STOCK MARKET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 November 1939, Page 3

STOCK MARKET

MASTERTON SALE. FAT SHEEP PRICES LOWER. The Associated Auctioneers report on the above sale as follows: —A fair yarding of sheep and cattle came forward and were submitted to a small attendance. Fat sheep met a dragging market with prices slightly lower than last sale while stores unless they were in forward condition were not wanted, several pens being passed. The few cattle sold at late rates. The following were the prices:— Fat sheep: Fat wethers. 21s 6d, light do 18s to 18s 9d; fat ewes, woolly, 18s, shorn, 10s 3d, 12s 4d, 12s 9d. to 14s; fat hoggets, 20s 3d, 21s Cd to 21s 9d. Store sheep: 4-th wethers fat and forward, very good, 20s Id; 2- and 4-th wethers. 14s 6d. 15s to IGs 4d; 2-th ewes with lambs, all counted. 15s 7d; s.m. ewes do. Us sd; ewe hoggets, 19s: woolly 4-th ewes 20s Bd. Cattle: Fat P.A. heifers. £7 2s Gd, Jersey cows £3 to £3 3s: vealers 21s to 275; Jersey bull £5 ss. ADDINGTON SALE. FAT CATTLE PRICES DOWN. (By Telegraph—Press Associat’on.) CHRISTCHURCH. November 22. Though fairly steady and useful rain, the first, for weeks, fell today, it did not have much response in the market for store stock at Addington. Store sheep maintained last week’s rates for the best classes of ewes, lambs and hoggets, but secondarj' and inferior sorts were hard to quit. Fat lambs, of which the entry was too big, eased, and in the fat sheep section good wethers showed an advance. A heavy entry affected the fat cattle sale, good beef being down by 10s to 15s. Porkers were firmer, but baconers were easier. The store sheep yarding was about normal. The sale for good linos was about on a par with last week's reduced rates, but ordinary or unfinished sorts were hard to sell and many pons were passed. Ewes and lambs ranged from 10s to 13s, all counted. A wellfinished line of two-tooth halfbred and three-quarterbred shorn ewes made 235, with two-tooth shorn wethers at 16s. and medium sorts from 9s 8d to 13s. The fat lamb yarding of 4000 was too big for the butchers, and the sale eas-

cd off. Medium and prime lambs sold well at between 8d and 9d a lb. with heavier sorts al slightly less. The fat sheep entry was 5500. 4000 fewer than for the previous week. There were few linos from the south, but there was a good showing of Chatham Islands sheep. The market was erratic, bat there was an improvement of up to is Gd a head for wethers. One line of Chatham Islands wethers sold from 32s lOd to 37s 4d. averaging 35s 3d. Prime heavy wethers old to 33s (id. ordinary to 255, and light to 21s: mid prime heavy wethers sold Io 33s (Id. ordinary light to 15s. The fat entile entry was again large mid, with a lessoning in quality, opened slackly at a lower level. There were individual eases in which last week's values were maintained, but on the average the market was down 15s. Steers at £23 2s 6d topped the market. Primo heavy steers made to £2O. prime heifers to £l5 12s fid. and prime cows to £ll 15s. with medium cows at from £8 15s to £9 15s. A fairly heavy entry of fat pigs was submitted, but the penning included a big proportion of over-fattened sorts. Good-class sorts showed an advance ol 2s to 3s a head, but for the others there was no change. Choppers made from £2 13s Gd to £6 (is; medium porkers, 51s Gd to 56s Gd. with the average price a lb being' 7d to 7 : ,'d: light baconers from 59s fid to 69s fid. and heavy from £3 19s fid to £4 4s fid.