Late Commercial—

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 593, 20 February 1929, Page 11

Late Commercial —

FURTHER DECLINE IN BEEF WESTFIELD STOCK SALE WESTFIELD, 2.30 p.m. Beef met with a very erratic demand at Westfield to-day, and, in spite of a smaller aggregate yarding of approximately 540 head, a further drop in values was registered. Auctioneers quote best ox to 375, and best young cow and heifer beef from 30s to 32s 6d. The market was very irregular and, toward the close of the sale when there was a bigger attendance of Che smaller butchers, prices for odd lots tended to rise above the general average. At the start and for tHe greater part of the Kile of steers, bidding was very dead. The steer offering of approximately 210 head was made up mostly of wellfinished medium-weight cattlo drawn largely from near-Auckland graziers. Cattle offered at the close of last week’s sale on account of Campbell and Williams, Putaruru, and passed in at £l4 17s 6d, topped the market to-day, the best pen going to A. W. Scotting, St. Heliers, for £ls 10s. Another pen on account of the same vendors made £ls 2s 6d. The steers were exceptionally heavy prime, but, even so, made one of the best sales of the day. A line of 24 big-framed well-finished but not over-fat bullocks on account 11. E. R. L. Wiley, Mauku, made from £l3 12s 6d to £ls ss. A line of 45 specially choice prime Herefords on account of Patterson Bros., Moutiti Island, made from £ll to £l4 12s 6d.

The quality of the cow and heifer Offering was mixed, there being a big percentage of well-finished young station cows and heifers. One of the choicest lines of the day came from Perham and Larsen, Aka Aka, making £ 5 17s 6d for small light heifers to tlO 7s 6d for specially well-finished medium-framed heifers. Big-framed heavy prime steers, generally, made to £ls 10s; medium, £ll j° 15a; light and small, from V'ery heavy prime young cows and heifers made to £ll 17s 6d; heavy to £lO 10s; medium, £7 7s 173 6d » very light and unfinished. ,rom £3 17s <>d. The market for cows and heifers aeia a further easing tendency toward e close. A line of 16 specially choice .oung Hereford cows and heifers, on account of Hutchison Bros., Taneatua, thade from £8 15s to £9 ss. GiUves met with a steady sale at ite rates. No heavy runners were >ardetl. Runners made £3 10s to £5; heavy vealers. £4 10s to £5 Is: “tedium, £3 18s to £4 Ss; light, £3 * £3 16s; smaller, £2 10s to £3 4s; small and fresh-dropped, 8s to £2 and plain, £1 5s to £2 6s. The market for a very short yarding of sheep opened with prices very firm a * l a te rates, a buyer for shipment to the Islands helping to keep prices up. hi the first dozen pens, a pen of 22 exceptionally heavy prime wethers, on ••count of a local vendor, made £ 1 lbs 3d. Exceptionally heavy prime “jaiden ewes went to the Auckland -Meat Company for £l 7s 3d. Inferior hnished ewes, of which there was a h >S Percentage, were selling from 15s upward. SOUTHERN EXCHANGES TO DAY’S SALtS Press Association Wellington.— Reported: 4i per cent, bonds. 1935, £100; Commercial Bank of -Australia (ord.), 2£)s 2d; New Zealand w^r antee Corporation (ord.), 8s 9d; Wellington Meat Kxport (ord.). 12s 6d; Blenheim Oil Well, 37s 6d; Wellington -as (ord!), 31s; Gear Meat, 43s 9d; Well--r*U 0n ’Woollen (0r.1.), £7 5s 6d; British tobacco (Australia), ord.. 495. ..Chi-istchurch.—Sales: Tooth’s Brewery, r,- 14s 9d (two parcels); Mahakipawa, Is 4d (two parcels). 10d Uned,n ’ — Sale on 'Change: Waihi. 13s