BEEF PRICES STEADY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 771, 18 September 1929, Page 11

BEEF PRICES STEADY

■ate Commercial

WESTFIELD STOCK SALE WESTFIELD. 2.30 p.m. An aggregate beef yarding of 630 head or fat cattle, approximately 100 head more than last week, came forward to Westfield today. Prices held practically on a par with late rates. Choicest ox made up to 44s a hundred; choicest cow and heifer to 41s a hundred. The Quality of the offering allowed ttle room Lor special comment. A. rge section was only indifferently rushed, and there was a fair sprinkng of stores in both the cow and eer sections. Waikato and near-Auckland grazrs were the principal vendors; Buy i: Plenty and North Auckland lots ere hard to locate. There were few nes of big-framed heavy prime steers, ie greater part of the steer offering eing made up of average-framed tedium-finished cattle. The cow nd heifer offering, as usual at this mo of the year, was drawn largely om the dairy herds, but there was a ir percentage of attractively finished Jung cattle. Top price of the day was secured for line of heavy prime bullocks on acJunt K. Le Gallis, Tuahoa, which ade up to £2l for a single bullock >ld to T. Baster, Ponsonby. A line of 26 well-finished medium to ig-framed steers on account It. 11. Cayley, Tirau, made from £l6 15s to -20 10s. One truck of medium to heavyeight steers on account T. Murray, ’uakau. made from £l6 17s Cd to £l9 s 6d. Twenty-five handy-weight cattle on -count H. E. R. L. Wiles', Mauku, ade from £ls to £IS ss. Three trucks of small to mediumamed well-finished young steers on -count J. McGowan, Waiuku, made *ora £l4 to £lB ss. A line of 16 steers on account C. Robertson, Otau, made up to £lB i 6d. Medium-weight steers on account of aylor Bros - ., Taupiri. made from £ls * £l7 15s. Similar cattle on ac>unt N. K. Taylor, Taupiri, made to 17. Another heavy yarding of calves was ade up of a larger percentage of all-finished calves of from six weeks two months old. Prices held pracally at late rates. The market for cow and heifer beef as a little easier, especially toward ie close of the sale. Top price in ‘is section was secured for a line of ell-finished cows on account of A. • Wright. Mauku, which made up * £l6 for a single beast sold to C. ran 8. Newton. A specially choice uality line of 15 small-framed Here•J*d heifers on account of R. C. organ. Matamata, made up to £ll 6d for a pen sold to It. and W. iellaby. No heavy prime runners were rded. Best runners made to £ 7 s; heavy vealers. to £ 6 10s; medium. 3 to £4; six to eight-weeks-old veal- ». to £2 10s; small and fresh- • opped, 5s to 255. SOUTHERN EXCHANGES TODAY’S SALES Press Association Wellington.— Bank of New South Wales, *• Taupiri Coal, 2Ss 9d (ex rights); Osons Cement. 44s 3d. Dunedin.— National Mortgage, S6s 4d. Christchurch.—Ashburton Electric, 53 r cent., 1934, £lOl 10s; New Zealand eweries (bonds), 30s lid; British 49 S