LATE COMMERCIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 463, 19 September 1928, Page 13

LATE COMMERCIAL

WESTFIELD STOCK SALE BEEF MARKET STEADY Good quality ox beef at Westfield to-day met with steady competition. Values showed little quotable change compared with last, week’s market, but a decidedly easier tendency was noted at times. Auctioneers’ quotations for choica ox are held at 455, although only special lines made within 2s of this figure. The ox beef yarding comprised a large percentage of medium-weight well-finished cattle drawn largely from the Southern part of the province, Waikato vendors predominating. Northern, Bay of Plenty and King Country vendors, the Southern part of the province, Waikato vendors predominating. Nothing of outstanding quality came in from the North or the Bay of Plenty. W. Vosper, Cambridge, topped the market with heavy prime choice quality bullocks, which made to £l9 17s 6d. The top-priced line went to T. Baster, Ponsonby. A very even line of 20 mediumframed well-finished P.A. steers on account Perham and Larsen, Aka Aka Plains, met with keen competition at from £l4 to £ls. A line of 32 choice quality medium t° heavy-weight steers, on account A. J. Finlayson, Paparoa. made to £lB 7s W. The line averaged £l7 Os 6d. Seventeen medium to big-framed biHlocks. showing good finish but not prime, on account J. R. Self, •Papatoetoe, made to £lB 17s 6d. Twenty well-finished, but not overfat medium-framed Shorthorn steers, •a account J. Mclntyre. Aka Aka fjaina, made from £ls 10s to £l6 17s Small choice quality steers from the same vendor made £l4 ss. Sixteen medium-framed solid prime J™* 8 * on account Ben Reed, Wuerenga, from £l4 15s to £l7 10s. feix well-finished medium-weight steers, on account W. Vosper, averted £l7 10s. One truck of similar steers, on ac- ( C. J. Robertson, Otaua, made £l7 to £lB 17s 6d. The cow and heifer offering was a quality one and met Vj? a ve ry dragging sale. f 0p price in the section was secured sk tW ° exw Ptionally heavy big-boned Wi°^ iorn cows on account W. I-I. i* I>aeroa » which made £l7 2s 6d t w respectively. _-v,’ Matthews, Otahuhu, was responth* ° r k es t quality offering of fninM. * with 20 exceptionally choice m edium-framed young cows na heifers from the Hawke’s Bay disict The line made from £l3 10s to 2s 6d. tha a^ Ves met with keen competition and rr,. market had a very firm tone. n re was a substantial increase in the c ,^ enta & e of well-nourished young off J" 3,5 compared with the large ra] °f inferior finished and small es seen at late sales. Butchers Tk the - stron Sest buyers. Severn! blgrffest yarding of sheep for + rai weeks comprised a largo perag:e of big-framed wethers. Heavy cre-Tt* e ' v ’es were also yarded in at I* nuj nbers. The market opened Qufrti wee k’s advance rates, but SVT . fi , K . y eased to up to 3s below last in rates - Several lots were passed 3 d \ J? ea yy Prime ewes made to 40s ’ mg-framed wethers to 44s 6d. SOUTHERN EXCHANGES TO-DAY’S sales Press Association *£y****h urc h. —On ’Change; ChristTrams, 51 per cent., 1944, £99 10s; r,, 10 ! 13 - Bank of Australasia (£3O pd.), yjy. Balgety and Co., £ls 2s; New (*» r! , Refrigerating (£1 pd.>, 39s 3d EU.. Carll on Breweries. £2 6s Cd; w^H tro^Zinc (Pref.), £3 33s 7d; Hay*ras Pictures, 39s 9d.