BIG PRICES FOR STEERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1073, 10 September 1930, Page 10

BIG PRICES FOR STEERS

WESTFIELD STOCK SALE WESTFIELD, 2 pm. A heavier entry of ox beef at Westfield today was made up ot some of the best quality seen in the yards for some time. Prices for heavy prime cattle were inclined to be a litt.e easier, but, the market generally held at late rates. Best young ox made to 426 a hundred, best young cow and heifer beef made to 40s a hundred. Approximately 250 head were yarded in tr.e steer beef section. The averse©, quality was high, most lines being well l.nished and snowing eviaence 01 careful handling. The fact that mar.y lines were starting to show the usual spring “bloom ’ added to the attrac-. tiveness of the entry. The Waikato was again responsible for some of the best quality in the yart, several exceptionally well finished fines coming forward on account of South. Auckland clients. . A line of 40 good butchers cattle, not exceptionally heavy prime, on account of W. H. William*. Gisborne, averaged a shade under AL and made the only entry from out*Hf e the usual range drawn on for weetfield. _ . „ , Bidding was steady throughout, and most pens sold freely. Big fr&m heaw prime steers were not in so rouca demand and the market for these eona was inclined to be a little easier. Top price for the day was for a line of Show bullocks, on account A. E. Urquhart. Karaka; one exceptionally heavy prime beast \vhich*v‘ hang up at over thirteen hundred wento T. Collons. Avondale, for A-*-other beast in the same line wen P. F. Harris. Epsom, for £3l. ™ line averaged £l9 Is 3d. . flnrV A line of nine extra choice hea _ prime steers, the tops of a Um - in by a Waikato grazier, ma-e from £l7 15s to £2O. „ Thirty-one medium to hea'J P ! good butchers’ cattle on account ; Bros., Waitakaruru, made from 5s to £l6 Is. ott Fourteen handy-weight stee *■ j account H. E. R. L. Wily. Pukekohe. made from £l4 to £l4 ’ v^ ne d , A line of well finished medium-bon-j steers, on account Ring Bros.. Him* made from £ls 7s 6a to y A short yarding of 200 head of and heifers met with a stead> d ■ The Quality was better than that most recent sales. ethers Extra heavy prime s , ho " . Law generally made to boa J ]Ss seers. £ls to £2O; medium, £1- 1 to £l4 10s: light. £lO to *1- ferS heavy prime young cots _^ nd ' dium . made from £lO to £l3 a.. £S 2s 6d to £0 15P; light and from £0 10s; rough and unfiw*”* from £4. _ ~..t the i The market for *•** 1 best handy-weight sorts ot ‘ i a little easier. Top price in tion was secured lor an extra p. ir ker, prime runner on account ± . • \ i which went to A. •'Tatung and^ | St. Hellers, for £9 i prime vealers made to ao j(>s vealers generally made fro™. wellto £5; medium, from f®:weeksnourished fresh-dropped to i _ eX „ old calves made from I;as to porters for the bobby veal from 5s to 13s. , heifc l * Extra choice young cows and made to £ls.