COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1930, Page 2

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

ADDINGTON STOCK SALE [By Telegraph, Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 29. There was a slightly larger yarding or fat cattle. Values firmed for most classes. Heavy sold: Steers £2l to £24 2s 6(1, prime £l7 os to £l9 os, medium £ls Jos to £l6 15s, light £ll os to £l3 10s; heavy heifers £l4 os t<» £l6 2s 6d, prime £l2 10s to £l3 10s, medium £9 os to £ll, plain £8 os tc £J ss, unfinished from £7 IPs. Extra heavy cows sold £l4 10s to £l6 12s 6d. prime £lO 10s to £ll 10s, medium £t 15s to £9 10s, plain £6 to £7 10s, inferior from £5 10s. There was a firm demand for all classes of store cattle.

There was a large yarding oT store lambs, and the demand was good ai prices slightly in advance of those at the previous sale. There was a fair yarding of adult store sheep, the quality being mixed, and they were selling at late rates, A medium yarding of fat sheep had only a small percentage of good quality. Prices advanced on the previous sale. Extra prime ewes sold to 355. prime ewes 31s 6d to 31s, medium 27s to 31s, light 23s to 265, inferior from 19s 6cl. Extra prime ewes sold to 30? Id, prime 25s to 295. medium 22s 6d to 24s fid, light 18s to 21s 6ci, inferior from 15s.

There was a medium yarding of fat lambs, much light stuff being penned. All lots sold freely, especially the best quality. Extra prime lambs sold to 31s Id. prime 27s 295, medium 23s to 265. plain from 19s. There was a large yarding of porkers. Values declined. Bacon was firm at late rates. Choppers sold 50s to £4. extra heavy to £7 Is, porkers 48s to 555, heavy 57s to £3 Bs. average 8d to 9d pei' pound. Bat-oners sold £3 10s to £4 10s. heavy £4 15s to £5 10s, extra to £6, average 7d to 8d per lb.

of them are to be seen lower down the river, but the Balfour can show what the Waiho or Fox cannot, lines of well defined lateral moraines on both sides. On the west side there are two rising up in terraces from j the edge of the iee, the upper one topped with a flat of grass to the foot of the cliffs'of the Craig and tail. Since 1888 tile lower of these terraces has been almost destroyed by the action of the be leaving little trace of its former size, hut the upper one which averages one hundred feet above the edge of the. ice is still well defined from a little below Saddle 1) on the crag and tail to away round the end of that ridge into- the McKenna where its line is shown, by a

high water fall or cataract packed with boulders. The only break on this moraine is at Point O wheic a cliff comes down nearly to the iee with only a narrow slope of boulder to travel round. Over the McKenna this same lino shows in a. slope oi drift lying on the side of the hill, and gradually sloping away till it finally disappears near the entrance to the gorge.