STOCK MARKET
MARTINBOROUGH EWE FAIR.
BETTER TONE THAN AT MASTERTON.
Messrs Wright Stephenson and Co., Ltd., report:—We held a ewe fair at Martinborough yesterday when an entry of ewes well up to advertised numbers was submitted to a fairly good attendance. There was a far better tone about the sale than prevailed at Masterton on the previous day. Genuine aged lines created good competition and prices were in most cases above expectations. Old ewes were neglected and were all passed in. The following are our prices:—A/c. W. B. Martin, 6-yr. ewes, 15s 6d; 5-yr. ewes, 17s 7d, 4-yr. ewes, 19s lOd. A/c. Chas’. Smith, 2-th. ewes, 24s 9d. A/c. McGaffin Estate, 4-yr. ewes, 21s 2d; 5yr. -ewes. 14s Id; other vendors, 2-th. ewes, 21s to 23s 6d; 4 and 6-th. ewes. 19s 9d; 5-yr. ewes, 16s to 17s 6d. EKETAHUNA SALE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report;—A bigyarding of lambs came forward and met with a good demand from the large attendance. Buyers from outside districts were present, but competition from Manawatu buyers was quiet, a fair proportion of the entry going to the Wairarapa and Pahiatua districts. As has been the case throughout recent sales best lambs carrying condition met with ready sale at best late rates. Medium lambs improved a little in price. Weaner pigs, of which there was a fair entry sold readily up to 225. We report sales as follows: — Sheep: Store lambs, best b.f. rape lambs, 16s 2d, 14s to 12s lOd; medium do., 12s, 12s 5d to 10s; small, to 8s: woolly wr. lambs, good, 14s; medium, to 11s 6d; small, Bs, 6s 6d to 5s 3d; shorn wr. lambs, best, 14s 6d to Ils 3d; medium, 9s 8d; small do., 7s 4d to 8s; culls. 5s 2d to 3s; ewe lambs, best shorn, 19s; small woolly, 10s 9d; medium shorn. 13s 2d; wethers, 2-th. wethers, 15s lOd. 15s 9d, 14s Id; small 2th. do., 12s sd; ewes, 5-yr. ewes, 16s 6d; cull 2-ths., 15s 6d; rams, 1-sh. Southdown, £4 4s to Signs.; M.A. do.. 21 gns.; 3-sh. d 0.., £2 2s to IJgns. Pigs: Weaners, best, 225, 20s, 18s to 17s.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19390210.2.89
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1939, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
362STOCK MARKET Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1939, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in