COMMERCIAL NEWS
WOOL APPRAISAL AT TIMARU TOTAL OF 8500 BALES • About 8500 hales of wool will be valued by the Government appraisers at the seventh wool appraisal of the season at Timaru which will commence to-day. Inquiries yesterday showed that a considerable amount of the wool had been in store early, hut some of the late shorn wool shows a lack of colour. Some of tho late shorn high country wool is showing signs of seeding, but generally speaking there should he an excellent showing, and the ivool should be up to the standard of previous appraisals. A further appraisal, arranged to take place in April, will he held in Timaru if there is sufficient wool offering; HAWARDEN EWE FAIR. 'Prices at the.Hawarden ewe fair yesterday were as follow, those at last year’s fair being also given.
SYDNEY PRODUCE MARKETS. SYDNEY, March 6. The wheat market is very quiet. Silo grain is' quoted at 3s llid a bushel, and bagged at 4s Flour £l2 13s a ton, bran and pollard £6 a ton; potatoes, Tasmanian £9, others £7 10s a ton; onions,• brown and white £lO a ton; maize, 5s 6d a bushel. THE SHARE MARKET. The following sales were made on the Christchurch Stock Exchange yestei’day;— LISTED STOCKS. Sale on ’Change. £ S :1 ICO Oamaru Woollens ... 1 0 3 ,13 Broken Hill Proprietary (rights) ... 018 0 £IOO N.Z. Farmers’ Co-op. (4i per cent. Stock. . 1950) 81 0 0 300 Grey River (2) ... 015 6 100 United Building ... 1 0 9 Sales Reported. 100 Oamaru Woollens ... 1 0 4 100 Australian Consolidated Industries ... 2 0 0 £l5O N.Z. Farmers’ Co-op. (4£ per cent. Stock, 1950) ' ... ... 81 0 0 300 Woolworths (South Africa) 0 15 5 350 Grey Valley (late sale, Wednesday) ...' 0 5 9
1940. 1941. Two-tooths—■ .'5. s. s. ( Ex. good .. 29 to 32 27 to 324 G ood 23 to 27 23 to 264 Medium 17 to 22 174 to 22 Small 13 to 17 2 11 to 17 Four-year— Ex. good .. 184 to 204 .16 to 20 Good m to m 13 to 15 Medium ... 124 to 14 9 to 124 Inferior — to lli — to 84 Four-year— Ex. good ... 15 to 17 — to 134 Good 11 to 14 S to 10 Inferior (5 to 9 4 to 7
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 124, 7 March 1941, Page 8
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