LATE RATES MAINTAINED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 April 1943, Page 2

LATE RATES MAINTAINED

AT CARTERTON STOCK SALE. WEANER PIGS HARD TO QUIT. Messrs Wright Stephenson and 'Co., Ltd., report as follows on their Carterton sale yesterday:—A good yarding of sheep, cattle and pigs came forward. Prices were on a par with late rates, with the exception of weaner pigs which were very hard to quit. The following are some of the realisations:— Sheep: Fat wethers, 22s 6d, 23s 6d, 245, 25s 3d to 26s 7d; fat and forward wethers, 18s to 19s Gd; fat lambs, 21s to 22s 4d; fat maiden P.B. Southdown ewes, to 235: fat S.D. ewes, Ils to 11s 8d; fat ewes, 12s 6d to 16s; b.f. lambs, 13s Id, 14s 9d, 16s to 16s 8d ; w.w. lambs, 11s 6d, 13s 2d, 14s, 14s Id, 15s to 15s 9d; shorn wether lambs, to 14s Id; small W.W. lambs, 7s 3d, 8s 6d to 10s 6d; cull wether lambs, 3s, 4s, 5s to 5s 2d; 5 and 6-yr. ewes, 12s, 13s to 13s 8d; m.a. ewes, 7s, 8s 4d to 10s; small 2-th. ewes, to 17s 3d; woolly ewe lambs, to 15s 6d; small ewe lambs, 7s 3d, 9s 3d, 10s Id to 10s lOd; cull shorn ewe lambs, to 5s 2d; 1-shear S.D. rams, to 4gns.; aged S.D. rams, to Ign. Cattle: Fat P.A. cows, to £8 15s: fat Jersey steers, to £7; fat cows (ex-dairy), £5, £5 2s 6d, £5 6s, £5 10s, £5 17s 6d, £6, to £7 Is; forward cows, £3 15s, £3 19s, £4, £4 12s 6d to £4 15s; store cows, £2, £2 15s to £2 16s; springing heifers, to £ll 10s; heifers just calved, £6 to £10; Jersey heifer calves, to £3; cows and calves, to £2 ss; bulls, 30s, £4, £4 10s to £4 12s 6d ; vealers, £2 to £3 7s 6d; cows and calves, to £4 5s Pigs: Baconers, £4 14s, £4 15s, £4 17s 6d, £5 to £5 6s; heavy porkers, £3 10s, £3 15s to £4; porkers, £3, £3 Is- to £3 7s; light porkers, £2 3s, £2 7s, £2 10s to £2 16s; store pigs, 255, 295, 36s to 395; slips, 14s, 15s, 17s Gd, 18s, 20s to 225; weaners, good, 10s 6d, Ils, 12s to 12s 6d; medium, Bs, Bs' 6d to 10s; small, 4s 6d, ss, 6s 6d to 7s; choppers, £3, £4, £4 7s Gd, £5 2s 6d to £5 7s 6d.