STOCK MARKET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 November 1943, Page 4

STOCK MARKET

PRICES AT ADDINGTON A SHARP DROP REPORTED LAMBS DOWN SEVERAL SHILLINGS (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, November 17. There was a sharp easing in practically all classes of meat at Addington today. The main cause was a heavy entry. A big proportion of the spring lamb penned was passed in, the remainder selling at a drop of 6s to 8s on last week. There was a small attendance of buyers and the sale was dragging for all classes. The best price for wethers was 26s 3d for local twotooihs. | The demand for hoggets was weaker), a line of 304 ewes being passed in at 345. Shorn ewe hoggets were also passed in at 24s 6d. Good ewes and lambs sold well, one pen making 245, all counted, but medium sheep showeda drop. In fat sheep, in sympathy with the drop in beef and lamb, there was a decided easing from the outset, and this continued throughout. Best quality sheep showed a decline of from 3s to 4s a head, while there was a bigger drop for medium and light sheep. The highest price for wethers was 47s 7d, and for ewes 38s 7d. The fat cattle sale was erratic, opening weakly and firming slightly .over the concluding stages, but on an average the drop ranged from 30s to 70s. SALE AT MASTERTON RESTRICTED BUSINESS. VENDORS MEET MARKET. The Wairarapa Live Stock Auctioneers report as follows on their sale at Masterton yesterday:—To very restricted bidding, a good yarding of fat sheep, mostly shorn wethers, met with only fair competition. Vendors, however, met the market and a total clearance was effected. In the store section, the entry comprised mostly ewes with lambs at foot and for an attractive line of good free woolled ewes with good healthy black-face lambs at foot 18s Id all counted was received. Values of auction were:—

Fat sheep: Shorn 4-th. wethers, 26s 6d, 25s 3d, 245; b.f. 2-ths., 255, 22s lOd, 20s 3d; shorn maiden ewes, 18s 6d to 23s 4d; woolly ewes, 225; woolly hoggets, 265, 25s 6d, 22s 6d; shorn ewes, 16s.

Store sheep: Ewes and b.f. lambs, all counted, 18s Id, 14s 6d, 13s 3d, 12s Id; woolly ewe hoggets, 28s 2d. Cattle: Dairy heifers, £8 2s 6d.