WESTFIELD

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 429, 13 January 1933, Page 6

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The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report on the. sale as follows: — Ox beef was penned in less than average numbers. There was a ready demand and values improved for prime steers 10s to 15s per head. Cow and heifer beef penned in average numbers also sold readily with values for .prime quality also improving Extra choice ox sold to 10s per 1001b; choice and prime ox, 16s to 18s; ordinary and plain, 13s to 15s; prime young cow and heifer beef, 14s to 18s; ordinary cow beef, 10s to 13s; heavy prime steers, £6 10s to £7 2s 6d; lighter prime steefs, £5 15s to £6 7s 6d; light prime steers, £4 10s to £5 10s; unfinished and small, £3 10s to £4 7s 6d; heavy prime young cows and heifers, £4 5s to £5 5s; lighter, £3 5s to £4 2s 6d; light cows, £2 5s to £3 2s 6d; other cows, £1 5s to £2 2s 6d. Sheep were yarded in average numbers. There, was a ready demand with values firming for all classes of prime mutton. Heavy prime wethers made 14s 6d to 15s 6d; medium prime wethers, 13s to 14s 4d; light prime wethers, 11s to 12s 9d; small and unfinished wethers, 8s to 10s 9d. Heavy and medium prime ewes, 7s to 8s 3d; iight prime ewes, 6s to 6s 9d; inferiorly fatted ewes, 3s to 5s 6d; prime hoggets, 9s 6d to 13s 6d. Lambs were pended in large. numbers. Here also there was a ready demand and values were very firm at late rates. Medium to heavy prime lambs made 10s to 14s 3d; light prime and small, 8s 6d to 9s 9d; store lambs, 5s to 8s. There was a heavy yarding of pigs which sold under steady competition at values firm on last week's quotations. Choppers sold from £1 to £1 12s 6d; heavy and medium baconers, from £1 18s to £2 4s; light baconers and heavy porkers, from £1 10s to £1 16s; medium porkers and light porkers, from £1 to £1 8s. Values for store pigs were easier, large stores realising 12s to 16s; slips, 7s to 11s; weaners, 3s to 7s. Calves were penned in average numbers. Values were firm, but eased considerably in the concluding stages of the sale.. Runners sold at £1 5s to £2 7s 6d; heavy vealers, £1 16s to £2 4s; medium, £1 8s to £1 14s; light, £1 to £1 6s; smaller, 10s to 18s; small and fresh-dropped, 3s to 7s.