COMMERCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 266, 22 August 1936, Page 9

COMMERCIAL NEWS

FRUIT AND PRODUCE. THE ASHBURTON MARKET. Cauliflowers have become cheaper on tli© Ashburton fruit anti produce market. Apples have also shown an easing tendency with the impending arrival of spring produce. Leeks are reduced in price, and red heather and marrows have disappeared from the market. Seed for for spring sowing is now available at cheap rates, and strawberry plants are also obtainable. Prices are:— Strawberry Plants—ls 6d. a dozen. Potatoes, Seed (Early)—l£d and 2d. Potatoes—2s 6d to 3s a sugar-bag. Bacon—lOd and lid a lb. Wheat—Seconds, 12s to 13s a sack. Clover Seed—6d a lb. Honey—6£d to 7d a lb Onions—ld a pound. Walnuts—6d a lb. Dessert Apples—sd to 6s a case. Cooking Apples—3s to 4s 6d a' case. Cabbages—3d and 4d. Carrots—ls 6d a sugar-bag. Pears—2s 6d to 3s a case. Swedes—ls 6d a sugar-bag. Parsnips—2s a sugar-bag. Chaff—2s 6d a bag, Cauliflowers —4s, os, and Gs a dozen. Pie Melons—2d a lb. Eschalots—lid lb. Leeks—3d and 4d a bundle. GRAIN AND PRODUCE. DUNEDIN MARKET. (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, August 21. Lack of interest in the milling wheat market continues, and few sales are being made to millers. The fowl wheat market remains firm for shipment. The ruling quotation is 4s 9d, sacks extra, with up to 5s a bushel, ex store for small lots. The oat market continues firm with merchants now asking higher prices. Quotations vary from 3s 4d : to 3s 6d, f.0.b., s.i., for A’s. The market for B Cartons is firmer and these have been sold during the week at 3s f.o.b., s.i. ' Best quality chaff is worth £4 10s to £4 15s, sacks extra, ex truck. Most of the North Island ports have purchased, a fair quantity of potatoes from Bluff, Dunedin and Canterbury, and these supplies are sufficient to meet northern requirements for a while. Ereshly picked lines of Arran Chiefs are worth £4 10s a ton, with King Edwards ruling round about £5 a ton. Practically all seed markets remain firm. BRITISH WHEAT MARKETS. I _ (United Press Association —Copyright.) LONDON, August 20. Cargoe's are quiet and parcels easier. Futures are quoted : London: August 35s Id per quarter, November 355. Liverpool: October 7s 6£d per cental, December 7s 4d, March 6s 11 5-Bd. PRICES IN MELBOURNE. MELBOURNE, August 21. Wheat—4s lid. Flour—£l2. Bran—£s 15s; pollard, £6. Oats—2s 4d to 2s 4£d. Barley—English, 3s 3d. Maize—ss 2d. Potatoes—£7 10s to £B. Onions—£lß to £l9. DAIRY PRODUCE IN LONDON. lA>NDON, August 20. The blitter market is firm. Cheese is dearer. Quotations are:— Butter—Danish, 126 s to 128 s. New Zealand: Choicest salted, 121 s to 1225; unsalted, 121 s to 1225. Australian: Choicest salted, 120 s; unsalted, 120 s. Cheese—iNevv Zealand: White, 70s to 71s; coloured, 68s. COMPANY REGISTRATION. The following company registration was notified this week : Kingsbury (W. S.) and Company, Ltd. Registered as a private company, Augusta. Office: Victoria Street, Ashburton. Capital: £I4OO into shares of £1 each. Subscribers—Ashburton : W. S. Kingsbury TOOO. Dorie, E. A. Kingsbury 200, E. H. Kingsbury 200. _ Objects : Purchase business of an engineer and property hitherto carried on by W. S. Kingsbury. NAPIER WOOL SALE. KEEN DEMAND FOR CRUTCHINGS. HASTINGS, August 21. Prices 2d and 2|d better than those at the 1935 winter sale, and Id to l£d better than for the same quality at the last summer sales, vde're procured at the 1936 clutching sale at Napier this afternoon. Competition was keen from a fully representative bench of buyers. England, Canada, America, and Japan were the most eager buyers, seeking coarse wool for carpet manufacture. The highest price \Vas 10§d, paid for clean, well-sorted super wool. Practically 100 per cent, clearance was made of the total offering of 1989 bales. Good to super wool fetched to medium to 9d, and low quality up to Bd. The offering included a small quantity of fleece wool, which fetched up to lOd. The keen competition made it evident

that crutchings are in keen demand by overseas manufacturers. The results of the sale are considered to be' highly satisfactory by both brokers and sellers. THE SHARE MARKET. The following sales were made on the Christchurch Stock Exchange yesterday : i LISTED STOCKS.

Sale*, on ’Change. £ s. d. £500 N.Z. Govt. 4 p.c. Ins., 1937-40 101 7 6 £255 N.Z. Govt. 4 p.c. Ins., 1943-46 103 5 0 200 Oomm. Bank of Aust. (2) 0 18 6 100 Goldsbrough, Mort ... 1 11 7 25 Aust. Glass ... 4 12 0 100 British Tobacco 2 1 0 100 Consolidated Brick ... 0 9 10 100 Dunlop Rubber 0 18 3 350 Electro. Zinc (pref., cum div.) 2 3 6 (3) 2 3 3 50 G. J. Coles 3 19 6 300 Wilcox Mofflin (2) 0 12 9 300 Big River 0 2 0 1500 Maori Gully (3) 0 0 8 350 Mount Morgan (2) 0 13 9 0 13 84 0 13' 8 Sales Reported. 10 Bank of N.S.W. ... 32 14 0 150 Electro. Zinc (pref., cum div.) 2 3 2 2 3 I 300 General Industries ... 0 19 5 50 J. G. Coles 4 2 0 150 N.Z. Newspapers (2) 2 1 3 300 Wilcox Mofflin 0 12 8 UNLISTED STOCK. Sales on ’Change. 300 White Electric 0 0 9 75 Woolworths (Syd.), ord. 5 14 6 5 13 0 Sale Reported. 100 Cabonic Ice 0 19 3