ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 20, 14 May 1903, Page 13

ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET.

At Addington market there was an average attendance of buyers.

Fat Cattle. — 178 head yarded, principally heifers and cows. Prices were a trifle easier than last week;. Steers realised £6 10s to £9 17s 6d ; heifers, £5 17s 6d to £9 10s ; cows, £5 10s to £9 17s 6d. Beef, 25s to 29s per 1001T).

Fat Sheep. — The entry was smaller than usual. The yarding included a good proportion of prime freezing wethers, which were firm at last week's rates. Export buyers have reduced their limits for ewes, and prices suffered in consequence in respect to freezing lines, but for best butchers' sorts competition was keener than usual. Best freezing wethers realised 17s 6d to 20s 4d ; lighter, 15s 8d to 17s ; forward wethers, 15s to 15s lOd ; butchers' ewes, 9s 6d to 17s ; freezing ewes, 14s to 14a 9d.

Fat Lambs. — About 1500 were penned, the quality being rather better than usual, and prices firmer than in the previous week. Freezers brought lls to 14s 6d ; tags, 14s lOd to 15s ; butchers', 9s to 13s 7d — a few extra big, 17s 6d.

Pigs. — There was rather a small entry of pigs, and a fair sale took, place, though prices for porkers were easier. Baconers brought from 43s to 65s 6d — equal to 5d per IT) ; porkers, 30s to 89s — equal to 5d per lb ; stores, 20s to 26s ; small, 14s to 18s ; weaners, 7s 6d to 12s.