes, to 1 4s for heavy and 3s 6d for wethers. Sheep in the wool met with a still easier sale. The best wethers made from 29s to 355, shorn medium 24s to 28s, and secondary down to 17s. Good ewes, shorn, ranged from 22s to 2Gs: ordinary and light from 18s. down to 12s for very light conditioned. A total of 520 cattle was penned, values being down by an average of 20s a head except foi a few of the primest sorts. The best steers made from £lB to £24 medium down to £ls and light down'to £ll. Heifers ranged for better sorts, from £l3 to £ls, and cows from £l2 to £l4.

There was an extra heavy yarding oi tat pigs. Porkers were easier by 3s and Gs a head, and baconers by 4s to 10s a head. Porkers averaged 63d to 73d per lb., and baconers G’.d to 7d per lb.