PRICES AT WESTFIELD

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 753, 28 August 1929, Page 11

PRICES AT WESTFIELD

Late Commercial

KEEN BEEF INQUIRY APPARENT VALUES FIRM SLIGHTLY Values at the weekly Westfield stock sale today were a trifle firmer and bidding for beef lines was keen. Several lines of choice steers sold at excellent prices. Alfred Lackland and Sons, Limited, reporting on tho sale, state that they penned beef to the number of 245, igainst 293 at the previous fat stock market. The yarding comprised 115 steers and 120 cows and lieifers. There "ere a few heavy cattle, but the quality generally vva& first class. Under keen competition the ratek irmed slightly. Extra choice ox beef sold at £2 4s 11001 b.: choice and fine ox beef, £2 Is *o £2 3s: secondary and plain. £1 18« to £2; fine young cow and heifer beef, £1 18s to £2 Is; ordinary cow beef, £1 14s to £1 17s. Extra heavy fine steers ranged in i"ice from £; 9 15s ; o £23 10s. The fitter price was gained for a steer •rom Mr. C. R. Morgan, of Matamata, he buyer being Mr. R. Stott, of Birkenhead. One exceptionally heavy sevenyear steer, from Mr. T. Corban, Hikutaia, realised £27. Mr. Thomas Baxter, of Ponsonby, was the buyer. Heavy prime steers brought £lB to -19 12s 6d; lighter prime steers, £l6 rt > £l7 17s 6d; light prime steers. £l4 •o £ls 17s 6d; small and unfinished, -11 to £l3 17s 6d; extra heavy -rim© cows and heifers, £ls 10s 10 £l4 15s: heavy prime M heifers, £ll 10s to £ls 8 6d; lighter prime cows >lfers. £9 to £ll 17s 6d: other kiliable cows. £5 10s to £8 17s Cd. The highest averages for steers ’.vere: Two from Mr. Charles Beard, senr.. ’ ape Colville, £2O: two from Mr. Pat ’’orban. Hikutaia. £23 12s 6d; 16 from •'lr. Morgan, Matamata, CIS Ss 3d; 19 f i’om Mr. C C Otwav. Te Akait. £l6 * 9d; 24 from Mr. W. Main,. Tirau. 12s Id; IB from Messrs. Ingle and 'ons, IVaiotir;*. £l4 Is lOd.

SOUTHERN EXCHANGES

TODAY’S SALES ’ Press Association Christchurch.— Bank of New South Wales, 68s 6d: 68s 5d; Union Bank of Australia, £l3 ”s:' mi't.al Building Soi'ty. 16s Orl; V. and O. deterred stock. 2d)* 1 ' Nrw z, ' :i!il »d Refr.-gerating (10s SfiK-ktim i.'oul (pref.i. 4s tid: New Tjand Br. wei i. s sis lad: Tirnuru Brcw#7 (5s paid), 8s 11d; .Mahakipawa. 4d. Reported: Commercial Bank of Australia new, fully paid, late sale yesterday). J M; BUctro. Zinc (ord., cum tiiv ). 39s , Wellington. Reported: Commercial ij“ k Of Australia (ord.), 30s I'd: Gear 43s kd: Sharland and Co. (pref.), T 1 ’ On ’Chance New Zealand Breweries 2Ss Sd