ADDINGTON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1939, Page 3

ADDINGTON

ALL ROUND EASING IN VALUES. EXCEPTIONALLY HEAVY ENTRIES (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. November 15. Exceptionally heavy entries were forward on the resumption of (he weekly Addington stock market today after the Cup Week holiday, and there was an all-round easing in values. Fat sheep met with the biggest decline, though fat and store cattle, fat and store pigs, vealers and dairy cows were all easier. A factor in the heavy penning;; is the continued dry weather, fat stock sellers having little feed to rely on and potential buyers of store stock being afraid of the enminuance of dry weather. All classes of store sheep were represented, wethers from the Chatham Islands figuring largely, and selling at up to 19s 7d. out of the wool. Local coarsc-woolled ewe hoggets sold at up Io 25s 9d. and the best owes and lambs Io 14s Id, all counted. There was a slight easing in values for spring lambs, the small entry selling at up to 9d a lb. About 11000 other sheep were penned, including close on 1000 from the Chathams, and several truck lots from the south. An overflow brought I prices back by 5s a head for shorn me-1 dium-weight and inferior ewes, to 4s i for heavy sorts, and to 3s Gd for weth-I ers. Sheep in wool met with a still I easier sale. Best wethers made from I 28s to 355, shorn and medium 24s to i 28s. and secondary down to 17. Good ewes, shorn, ranged from 22s to 265. | and ordinary and light from 18s down 11 to 12s for very light-conditioned sorts. Five hundred and twenty fat cattle were penned, valued being down by an | average of 20s a head except for a few of the primest sorts. Best steers made I from £lB to £24. medium down to I £l5. and light down to £ll. Heifers | ranged, for better sorts, from £l3 to j £l5, and cows from £l2 to £l4. ;■