FRANKTON STOCK SALE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 563, 16 January 1929, Page 10

FRANKTON STOCK SALE

BEEF VERY FIRM Auctioneering firms report on the weekly sale held in the Frank ton stock yards as follows: Dalgety and Company, Ltd.: —There was a moderate yarding of beef, which sold at slightly higher rates than last week. Best young cows and heifers made £lO to £ll 7s; medium-weight cows and heifers, £S 10s to £9 7s 6d; inferior and light cows, £6 15s to £8 7s 6d; runners, up to £6 7s; vealers, £2 14s; dairy cattle sold as usual. There ■were very few store cattle yarded, which sold at late rates. Fat sheep sold at late rates. Prime fat wethers sold at up to 31s 9d; medium wethers, 31s; forward wethers, 27s 6d to 295. There was a large yarding of store sheep and lambs, which attracted a large number of buyers from all parts of the district, and prices were the highest this season so far. Romney woolly mixed-sex lambs sold at up to 22s Id; medium and small woolly lambs, mixed sexes, ISs 8d to 18s lid; shorn forward rape lambs, 23s 2d: cull lambs, 15s to 16s 3d; 400 5-year-old ewes, ex East Coast, brought 265; 163 2, 4 and 6th ewes, 35s sd; 153 failing mouth ewes, 18s; 66 ditto, 14s 6d. Pigs.—A lai'ge yarding of both baconers and porkers, prices being very firm; a little in excess of last week’s rates. A fai* average yarding of store pigs, which met with a keen demand.