COMMERCIAL NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1922, Page 4

COMMERCIAL NEWS

! ADJINCTON STOGK MARKET. | A BIG KXTIiV. (Sy Telegraph.—Special to Guardian.) i CHRISTCH U 1! CTI, This Day. I .Ucssrs H. Matson end Co., report as 1 follows regarding their stock sale at Ad- ! dington yards yesterday: I Store sheep.—A larger yarding this ' week and the sale throughout was firmer. Best forward wethers sold up to 24s Gd; best ewes and lambs from | L4,s Gd to 18s Gd; others from 11s to ' Bis Gd. Best shorn wethers from Ids i Gd to Is; best ewes and hoggets in the wool from 22s to 2Gs Gd: shorn ewes and lambs up to 11s. Store cattle.—A large yarding, mostly nondescript lots, hut one or two decent lines of forward steers ' coming forward met with a fair sale, hut, hardly as good as the last two weeks. Young cattle were hardly as good a-s they have been. Best 3 and 4 years steers CG to £0 Bis; 3-vr. ditto £d ds ; forward 2-vr steers £4 os; 18-mos. and 2-vr. ditto £2 to £2 Ids; yearlings 20s; 18-mos. and 2-vr. heifers £2 to £2 Ids; yearlings 32s Gd in .‘lds Gd, to 50s. Bigs.—Of porkers there was a large entry and good demand. Bight £2 7s In £2 Us; heavy £2 lGs to £3: t lit 1 average price being 7UI to B',d. Baconers. —A full yarding and demand for light sorts better than the previous week. Heavy baconers had , no demand. Bight baconers £3 5s to ' £3 10s; heavy £3 12s Gd to £3 Ids. The average price, was 4:!d to GUI. pigs.—A continued good entry of choppers, prices ranging Iron) 03 to £6. Store pigs.—A large, yarding and the demand was keen, hut falling away towards the finish. Weancrs, 12s to 18s ; goorl weaner.s to 2ds; slips 18s to 275; medium stores 28s to 3Gs: largo stores to £2 ss. Beef.—An extra large yarding comprising 590 head including 120 from the North Island The quality all round was an excellent lot. Ihe market opened decidedly easier, and continued so throughout, showing an average decline oi abend 20s per hcael. Prime steers £lO to £l3 2s Gel; extra to £ls 10s; medium £9 to £lO 15s; others, £0 5s to £8 Los Gel. Prime heifers, £8 to £9 Ids: others, £5 1 0s to £7 15s; cows, £7 to £10; lighter 'and inferior £3 ills to £6 Ins. Mutton.—A very large yarding quite sufficient for butchers’ requirements for the next fortnight. After a big lamb sale the mutton sale eiid not start till about 3 p.m. At the time of sending this telegram there were still several alleyways to ho sold. The market opened about last ueck s pality, but improved somewhat as it progressed. This improvement was more apparent in woolly sheep, butchers evidently recognising that with the I good prices ruling for skins that woolly sheep were cheaper than shorn. Graziers were also operating keenly for good shearing sheep. There will not lie any sale next week.