Stock Values Higher

Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 4, 5 January 1940, Page 10

Stock Values Higher

WEDNESDAY’S SALE AT LEVIN Good yardings of stock came forward for the first salo of the New Year, held in Levin on Wednesday. There was | spirited competition throughout and j practically a total clearance was effeet|ed at prices in advance of those ruling before tlio holidays. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., submit quotations as under: — Pigs. —Medium porkers, £2 lUs, £2 11s, £2 13s, £2 15s; heavy do., £2 16s 6d, £2 17s Od, £3, £3 2s 6d; baconers, £3 ss, £3 7s, £3 Bs, £3 10s, £3 13s; weaners, 12s, 14s 15s, 16s 6d; stores, 26s 6d, 30s, 33s 6d, 355. Sheep.—Fat ewes, 15s 9d, 16s 3d, ISs; fat wethers, 18s 9d, ,19b 3d to 22s 9d; fpt lambs, 16s lOd, 17s 2d, ISs 6d 1o 24s 8d; fat wether ewes, to 24s 6d; store Jambs, 6s 7d, 7s 3d, 9s 9d, 11s 4d, t 16s 9d. Cattle.—Vcalers, £2 17s 6s, £3, £3 2s 6d, £4 7s Od; weaners, £4, £4 7s 6d, £4 13s, £4 15s; fat P.A. and Hereford cows, £7 ss, £7 17s 6d, £8; light fat cows (ex-dairy), £4 2s 6d ;j £4 7s 6d, £4 10s, £4 15s, £5, £5 15s 6d; heavier do., £6, £6 12s 6d to £7 2s 6d; fat heifers, £4 15s, £5 7s 6d to £7; store cows, £2 10s, £2 15s, £2 16s; potter Dulls. £3, £4, £4 10s; springing heifers, £6 10s to £7 10s. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report ..aving sold at prices as under: — Pig. —Light porkers, 355, £2 4s, £2 7s, £2 9s 0d; medium do., £2 12s, £2 15s, £2 16s; heavy do., £2 18s, £3, £3 3s; baconers £l'. 6s, £3 9s, £3 12s; choppers, £2 ss, £2 13s Od, £2 15s 6d, £3, £3 2s 6d, £3 3sj weaners, 11s 6d to 13s; slips, 17s.