ADDINGTON MARKET.
[By Telegraph—Press Association.] Christchurch, last night. The weekly sale at Addington took place to-day. Fat cattle: 215 were yarded, including some good lines of bullocks. Prices were the same as last week, 19s to 24s 6d. Good bullocks realised £9 to 4)12 2s ; lighter, £6 to £8 10s; prime heifers, £8 to £9 5s ; lighter, £5 15s to £7 _10s; best cows, £7 to £8 10s ; others, £o 12s to £6 10s. Store Cattle : 390 were yarded. There was a dull sale. Yearlings realised 24s to 24s 6d ; 15 to 18 months, £2 2s to £2 18s; 2- heifers, £4 12s ; 2j-year do., £5 ss; 3- steers, £6 12s fid; heifers, £5 15s; cows, £2 to £4 15s; dairy cows, £4 to £9.
Fat sheep: 5600 were yarded, mostly ewes, with a few good lines of wethers, buyers for export competing keenly for wethers and good ewes. Prices of wethers rose ninepence per head. Butchers’ ewes were in even supply, with a dragging and irregular sale. Prime wethers, 19s 6d ; good freezers 16s to 18s 6d, up to 18s 3d for extra prime; lighter, 15s; wethers and ewes, 14s to 16s; maiden ewes, 14s to 18s ; butchers’ best ewes, 14s to 16s up to 16s Id ; very prime merino wethers 8s to 11s 9d. There were about 500 head of North Island sheep in, I wethers making 15s 7d to 16s Bd, 150 being for export, at the former figure; mixed wethers and ewes, 14s 9d. Fat lambs : 2675 were yarded, mostly secondary sorts. Owing to the keen demand for freezing prices rose 6d a head ; 2021 were taken for export at 10s lOd to 14s 2d. Butchers took a few at 9s to 133 6d ; 48 tegs from Acton Estate were taken for freezing at 19s 7d, and a line of 651 from Springbank at 13s 3d. Store Sheep.—B6oo were yarded, mostly wethers and lambs. There were very few ewes, and only slack demand. Wethers and lambs were almost unsaleable. Nearly all were passed forward. Wethers realised from 13s 6d to 14s 3d ; others, 10s 6d to 12s 6d; ewes, 7s 6d to 10s 10d; lambs, 6s to 8s lid. Pigs.—Over 600 were yarded. The demand for fats was weak, and there was a decline of per lb, but stores showed an improvement. Baconers realised 32s to 42s 6d, and 48s 6d for extra heavy, 3d to 3:ld per lb. Porkers brought 20s to 28s, or 3fd to Sid. Large stores were at 15s to 23s ; smaller, 10s to 12s ; suckers and ; weaners, 4s 6d. |
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 410, 8 May 1902, Page 3
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