Markets and Money

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 233, 21 December 1927, Page 13

Markets and Money

(Continued.) CHRISTMAS OFFERING AT WESTFIELD MARKET

HEAVY LAMB OFFERING BEEF PRICES FIRM Lamb should be a popular Christmas dish for Aucklanders if to-day’* yarding at Westfield is any indication. Well over 3,000 came forward. Over 900 cattle were yarded and values in this section were maintained practically on a par with late rates. To-day saw a double market at Westfield with sellers catering for the Christmas demand and allowing for the fact that there will be no sale next week. Lambs predominated. There was barely an average summer yarding of sheep and no sign of an attempt at a double market in the cattle section. Every available pen, however, was crowded with lambs. The quality of the lamb offering was ’ ixed and. while there were many prime lots offered, others, again, looked as if they could have done with considerably more topping off. No extra heavy prime cattle came forward. The yarding, without exception, medium and light-framed, the latter sorts coming forward in considerably Skater numbers than usual. Thus, while actual per head quotations may appear lower, there was really no quotable change in the market. The operations of export buyers, despite what at imes was rather spiritless competition .'OTn the butchers, kept prices up to late eve } s * Even on the smaller-framed d ttle there was not the finish usually associated with Westfield’s most sought alter lines. While most lines carried 4 »ummer store condition; on the ajority little time or feed had apparfn *u been w *sted in getting them up E, the market. Mr»o ?• enian d for cow and heifer beef hmited and the market toward the v,;®* by IDs to 25s a head. Many ***** passed in. Well-finished prime thlrS met a Rood demand when H s f opened, but values fell away as T ii-progressed, and toward the close ersa Were * ewe r than half a dozen buy- \ a!a° Un( * auctioneer. Heavy prime • i frorn £4 to .£4 16s jnedium, Myaii hght and well-finished, V'j >. *2 Ss to £2 18s; small, 30s to s ’ rres} h-dropped and small, 3s to ideally the only line worthy of sortsor5 or fav °t»rable comment came Pm©* * rom Motiti Island on account hoi-I SOU ® ros * The line comprised 40 vHin Well -finished P. A. and Hereford ke#n Um wei «*t cattle that met with . •J competition up to £l3 15s and cerr OP r "onltl kill out into choice beef s.U k her Auckland butchers or over- '»? buyers’ purposes. other top-priced lines came ■v,, .bear Auckland sellers and there ■ uttle offered on account of Waff aru l North Auckland graziers. No *'"?J, ame from further afield. the vendors receiving top prices £irt - ”• A. Price. Papatoetoe. £8 10s to • > '* : A. Robertson, Mangere. two and Vs- JL* ar -old bullocks, £8 12s 6d to £l2 r - Harding. ten well-finished, mum-weight, prime bulocks averaged :; y« ,w 3d: - McLaughlin* Papatoetoe, • in * sold from £8 5s to £lO 15s. 01ce Pfime bullocks made to £l3 15s: ijfj prime bullocks, £lO 17s '<vw« ss; smaller-framed prime buln u».de £9 to £9 10s; choice prime IS~ (W-I. steers from £4 12s 6d to £6 15s; j.: n ; sorts of rimers, to £5 17s 6d. me female cattle section, also, no lirt* # heavy prime came forward, and cattle predominated. Choice but not extra big-framed or heifers, made £S 12s 6d; mediumprime, young cows and heifers but * from £6 17s 6d“ to £7 12s 6d; small (mJ f b n me, old cows and heifers. £5 7s about nrime made from ton* 16 J-f’A. *k*ep market opened in good * - Va iue® if anything slightly in < xtrat v - of , late rates. In the first row f 4w,v° I *'framed wethers, on account 2V5 bur & .Ltd., not over prime, made from *>j Pr *me 4-tooth wethers sold at ’ rn 24s to 265.

SOUTHERN EXCHANGES

To-day.—Sales ! " < ~'° m mercial Bank of AusJiia sd; National Insurance,