STOCK SALES

Matamata Record, Volume VI, Issue 475, 27 September 1923, Page 2

STOCK SALES

MATAMATA.

The Farmers' Auctioneering Company held their usual sale at Matamata on Wednesday. There was a fair varding, being principally represented. Prices for dairy stock showed a sharp rise on previous sales. Prices wcvo: __Dairv cattle: Heifers, Jerseycross,, good, ,m .5s to £l4 15« MM-horn-cross, medium, £9 to til JUS, others, £5". to £B;"<lairy cows, backward, SA- 10s to £6 10s; heavy fat cows, £lO 2s Gd to fill- ss; others, £t 15s- to £H 2s (id; fresh-conditioned cows £2 iSs to £3 Gs; store cows, £1 10s to'£2; yearling steers, £3 2s; yearling heifers, good, £3 4s to £3 7s; others, £1 18s to £3 4s. Sheep: Fat ■hoggets, £1 Kss Gd: fat sheep, £J Ma to £2 Is; forward hoggets. £1 Gs Gd. Pigs: Weaners, good, £1 to £1 ;>s; others, 14s to 17s; slips, good, £1 10s to £1 16s; porkers, £2 5s to £2 12s. THE LONDON MARKET. The New Zealand Meat Producers Board has received the following cable from its London office, dated September 21, 1023, advising Smithfield delivered prices at that date as Prime Canterbury lamb: 29/361b, llgct poi' pound; 37/421b, lid per pound; 43/501b, 10?.d per pound. Second-quality lambs: lOgd per pound. Other selected brands of lamb: 29/ 801 V Ud per pound; 37/421b, lOgd per pound. . Mutton: Light-weight wethers, B a d per pound; medium-weight wethers, 8d per pound; heavy-weight wethers, 7id per pound; ewes, Old per pound. Ox Beef: Fores, 2M per pound; hinds, 43d per pound. There is a slightly better demand for lamb and beef. Mutton slow of sale.