DEMAND KEEN

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3252, 14 April 1943, Page 3

DEMAND KEEN

FARMERS BUYING STORE PIGS VALUES AT MORRINSVILLE The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company Limited report that at their weekly stock sale held at Morrinsville on Friday a good entry of fat sheep and lambs, and a small entry of store lambs came forward. Competition was steady and prices were on a par with recent late rates.

A good yarding of fat cows was penned and heavy prime quality was in demand and sold freely. An extra heavy yarding of boner and store cows was easier in value while prices for bulls were firm.

A large yarding of fat pigs and a full entry of store and weaner pigs came forward. Bidding for baconers and porkers was very steady with prices fully up to last week’s quotations. Competition for a large entry of store pigs was keen, values improving towards the end of the sale. 'Choppers also were in demand. Quotations: —

■Sheep.—Fat wethers, 27s to 27s 9d; lighter, 255; fat B.F. hoggets, 24s to 20s 6d; fat ewes, to 15s; prime heavy fat lambs, 26s 9d; light fat lambs, 21s 10d to 225; forward wether lambs, 17s 6d; B.F. store lambs, 14s; W.F. store wether lambs, I.ls Id to 14s 3d.

Cattle. —Medium fat S.H. cows, £7 10s to £8 2s 6d; forward S.H. cows, £6 4s to £6 10s; fat Jersey cows and heifers, £5 10s to £6; lighter, £4 15s to £5 ss; heavy boner cows, £4 to £4 16s; lighter, £3 to £3 l’ss; store cows, 10s to £2 10s; bulls, £5 to £9 2s 6d. Pigs.—Heavy choppers, £4 10s to £4 16s; others, £2 5s to £4; prime topweight baconers, £4 10s to £4 15s; heavy baconers 1 , £4 4s to £4 8s; medium, £3 14s to £4 2s; light, £3 6s to £3 ,12s; heavy porkers, £2 14s to £3 4s; medium, £2 6s to £2 12s; light porkers, 34s to £2 2s; unfinished porkers, 28s 325; large stores, 18s to 24s 6d; slips, 12s to 16s; weaners, 4s to 8s 6d; service boars, £2 to £3 17s 6d.

are even higher. -Cotton stockings are now selling for more than good silk did before the war, and neither the nylon... nor--the---rayon stockings, which are obtainable now at similarly augmented prices, give anything like the wear. Wool, of which so much of the world’s finest could be readily-obtained from Australia without in any way disturbing the war economy, is rapidly becoming unavailable to the great bulk of the people who, despite increased wages, are still a very much restricted budgetary class. It is extraordinary to see the number of garments of all kinds labelled 10 per cent, or 20 per cent, wool in the shops.

Americans not only can afford wool: they need wool in this climate. Women complain that shoddy is taking its place. This cheapening is accompanied by cheapening in fashioning and sewing. It would seem that what America needs is a balanced privation; a genuine privation, and the elimination of the unjustified privation which acto the benefit of a small and unscrupulous part of the population.