BEEF FALLS AGAIN
WESTFIELD PRICES DECLINE (By TelPtrranh—special to tush) AUCKLAND, Wednesday With a big yarding of ox beef penned which proved more than equal to the demand, values again receded 2s a 1001 bat the weekly Westfield fat stock market today. The entry included a good portion of extra heavy bullocks. Cow and heifer beef was also yarded in good quantity and it shared the same drop as beef. Messrs Dalgety and Company Limited, Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons, and the. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited, quote as follows:
Extra choice ox sold to 38s a 1001 b; choice and prime. 35s to 375; secondary and plain, 31s to 335; extra prime young cow and heifer beef, 29s to 335; prime, 26s to 28s. Ordinary cow beef, 23s to 255. Extra heavy prime steers ranged in price from £ls to £ls 15s; heavy prime steers, £l4 to £l4 15s; lighter prime steers, £l2 10s to £l3 10s; light prime steers, £ll to £l2; small and unfinished, £6 fis to £lO ss; extra heavy prime young cows and heifers, £lO to £l2 10s; heavy prime. £'B 5s to £9; lighter prime, £6 10s 1o £7 10s; other billable cows, £5 to £6.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21209, 4 September 1940, Page 8
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