COMMERCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 124, 7 March 1930, Page 7

COMMERCIAL NEWS

GRAIN AND PRODUCE. AUSTRALIAN QUOTATIONS. (United Press Association— Copyright.) MELBOURNE, This Bay. Wheat, nominal, 4s 8d; flour, £ll 5s to £ll 10s; bran, £7 15s; pollard, £8 5s ; oats,, 3s to 3s 2d; barley, English 3s 'l0d; imaizc, 6s 3d. < SYDNEY, March 6. Wheat—Bulked 4s 7d, bagged lots 4s 8d per bushel. Flour.—£ll 10s per ton. Pollard—£B. B*an—£7 10s per ton. Potatoes. —Tasmanian £lO, V ictorian £7 5s per ton. Onions. —Victorian Globe and Brown Spanish £5, per ton. . Oats— White ss, Algerian 4s 6d per Maize. — 6s, African 6s 6d per bushel. ADELAIDE, March 6. Wheat—4s 5d per bushel. Flour—£ll 5s per ton. Pollard.— £B 6s. Bran— £6 15s per °Oats.—3s to 3s 2d per bushel. BANK RATE REDUCED. (Received This Day, 9.55 a-" 1-) LONDON, March 6. The Bank rate has been reduced to 4 per cent. GERALDINE STOCK SALE. (Special to the “Guardian.”) TIMARU, This Day. There was a large entry at the Geraldine stock sale on Wednesday, but bidding was slow, and there was a dragging sale for all classes of stock. Farmers were present in good numbeis and the sale did not finish till about 3.30. There was a considerable drop in fats—which in many! cases were not up to the average standard— and tat lambs showed! a decline of from Id a lb, or a shilling a head all round. Stores dropped in sympathy with fats. Cattle sold well at current rates. „ The decline m values for fats no doubt had a depressing effect on the sale, and although there is seeminglj a good quantity of feed in the district, it has not a great deal of substance owing to the heavy rams .which caused it to become rank early m the season. Details of prices are as follows Fat Lambs —17 at 22s id, 20 at 24s 5d 10 at 22s lOd, 21 at 22s 4, 17 at 225. 6 at 16s 3d, 2 at 20s 10 at 19s 4d> 08 at 23s 6d, 60 at 23s 6d, 30 at 24s 3d, 25 at 22s 6d, 57 at 23s 6d, 35 at 2os, 22 at 22s lOd, 66 at 23s 6d, 56 at 24s 8d 10 at 245. 8 at 22s 4d, 33 at 23s lid, 4?’at 24s lid, 80 at 22s lOd, 31 at 23s 10 Fat Wethers—l4 at 27s 6d, lat 255, 5 at 24s sd, 104 at 25s 3d. Fat Ewes—3 at 15s 3d, 1 at 18s, 13 nt 16s 7 at 16s, 15 at 16s 9d, 33 at los M Fat 14s 10d, 13 at 16s 6d 27 at 17s Id, 9 at 16s Id, 11 at 17s, 12 at 16s 4d, 7 at 16s 3d 4 at 19s 3 at 15s 3d, 6 at 15s, 7 at 13s 4d, 35 at 16s, 25 at 16s 9d, 14 at 17s 7d, 18 at 16s Bd, 1.9 at 15s, 11 at los lOd, 7 Ewes—l 23 6 and 8-tooth at 16s 7d, 26 f. and m. ewes 11s 6d, 269 f.m. and five year Romney ewes 29s 9d, 96 f.m. ewes 16s, 33 two and four-tooth ewes 24s 6d, 42 half-bred ewes 4s 3d, 71 English Leicester cross two-tooths 2«s oci, 94 Corriedale two-tooths 30s, 90 f-bred two-tooths 245, 2SO 3-bred six and eight tooth 18s 6d, 14 two-tooth ewes 2/s 3d. Store Sheep—24B rape lambs at 20s, 7 two-toothSvethers 21s, 48 cull jambs at 6s Bd, 34 two-tooth ewes 2os id. 3J m.s. lambs at 16s, 35 at 18s, 90 s.m. ewes at 18s 9d, 20 ewes at 12s 6d, m ewes at 15s Id. 50 m.s. lambs at 11s 6d, 25 m.s. lambs 17s 6d, 61 m.s. lambs 11s 6d, 25 m.s. lambs 17s 6d, 61 f.m ewes at- 12s 4d, 36 ewes at 21s 9d, 27 twotooth ewes at 16s 6d, 41 cull two-tooth ewes at 16s. 34 f.m. ewes at 13s 9d, 92 ewe lambs at 14s 7d 179 rape lames at 18s 6d, 212 rape lambs at 19s 7d, 8 cull lambs at 7s 9d, 101 store lambs at 17s 3d, 35 at 14s 9d, o 3 small ewe lambs at 12s 3d, 150 two-tooth ewes 335. 80 two-tooth ewes at 30s Store Cattle—l cow at £o os, o heifers at £4 6s. 3steers at £3 10s, 4 steers at £5 ss, 3 steers at £6 7s 6d, 3 cows at £1 2s 6d, 1 cow m profit at £9 17s 6d. , Fat Heifers—l at £9 and 1 at £/ 15s.