WESTFIELD REVIEWED

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 144, 8 September 1927, Page 2

WESTFIELD REVIEWED

CHOICE QUALITY STEERS SHEEP MARKET FIRM Yesterday a yarding of mostly choice prime ox beef met with a keen demand at West! slightly easier than last week. Cow and heifer beef, short yarded, made higher values for the better quality beasts. Fat sheep, comprising for the most part light and medium weight lines, made from firm to slightly better prices. An average yarding of ox beef conprised mostly well-finished cattle with only a small percentage of dairy sorts in evidence. The lines which secured the top price, big beely steers from W. Vesper Cambridge, at £l6 ss, was slightly better buying than the highest-priced animal at £IS 5s sold lhe week before. A short yarding in the female section of approximately 200 cattle saw mostly light-framed dairy sorts come forward. The market was firm for the poorer quality sorts, and registered a decided improvement on last week for the better quality lines. Tin line which topped the market at £lO 10s—a truck of speyed Hereford heifers on account of a Waikato grazier—con: prised < hoice prime beasts not too fat or heavy in the bone. The sheep market was slightly erratic. Choice prime, not excessive ly fat, bigframed wethers on account «>f W. Livingstone. Te Kauwhata, topped the market at 455. Medium and smaller prime i wethers made to 39s 9d. small and just killable sorts made to 33s 6d. Highest price for ewes was secured l»v Sutton and Sutton, a pen of big-framed prime ewes on account of these vendors making to 39s Another pen of fat, though ill-sorted ewes, which made to 38s 3d, were 2:s to 3s ahead of their real value. Srnal.er choice prime ewes made to 345. A small yarding of tinder 50 spring lambs made from 19s to 335. the latter price being secured for a pen of lambs on account of Fred Stephens, Clevedon. Pigs came forward short of requirements. A good demand existed throughout, and quotations show a recovery n values for all classes. Good prime choppers sold at £3 5s to £4 17s; extra heavy prime baconers, up to £3 19s; heavy prime baconers, £3 12s to £3 15s: medium bacon ers, £3 Ss to £3 10s: lierht, £3 3s to 1 6 s; heavy p< rl ers, medium, £2 14s to £2 17s; light, £2 Ss to £2J.2s: small and unfinished, £1 19s to £2 7s. The few stores also found ready buyers, small and good-conditioned making up to £1 ISs; good slips, £1 Ss to £1 12s; weaners, ISs to £1 3s.