STOCK MARKET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1938, Page 3

STOCK MARKET

EKETAHUNA SALE The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as follows on their Eketahuna sale held on Thursday. Our entry fell slightly short of advertised numbers, but we submitted 1227 sheep to a fair attendance, including buyers from the Wairarapa, Manawatu and Southern Hawke's Bay. The yarding consisted chiefly of lambs, with odd pens of breeding ewes and wethers. Quite a bright sale resulted, competition being mainly from local and Wairarapa. buyers. Prices, as compared with our previous sale, showed an improvement and a good clearance was effected. Breeding ewes showing any quality were in good demand. Weaner pigs were slow of sale. Prices were as follow: —Sheep:—M.A. ewes, r.w. S.D.. 265; 4 and 5-year ewes, r.w. S.D., 24s 3d; S.M. ewes, store condition, r.w. S.D., 17s 3d; failing mouth do., r.w. S.D.. 16s to 12s; fat and forward b. f. lambs, 17s; good b.f. store lambs, 14s; medium do., 12s. Best woolly wether lambs, 16s 2d, 15s 2d, 15s; medium do.. 12s 7d to 13s lOd; cull do., Bs* to 10s; woolly ewe lambs best, 22s 3d to 19s 6d; medium do.. 17s 6d, 16s Id to 16s; small do.. 14s Id; fat wethers, 24s Id; store do., 225. Weaner pigs, good, 7s to 6s.

At the Eketahuna sale on Thursday Dalgety and Co., Ltd., offered a medium entry of sheep, which met with a decidedly better sale. The tone of the market throughout was better and prices showed a hardening on recent reports. A total clearance was effected as follows:—S.m. ewes, r.w. S.D., 20s to 22s Id; low-conditioned s.m. ewes, r.w. S.D., 13s 7d to 15s; store ewes, 8s 9d to 10s.