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THE ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, last night. The weekly sales took place at Addington to-day. Fat Cattle: 128 were yarded, mostly light weights, heifers and cows, and under 20 steers. The short supply caused a rise of Is per lOOlbs. Beef sold at lßs 6d to 22s 6d ; steers, £6 15s to £lO, and £l3 10s for primo Polled Angus bullocks; heifers, £5 10s to £7 7s 6d; cows, £5 to £7 2s 6d.
Fat Sheep.—4oo were yarded, mostly ewes. There were very few good wethers. Best wethers realised 13s to 17s 3d; others, from 12s 6d to 14s 6d. There were too many ewes for the trade, and there was a drop in prices, except for a few extra prime ones, which made from 14s to 15s 3d. Good useful trade sorts brought 11s to 13s 3d; inferior, 7s 6d to 10s. ,
Fat Lambs.—7s were yarded, mostly unfinished sorts. There \y&s a dull sale; 131 were sold for export at 12s 6d to 13s 7d; 231 butchers’went at 9s 3d to 13s lid; and the balance were passed in at from 11s to 11s 9d,
Store sheep : Over 14,000 were yarded, including good lines of forward wethers and good breeding ewes, and these, with good forward lambs met an improved sale, but the other sorts were about the same'. Forward wethers sold at 12s 2d to I2s 10d; others, 10s 2d to lls Id; backward and small, "s Id to Qs.fid ; good wethers and maiden ewes, 10s to 13s Id; Merino wethers, 8s 8d ; two-tooth ewes, 14s 3d to 15s 3d; four-tooths, 123 Id; two and fonr-tooth, 12s fid; six-tooth, 13s Id; four, six, and eight-tooth, 8s 3d to lls 4d ; sound mouthed, 6s to 8s 3d ; aged, 5s to os 9d ; boilers, Is 6d to 2s 3d. Lambs, forward sorts, 9s to 10s lid; fair, 5s Id to 8s; inferior, is 7d to 33 3d.
Pigs: 500 were yarded, many unfinished ones being in the fat pens, and there was a weaker sale. Baconers brought 34s to 43s 6d, and up to 52s 6d for an extra heavy line—3d to 3id. Porkers, 20s to 30s, 3|d. Big stores were in demand at 15s to 228. Smaller stores were almost unsaleable, prices ranging from 7s to 12s, and suckers and weaners 3s to 6s.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 380, 3 April 1902, Page 2
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