BEEF UNCHANGED

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 954, 23 April 1930, Page 12

BEEF UNCHANGED

Late Commercial —

WESTFIELD STOCK SALE WESTFIELD, 2.30 p.m. A slightly easier tone was registered in the beef market at Westfield today; prices for well-finished cattle showed no quotable change, h'owever. Best ox made to 37s a hundred: best i cow to 33s a hundred; inferior and old cows for boning or canning made • around 19s a hundred. • An offering of approximately 331 | head of steers was made up mostly t>f light-weight cattle which made from £7 7s 6d to £9 10s; a few lines of heavy prime steers on account of such well-known graziers as Wm. Vosper j Cambridge, made from £l3 10s to £ 15 os. For the most part, however, it ! seems that the majority of the bigger ! * graziers of the Province are holding j back in the hope of better prices later i on in the season. The demand today was fairly well spread among buyers for the Auck- ' land butchering trade; exporters were I not operating. Although the average level of prices was below’ that at late j sales, the reason was not so much 1 the result of a fall in prices as it was due to an increased entry of small and indifferently finished steers Top price of the day was secured ! for a line of choice prime steers on account Wm. Vosper, Cambridge, which made up to £ls 5s for a pen which went to T. Raster, Ponsonby. One truck of solid prime steers on account H. E. Reed, Waerenga, made from £l4 17s 6d to £ls. Twelve medium to heavy prime Sueers on account AY. AY. McLaughlin. £14 at rs toe ' made from £ll 2s 6d to l rU( %L of choice Prime steers on account Chas. Stewart, averaged £l3 10s. A mixed line of light to heavy prime ! account F. AYaerc- ! nga, made from £7 7s 6d to £l3 An offering of approximately 332 j cows and heifers met with a steady demand; the quality of the offering ! was quite up to the average, with the i usual percentage of dairy sorts Top price in the section was secured to? i Wc-lIT y prime cow- on account John M } Hie, Papatoetoe, which sold to \ E - Rossrter, Papatoetoe, for £ll sc’ Ihe calf market showed, if any"-’ ' thing a further downward movement in prices Good sorts of vealers shM to £2 , 10s to smafl, 38, . to 48s. rough to plain. ISs to “S--runners made £3 to £5 ss. w ’ i An average entry of stud sheep \va« mostly of small and medium Prime wethers.