BEEF PRICES AT FRANKTON EXCEPTIONALLY LOW

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 381, 16 November 1932, Page 6

BEEF PRICES AT FRANKTON EXCEPTIONALLY LOW

Hamilton, Tuesday. Beef quotations showed no improvement at the weekly stock sale at the Frankton yards to-day, when prices were again exceptionally low. There was a large yarding but competition was dull. The values received at the past two as low as they have ever been at the Frankton yards. ; 'There was a heavy yarding of sh'eep when good quality wethers sold on a par with last week's rates. Poorer softs, however, met with a dull sale and were hard to quit. Ewes came forward in good quality and values imjproved slightly. Pigs were penned in average numbers and quotations had a firming tendency. _ Quotations. — Sheep: Prime fat shorn wethers. 11s to 12s; medium fat shorn wethers, 9s 6d to 10s 6d; Prime woolly ewes, 6s to 7s 6d; prime shorn ewes, 5s 6d to 6s 3d; medium siiorn ewes 4s 6d to 5s 6d; woolly hoggets, 10s 6d to 11s 6d; shorn h'oggets, 9s 6d to 10s 6d; fat lambs, 10s 6d to 12s- 6d. Beef: Heavy fat bullocks, £5 15s to £6 10s; lighter fat bullocks, £4 10s to £5 10s; heavy fat cows and heifers,; £3 18 to £4 5s; lighter fat cows £2 10s to £3 12s; light fat cows, £1 17s 6d to £2 5s. Pigs: Baconers, 30s to 41s; porkers, 26s to 28s; weaners, 10s to 12s.