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Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1923, Page 4

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A3JIfICTON STOCK MARKET (By Telegraph,—Speck;! to Guardian.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Hay. .ticssrs 11. Matson and Co., report ns follows regaiding ihoir slock side at Addingtoii yards yesterday: Store Sheep There was another large yarding I’m this lime of ike year, mostly ewe- and lambs, as well as soveuil lines of hog-gets. Not many wethers were yarded ami the market, especially lor ewe- and lambs, was tie: idedly easier and practically the wlmle yarding pas-ed at auction. Hoggets and wetheis were aLo much easier. Best owes and land s made up to 22- 2d. inleiior and aged Ms 10,1 to lSs 9d : be.-t weile 1,22- to 2IL. a ft.-xv extra to 27-. lid; M.S. hoggets 22:- to 28s I'M, wetlmi hoggets to 28s. ewe hoggets 22s Store cattle. - A largo- yarding and the quality and condition wore boiler than u-ual. In the face of the riding juices of beef and the prospects of feed, the demand wa- generally belter allround and bidding was keen. Eoni-vr. old steers made £8 los to £9 Ids, ilircc yrs ililto C 7 10s to £8 •"*. 2 y rs. ditto £1 to £ii yearling- 20- to 11-; 2-yrs. heil'eis £2 11s to £2 7s (Id, yoni lings 31s to 11-. cow- 29s to £2 10s’. Eat Rigs. Chore -.vi's a much huger emiy of poll. cis and prices were easier. Biiconeis were in sbori supply and jiriee- Wei,• iirm at hale rale-. I.i. La-c-oners made -Cl to £-1 10--. heavy Cl Us to £1 Is, ex-Ira heavy to £1 11-. average price £7 to £8; It. porker-. £2 Ills to C2 II;. heavy £3 I - to £2 7-. average price Sid to 9LI; ehojiporx £1 to £iO.

Stoic - \ large enl ry. Medium nml largo -tores .sold well, lull woanei's eased in price towards the end of the sale. Wortners made 21- to 28-, .-in:: 11 sieves a:ss to 275. medium 31s to Ids. lar.ee to .Vis (id; sows in pig £1 Ids to £1 2s fid. lJeef—A -imilai ,-ized yenline to last week. The i|i!alil,v, however, was very inferior on the avenue. The nnirkel. osjie.'inllv fur any good r lll ;>litv lots, showed an improvement and taking tie sal,-, all round |>iices were lOs to 20s hettei iluiii last week. prim. l steel's mnde £l7 10- to £2l. extra to £2l 10s; medium lls to £l7 os. others £ft to £l3 Ids; prime heil'eis £1 I Ills to £M, extra in £! 1) 2s fid, others £(i to £8 Ids; prime rows £lO to CHS -Is, extra to £l.l 10- ; medium £<> Ms to £!) 11s (id. others down to £1 10.-. Al.i l l l r;n- A wry largo yarding timl too many for butchers’ ioc(iiiiomenls. the (piality generally was baldly up to last week’s standard. The market opened easier than last sale and enntinned so throughout and towards the end the decline was nini,. apparent and ] assings wane i'aiily iTeipunit. Braziers were hardly so keen and so any interior or unfinished lots suffered most in roinparisoii. Best wethers !Ss to Ids. extra to 18s Oil, prime -12 s to !7s (id. othoi.s down to 355; prime ewes 10- to Iks, extra to 12. s 7d, medium 21s fid to Oils, others down to 275; shorn wethers 31.-. fid to 10s fid. shorn ewes 2,’is I’d. BARIS YTOMN’ STOCK SA.I.-K. i At Ita'T.vtown inaugural stoek sale yesterday there "'as a hove attendance I of buyers, some from a> far awa.v as j Hari lTnri in the south, and Charleston in the north. Brines were not high. { hut were as good as could he expected. J The best sale of the day was that oi a purebred Holstein bull, on behalf of Air F. Wade to A!es-is Nelson Bu s., the price lining 21 guinea-. The lirst pui'cha-e was made bv .Mr \Y. .1. dellries (Hokitika). Messrs Mark .Spirit and Co., sold: - On account Ryan and Sheldon., one yearling steer £2 2s (id: on account Hyall Bros 11 18-m.ontlis-old steers £2 11s; on account Donnelly Bros.. 1-1 foui and live-year-old bullocks £8: on account llvall Bros. IS IS-montlis old heifers, passed in at £2 2s (id : on account K. Anted, four empty milch cow.-, £! ; on account Kyan and Sheldon, two empty cows. £-1 : on account Mr L. | Price. seven yearling heifers £1 17-; oil account All .1. Heveldt. eight 18-moiiths-old steers, £2 Ids. four heifers £l. 10-. two steers £1 Is. three heifers £d. and one empty cow £•’>; on account Mr H. I*. Olnev. nine springing heifers, in calf, passed in at £1 17s Cd : on account Xelson Bibs., four grown steers, j £4 2s fid. two store cows £»i 2s fid. HI cows in milk £1 10s. two yearling heifers £1 three yearling heifers £4. two hulls £1 ; account Air T. Dunn, one cow £2 2s Cd. two heifers £2 Is: on aeeoL .t Mr T. Dunn, two hulls £1 2s Cd. Prii* to the Barrytown inaugural cattle market. Mr J. D. Lynch, for Mark Sprot and Co., sold the stock and chattels of Messrs Ryan and Sheldon, at Barrytown. 'Die stock, which was in very good condition, did net bring very good prices, some 55 bead of eat tie were yarded, and when sold realised £179 odd. The best price for cows was £S. Two heifers brought £1 17s 6d. A colt brought £8 os. and a hack £o