COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1920, Page 2

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

4DOINGTON STOCK MARKET. A DOUBLE MARKET. (By Telegraph.—Special to Guardian.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Messrs Matson and Co. report as follows regarding their stock sale yesterday Store Sheep—A small emrv ; ill* stly twes and lambs, which «H a shade better. Best owes and lambs from 20/K. 24/-; others from 14‘i to 1716, b p .-r wethers from -'O/- to 3' 8-. lost hoggets 24/- to 28/-; others, from 20/All classes of coarse WO' I sheep w<-> p hard to sell. Store cattle—A large but misceP tneons entry, with no difference in prices and very few big cattle offered. Two years old steers £7 10s to £9 5s . ; A few good sorts to £ls/5/-; good yearlings steers to £5/15/-; M. S. yearlings £4 to £4/15/-; good fresh cows £6 15s to £9/5/-. No good straight lines were offering. Beef—A large yarding - but not too many for the double market requirements. Some exceptionally fine cattle were yarded and the market was firm all round. Best steers from £26/10 , to £34/10, one extra- good line from | South making £37/5/- to £44/10/- and 1 two others £42/10/- to £45. A line j of West Coast steers realised £23 to £27 7s 6d; prime steers £23 to £26; medium, £2l 15s to £22 10s; graz- 1 iers and unfinished £l4 5s to £lB. C'oiv s I and heifers were also firm at-last week’s j rates. j Mutton—The smallest yarding for some weeks, and not- enough for but- j oilers’s requirements for a fortnight, j Consequently the market opened much 1 firmer than la:4? sale and improved as it progressed. Best shorn (wethers, 40s fid to 47s 9d; others 35s fid to 39s lOd; j shorn ewes 26s fid to 355, a few extra to j 16s 3d. Best woolly wethers 51s fid to | 30s, a few extra to 70s; prime 43s to 50s; medium 38’s to 42s 6d. Graziers were unable to operate at the prices. Not many woolly ewes were offering, but showed a corresponding increase. There vill he no market next Wednesday, owns to Carnival week. -