AUCTIONEERS’ REPORT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 126, 27 April 1940, Page 5

AUCTIONEERS’ REPORT.

The Associated Auctioneers report: Yard in in both sheep and cattle were smaller than of late. In the store sheep section the offering comprised 3600 mainly breeding ewes and blackface lambs, with an odd pen of wethers. The breeding ewes were of better quality and condition than recent offerings, and comprised mainly four and five-year-old ewes with two or three pens of two-tooth ewes all running with Southdown rams. Much interest was taken in the reliable lines, and good competition was forthcoming, with prices fully linn on late rates. Specially advertised linos on account of Mr R. MacDonald came forward in excellent order, and the four and five-year-old ewes made 20s 4d to 24s 2d, two-tooth ewes, 29s 4d.and mixed age 255. An entry of 700 good-conditioned woolly black-face lambs from the Mangawcka district also sold well, realising up to 18s 4d. The fat sheep yarding totalled 600, mostly ewes, and a good sale resulted with ewes and wethers slightly hardening and lambs selling at late rates. A small offering of cattle came to hand, only four or five small pens of run cattle, and these changed hands at recent values. The fat cattle section was a small one of 86, mostly station sorts. There was no appreciable change in values on late sales, arid the yarding was mostly light-weight cattle. A small offering of 54 dairy cattle found the autumn calvers in good demand and good quality cattle made good values. A few pens of potter cows' found values unchanged. The following is the range of prices:—Fat lambs, 18s Bd, 19s 3d, 22s 3d to 23s Id ; fat owea, 12s 7d, 15s 6d. 17s, 18s 6d, 21s Id, 225; fat wethers, 19s, 23s 6d. 24s 6d, 25s lOd, to 26s Id; 2-th. ewes, r.w. S.D. r.. 26s 3d, 27s 3d, 29s 3d, 29s 4d ; 4-6th. ewes, r.w. S.D., 295; 6-th. ewes. 23s lOd, 24s 2d ; 4-yr. ewes, 245; 4-syr. ewes, 20. s 4d, 23s lOd, 24s 2d; 5-yr. ewes, 14s Bd, 15s 60, 16s; aged ewes, 10s; goon woolly b.f. lambs, 16s 8(1, 18s 4d; others, 11s, 11s Bd, 14s 3d ; woolly wether lambs, 16s 4d, 17s 6d ; small wether lambs, 5s 1(1, 7s 3d, 10s 6d ; woolly ewe lambs, 20s 3d ; medium, 13s 6d, 14s 6d, 15s 9d; small, 7s. Fat P.A. and Hereford cows and heifers, £5 ss. £5 15s, £6; fat P.A. arid Hereford bullocks, £7 17s 6d. £8 ss, £9; fat cows ex dairy, £3 14s, £4 10s, £5 to £6 10s; fat heifers ex dairy, £4 10s, £5 ss. £5 10s; runners, £3 2s 6d, £4 10s, £5 2s; vealers, £l ss, £2 10s; 20 months P.A. steers, £5 6s; 20 months P.A. heifers, £2 7s; coloured 31-year bullocks, £7; dairy heifers, calved, £4 15s. £5 15s, £6; cows and heifers at drop, £7, £B. £9. to £ll 12s 6d ; cows and heifers, spring calvors, £4 10s to £5 15s; store Jersey cows. 27s 6d, 355, £2 10s, £3 to £3 17s 6d; potter bulls, £4.