ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9010, 20 December 1907, Page 3

ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET.

BV TELEGRAMI- --PRESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, December 19. At the Addington live stock market, owing to the Christmas holidays next week, there was a double market, and the entries in all were fairly large, and the attendance good. Prices for all descriptions of stock were inclined to be easier, the demand for beef being affected by the hot weather, and lambs were in over-supply, the export buyers not operating to any extent, and store sheep were dull of sale on account of the want of rain for pastures. The entry of store • sheep was the largest for some time past, but there were few buyers, and ■ a number of lines failed to change hands. Prices were decidedly lower than they were a few weeks ago. The yarding of fat lambs was a large one, and numbered between 2,000 and 3,000. The competition was confined chiefly to the butchers,,who were.buying their Christmas sup- < plies, but the size of the entry and the fact that the export buyers purchased only a few pens caused a further drop in prices. Tegs sold at lGs to 17s 6d, and extra to 18s; ordinary freezing weights, 13s to 16a; and light and unfinished lambs, 10s to 12s 6d. There was a large entry of fat sheep, including a fair proportion of really prime wethers and ewes. There were 398 head of fat cattle penned, the quality being mixed, and cows formed a considerable part of the entry. Owing to the hot weather the demand for Christinas purposes was not exceptional, and values showed a decline of fully Is per 1001b. Steers brought .. £7 to £l3; heifers, £5 5s to £8 7s 6d; and cows, £4 10s to £lO 10s, equal to 23s to 25s for prime, and 193 to 22s 6d for medium per 1001b. There was a medium entry of pigs, -and a rather better demand. Chopmade 50s to 70s; baconers, 48s '"to 60s (equal to 5d to 5Jd per lb); porkers, 36s to 46s (equal to 5Jd per lb); large stores, 26s to 325; weaners, . 13s to 17s;and suckers, 12sGd to 16".