BEEF MARKET FIRM

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 807, 30 October 1929, Page 11

BEEF MARKET FIRM

Late Commercial

WESTFIELD STOCK SALE Westfield. 2.30 p.m. The ordinary smooth running of the Westfield fat stock sale was upset today as a result of the slaughtermen's strike. | The sale was delayed at the end of I the ox beef section for over an hour. | Prices, however, held very firm at late I rates, and there was a steady demand [ for good best ox beef at up to 43s n. hunlrecl; best cow sold at up to 40s ! a hundred. • An offering of approximately 300 [ head of ox beef was drawn largely from | the Waikato. The quality, generally, was good, medium-weight, well-finished ; young steers predominating. Top price of the day was secured for a. line of heavy prime big-frimed bulI locks, on account of a local grazier, I which went to T. Raster, Ponsonby, I and E. Wilson, Eden Terrace, for .£l7 10s. Two trucks of heavy prime steers, on account H. E. Reed, Waerenga, mad© j up to £l6 10s. Sixteen extra, clioi<r handy-weight steers, on account W. Main, Tirau, made to £l4. averaging £l3 18s Id. Twenty-five heavy prime extra, choice quality steers, on account W„ Vosper, Cambridge, made from £6 to £l7, and averaged £l6 Is lOd. An average yarding of cows was made up of the usual percentage of dairy sorts. The demand for all well* finished cattle was steady at late rates. • Best young cows, not exceptionally j heavy, made up to £ll 17s 6d. - j of cows was influenced by the butchers’ strike, and prices registered an air of uncertain! \ Best runners mad* up to £8 10s, vealers to £4 16s. V start was riot made on the sheep 1 until after 2.30.