LATE RATES MAINTAINED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1943, Page 2

LATE RATES MAINTAINED

AT CARTERTON SALE. PRACTICALLY A TOTAL CLEARANCE. Messrs Wright Stephenson and Co., Ltd., report as follows on. their Carterton sale yesterday:—A small yarding of sheep and a good yarding of cattle and pigs came forward. Prices were on a par with late rales and practically a total clearance was effected under the hammer. The following are some of the realisations:— [ Sheep: Prime b.f’s., 26s to 27s 6d; fat lambs, 20s, 25s to 275: fat wethers, to 255; fat ewes, to 14s; light fat lambs, to 18s; woolly wether hoggets, to Ils 6d; b.f. lambs, Ils 9d to 13s 6d; small b.f. lambs, to 6s 6d; 4-th. wethers, to 20s 2d; m.a. ewes, r.w. S.D. ram, to 11s. Cattle: Springing heifers, to £lO ss; wearier Jersey heifers, £2 10s, £3 to £3 ss; fat cows, £5, £5 10s, £6, £6 8s to £7 15s; forward cows, £3, £3 10s, £4 2s to £4 15s; store cows, 27s 6d, 31s, 345, £2 ss, £2 7s 6d to £2 10s; cows and calves, 30s to £2 10s; bulls, to £2 10s; vealers, to £2 10s. , Pigs: Baconers, £3 17s, £4 ss, £4 9s, £4 10s, £4 14s to £4 15s; heavy porkers, £3, £3 Is, £3 2s, £3 7s, £3 12s 6d; porkers, £2 12s, £2 15s to £2 17s; light porkers, £2, £2 Is, £2 4s, £2 ss, £2 9s to £2 Ils; store pigs, 275, 295, 30s, 31s to 345; slips, 15s 6d, 16s, 17s, 17s 6d, 18s, 19s to 20s; weaners, good, 10s, 10s 6d, Ils Gd, 12s 13s to 14s; weaners, medium, 7s’6d, Bs, 8s 6d, 9s to 9s 6d; waeners, small, 6s to 7s; choppers, £2 15s, £3 10s, £4, £4 ss, £4 10s, £5, £5 10s, £6, £6 10s to £7; p.B. Berkshire boar, to £B.