Commercial

Levin Daily Chronicle, 9 August 1917, Page 3

Commercial

LEVIN STOCK SALES. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., iLtd., report having offered a good yarding of sheep at Levin on Tuesday. Bidding was slow, and several lots were passed at auction, but an entire clearance was made at the end of the sale. Quotations: Light fat wethers 34s Id to 37®; forward weifchers 'tio '33s Dd; store wethers to 27s 3d to '31s 6d; mixed age ©wee ijh lamb 265; m.s. hoggets 19s 6d, 19s 7d, 20s lid, 22s 6d to 245; cull hoggets 6s; fat heifers £10 7s.

ADDTN'GTON MARKETS. Christchurch, August 8. The double market in view of the Grand National holidays next week brought forward the finest collection of prime fat cattle and sheep ever seen in a public salya'rd in the [Dominion. The attendance was also large. Southland was well represented with both cattle and sheep. There was a shap advance in the value of beef, tho yarding averaging over 60s per lOOlbs. The top price was £62 for an exceptionally large prime Shorthorn bullock sent in ihy J. Garland. Another large and prime bullock (Hereford) was sold on behalf of iMr P. Anderson at £47. Many ,locally»-bred steers sold at £30 and upwards. There was a great show of extra prime fat sheep. Prices for ordinary prime wethers showed an advance of 3s per head'. Fred. IB nil (Waddingtxm) again topped the market with his Rcmney-Shropshire and purebred Shropshire wethers, which sold at from £7 os to £12 10s. A. W. Rutherford junr., sold merino wetlierß at 57s which is a record for the yards. The average price frof fat sheep and fat cattle was also a record. A few of th<i now season's fat lambs met witli good competition. There was an easier demand for ewes in lamb, but store wethers and hoggets soldweU, as did store cattle. Pigs of all classes met a good sale, choppers selling up to £15 and baooners £6 Bs.