FRANKTON STOCK SALE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 233, 25 May 1932, Page 2

FRANKTON STOCK SALE

PIGS SHOW SLIGHT ADVANCE HAMILTON, Tuesday. Messrs Dalgety and Company Ltd. report having held their weekly stock sal'e at Frankton saleyards to-day. Fat Sheep: Thei'e was an average yarding of fair to good quality sheep which sold at slightly lower prices than last week. Good fat ewes made to 7/2, fair quality fat ewes 6/8 medium quality wethers 11/2 to 11/8, prime extra heavy woolly lambs to 14/-, ordinary fat lambs 11/-, light lambs 9/- to 10/-. Store sheep : A small yarding of aged ewes in lamb to Romney rams made 3/2, store lambs 5/10, cull lambs 2/11 to 3/1. In conjunction with the Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., we sold on account of Mr James Low purebred 4-tooth Romney ewes in lamb to stud Romney rams at 12/6, others 8/- to 10/6. Fat cattle: Th'ere was a large yarding and any alterations in prices were in favour of buyers, but generally late rates ruled. Prime heifers made from £2 2/6 to £3 6/6, fat cows 35/to £2 17/6, others 28/- to 34/-. Store cattle: Only a few pens of yearling heifers and boner cows which sold at late rates came forward. Dairy cattle were in fair demand for all good young cows in milk or at calving. We sold on account of Awaroa Estate cows at £7 5/- to £4 and others made £1 to £2 5/-. Springing heifers made to £3 15/-. Pigs: A medium yarding of both fat and store pigs came forward and sold at prices in advance of last week's quotations. Best haconers made £2 to £2 4/-, lighter ditto. £1 11/- to £1 19/-, heavy porkers £1 6/- to £1 9/-, medium porkers 18/- to £1 4/-, light porkers 12/- to 16/-, best stores 9/- to 13/-, choppers £1 19/-, slips 7/to 9/-, best weaners 7/6, others 4/- to 5/6.