COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1930, Page 6

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

ADDINGTON STOCK SALE.

CHRISTCHURCH, Alay 8

A decline in values of fat sheep, beef, and store sheep marked the Metropolitan Market at Addington yesterday. ! Fat cattle were entered in smaller numbers than they were last week, and the offering included a lot of unfinished and backward stuff. Prices fell from £1 to £1 10s a head.

There was a yarding of between fourteen and fifteen races of .. fat sheep ,and this over-supply probably accounted for the drop of 2s a head which was recorded over the whole sale. Amines ,were firm to slightly easier at the beginning of • the stile, but toward the end there was a sharp decline, amounting to 3s or 4s. Fat lambs wiere yarded in much the same numbers as they were last week, and met a Steady sale all through. The better sorts were bought up readily by butchers at prices about on a par with those of last week, and export buyers operated freely at the. new schedule rate *of 7d. ' V-

Store sheep were . more numerous than last week, and met a dragging sale throughout. Prices fell by about Is 6d all round, and bidding wlis confined ,to the limited number of good pens among an otherwise very mixed yarding. Fat Sheep.—Values were: Extra prime wethers to 31. s 7d, prime wethers 26s 6d to 295, medium wethers. •23s 6cl to 28s, light wethers, 17s to 22s 6d, extra prime ewes to 25s lOd, prime ewes 18s 6d to 225, medium ewes 15s to 17s 6d, light and aged 10s to 14 s.

Store Sheep.—Values were: Good ewe lambs to 16s 7d, medium ewe jambs 12s 6d to 13s 6d, ordinary owe lambs 9s to 11s, forward m.s. lambs 11s 6cl to 14s, medium m.s. iambs 9s to 11s, extra' good wetlier lambs 12s to 14s, good wether lambs 9s ‘U to Us, ordinary wether lambs 6s iid to Is, backward lambs 3s to 6s, good two-tooth halfbred ewes to 20s, good mur-tooth halfbred ewes to 20s, ordinary two-tooth haltbred ewes to 13s 6d.

Fat Lambs. —Values' were: Extra prime lambs up to 27s 4d, prime ■''limbs 21s 6-d to 245, medium lambs 'Bs to 21s, light I a nibs 15s to 18's 6d. B ee f.—Best mediurii-weight beef

made from 37s to 40s per 109!b, medium quality from 31s to 33s 6d; heavy steer from 33s to 36s Od, good cow 26s to- 28s, secondary 21s to 255, •nd rough down to-20s. Vaiuns were' Extra prime heavy steers £lB to £l9 17s 6d, prime heavy steers ■ £15.10s to £l7 15s,- prime, medium-weight steers £l2 to £ls, ordinary' quality steers C 9 5s to £ll 15s,' light steers £7 to

;9, extra prime heifers to Cl 4 l7s

id, .prime heifers £9 10s to £l2, ordinary heifers £7 to £9, light heifer? £5 10s to £6 15s, extra prime cows

£ll 10s, ordinary cows £6 15s to £8 1 os, light and aged £4 2s 6d to r 'j os. Vealers.—Good calves sold well, but c pr t|ie,others it was a dragging sale. '-•The'tcip pricb was £8 7s 6d.

Store Cattle,—A large line of attractive eighteen-months spring culvers was yarded, but bidding was slow. They brought from £4 7s 3d to ,£5 '7s 6d. A pen of 11 steers made £6. Calves brought up to 455, and tows up to £5 Ids. Potting bulls made up do £6 10s.

Dairy Cattle.—Values' wore: Best second- and third ealvefs, to £l6, ood second and third ealvers, isll to 514, ordinary second and third e'alvors’ £8 10s to £ll, aged and inferior C 4 10s to £B. extra good heifers to 'll4, good heifers £ll to £l3s 10s, irdinary heifers £9* to £lO -10 s, i tier ior and backward £7 to £B.

•Fat Pigs.—Values' were: Chopper? 10s to £.4 18s 6d, extra heavy to l"7 8s "6d, porkers 38s to 48s, heavy

corkers 40s tid to £3, average price

■ ter. lb;-6|d to 7 Id; light baconcrs £3 •s. 6d. to £4, heavy baconers £4 2s M to £4 los 6d, extra heavy to £6 is 6d, average price per lb, 6kl to <d. Score Pigs.—Values were. Large .tores 28s to 325, medium 23s 20s, mall 15s to 18s, weaners 4s lo 12? 3d.