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Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1933, Page 2

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ADDINGTON SALE. IMPROVED PRICES. (Per Press Association — Copyright ) CHRISTCHURCH, September -27 Due to a large yarding of lambs, that lino was cheaper to-day at Addington market, but other ".classes of live stock sold well, beef being firmer, also mutton and pork. There was no noticeable alteration in .the store theeip values. There were numerous buyers, who competed keenly for all classes. * There was a smaller offering of mutton. Values were firm from the but'set, and improved progressively, there being an average rise of 2s /per head. Rost heavy wethers sold to 40s Id per head; prime heavy ewes sold up to Ms 7d and down to 19s.

There was a double yarding of spring lambs. The quality generally was good. The market was easier owing to over-supply. The demand was firm, however. Top -price was 30$ 7d. Good average lambs sold frqhi 27s 6d to 29s 68, and light front 19s There was ft smaller offering of beef,' the quality being good, and, the market was firm for the best quality, though erratic at times; with a firming tendency. Heavyweight bullocks made from 26s to 29s per hundmlweigth; mediums from 23s to 255; light from 20s. Best heifers and cows sold to 25a per hundred, and occasionally to 30s; medium quality from 23s to 265; and unfinished from 21s, Tqp price for bullocks was £l4 12s fid, and they sold down to £0 Ss, Heifers sold to £lO 17s fid; light from £2 15s; best cows to £lO 2s 6d; light from £8 15, There was a • full yarding of fat pigs. Porkers were firm, the heavier sorts being procured for export. Bacon was firm at late rates. Porkers made 28s fid to 31s fid; heavy 33s 6:1 to 38s fid .whoppers 22s 6d to £3 Is fid; baeoners 44s 6d t-o 49s 6d; heavy 53s fid to 58$ 6d; extra to £3 6s 6d. Large store pigs were, in demand.

AUCKLAND, September‘27. - Sales: Big River Is 7|d ; Grind Junction 4s "fid • Okarito 11s. CHRISTCHURCH, September 27. V Sales; Nokomai 2s lid; 'Mataki 2s 3d. ' : v , ' \ •

NX .STOCK ■■ EXCHANGES. .' CHRISTCHURCH, September 27. Saels on ’Change: Government 4 Inscribed, 1946, £IOO 10s; Government, 4 Inscribed; 1949, £lOl j()s; Commercial Bank of Australia 17s Id, 17s (2): Commercial Bank of Sydney £lB 8s; Bank of N.S. -Wales £33 17 S 6d, £?4 ; UJiZ. Gus.ra.ntee iCorporatiojn . (cum. dlv.) 7 IS lOd, 7s ,9d (2) ; N-Z. 'Refrig. .(£1 paid) 19s 6d ; Refrigerator (10s paid) 9s 95, 9 S 10d (2).Kaiapai Woollen (17s paid) 9s 2d; Dunlop Rubber (cum. div.) 19s (4); . Mt. Lyell 23a lOd; N.Z. Farmers' Co-op. per cent. Stork, 1940, £6O (3) ; Nokomni 2s lid, Mataki 2$ 3d. Reported: Bank New Zealand .46s 3d ; Dalgety £lO 7 fl 6d ; Southland Frozen Meat (fully paid' or.d. 53s (late sale September 26). WELLINGTON, September 27.

Reported sales: Bank of New Zealand £2 6s ; New Zealand Guarantee Corp. ford. cum. rights and div.) 7s 8d; South British Insurance £3 14s 6d. DUNEDIN, September 27., Sales on ’Change: iM. Lyell £1 '3® lid; Paddy’s Point 5s 4d; BellHooper Is o£d. Reported ; Bank of New Zealand 46s 3d; National Bank of Now Zealand 85s 6d ; Mt. Lyell 23s Bd. After' call: Bank of New Zea.Vnd |6S; iLyells 24s (2); ‘ ■.Mdsg<:el Woollen £9 ss. RUGBY. September 26. Sterling on New York 4.76 f, Paris 79 S-16. iStock markets closed with irregularity British .funds remained steady. Japanese bonds closed weak. Kaffirs became firm on news that the strikes at the mines had been called off.

SALE OF HERD. DiR-OP IN ViJLUES. LONDON, September 26. Sir Gomes Berry’s famous herd of beef Shorthorns, auctioned at Pendley firm, revealed an astonishing fal] in prices compared with 1930 . Sixty-two lots totalled 2363 guineas The highest price was two hundred guineas for the leader of the herd Pendlev Lord Ramsden, sold to go to Australia. Its side Basildon Rosicnician was sold to Australia m 1930 for two thousand guineas. Many magnificent c° w s and heifers were. s old at en to tweny-five guineas apiece, of which some were bought for the King’s herd at Windsor.