WESTFIELD STOCK SALE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 451, 5 September 1928, Page 13

WESTFIELD STOCK SALE

EASIER TONE IN BEEF • A shorter aggregate yarding of beef at Westfield to-day met with a market which held practically on a par with late rates. In both the ox and cow beef sections, however, there was not quite’ the strength shown at late sales. Although drawn from most parts of the province, the quality of the yarding was well below the high standard set last week. This was particularly noticeable in the cow and heifer section where there was a big percentage of very mediocre quality cattle forward. While auctioneers’ quotations for ox beef are sustained at up to 465, there was an easier tone in the market. This trend was given greater prominence by the fact that the buyer for one of the biggest butchering firms practically withdrew from the market. Top price of the day was secured for a line of four local bullocks which made £22. Big boned not exceptionally prime bullocks on account Short, Matamata, made to £2l. Fourteen medium to heavy-weight hulocks on account C\ Hemmings, Tirau. made to £l9 17s 6d. H. Reed, Waerenga. was responsible for a line of well-finished medium to heavy-weight steers, which made to £l9 7s 6d, and averaged £lB 10s. Choice prime medium-weight steers on account C. Morgan, Matamata, averaged £ls 12s. Two trucks of good quality mediumheight bullocks on account C. Allen ttade to £lB 10s. Two trucks of choice quality light £ medium weight steers on account of Bing Bros., Waie.renga, made from £ls fo £lB 10s. The pride of the market in the cow heifer section came from the tending district. A line of 15 excepll°nally heavy young cows from those Parts sold on account of F. Matthews, ctahuhu, made to £l6 10s. A line of exceptionally choice prime Hereford heifers, also from the FeildV* istrict ’ made to 14 - young Holstein cows na heifers on account Lichenstein and made to £l4 10s. fi ! u market for light and inferior w»!** cows and heifers eased toard the close and several lines were Passed in.

not hcr heavy yarding of young •h m? ? ame forward. The market for to j by*' vealers showed a decline up -S a ead - Good prime vealers were and met with keen commotion.

n s k° r t yarding of sheep saw the first * open firm at late rates. In the coii / 0W heav y primo wethers on acm of Samson Bros., Te Kauwhata, ew 6 ? 9s Big-framed wethers not prime on account of and Jones, Te Kauwhata, made