Markets and Money

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 255, 18 January 1928, Page 13

Markets and Money

(Continued). WESTFIELD MARKET

BETTER quality cattle

beef values firm

t With a firm market at •jSLid to-day, when better qualwe»tfle'a me forward, and a ,ty .t C hV demand was maintained Siußhout ‘he snle. t late sales, big lines from the •“Jeown graziers were not in evl,3t.know | vera i extra choice email were seen. Tlieee met with ’ p< k t /Improvement in the general qualTh® offering, combined with a bet- •>' the smaller butchers, 'ted at times to onvey the irnpresvl,d .set higher prices were ruling. Com--""iwith late sales, however, though par es were firm, no appreciable change waf the day was secured for T Si,e big-framed P.A. bullock on ac- » choke wx ln Ti ,. RU Th-- beast made ' Two trucks «»n account of this comprising well-finished medium rtidor, Yght bullocks, averaged £ll ’ " k- 1) Orr, Puketawa, was responk *— „ ne truck of medium-weight ohl« r s which made £ll. B. Reed, :nl , nea secured one of the best averutereng , wo trucka ~f steers at £l2. -’f hi light prime young steers, yarded heater numbers, than at other seaI the year, made from £o 10s to "•'■.A. Light and small framed medium weight'cattle made from £9 5s to £lO s The quality Of the cow and heifer If.*, generally was good artd, though ■attic were practically all odd lots a fair amount of attention had ■ ripntlv been paid to finish. . Waikato vendor was responsible for ... of the choicest cattle offered in Motion for some time with some '* -.11-finlshed young speyed beef which made from £S 7 s 6d to £9 ■ SH Good sorts of medium weight ' rns old COWS sold to £7 10s; small heifers sold from £5 12s 6d: other •J! orime cows and heifers sold from TTst £4 10s. , alves met with an easier demand I were decidedly easier. Choice II ene heavy vealers made to £3 19s; ’’Adiom vealers. 40 s to £5 ss; lighter. 30s ■l, 38s; small and fresh dropped. 15s to ,hort yarding of about three full rows of sheep comprised a large percentof ewes. Bidding was slow at the start and in he first half-dozen pens prime medium weight two-tooth wethers made from 25s , Sraalt'’ d framed light prime young ewes 1 Four'rows of lambs for the most part .eked the bloom of earlier offerings and my could have done with more finish. Exporters were the largest operators.