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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16324, 23 September 1918, Page 9

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9 DUVATJCHEI>LE SALE. The first mid-monthly nalo of the Reason J, held »t Duvauchel'e on Friday, when a 2~ fair yarding of Block was recorded. Tho "Sf feature of the sale waa tie prcsenco of fine herd of 30 dairy cows, tho property of \fVO S "Wakelin, who, having been called fifin'tbe ballot, is selling out. Tho pricc® ranted from £0 5s to £16 10s. Other 1 B up to £5 17a Gd, cowa £7 15s to £9 ss, fat cows up to < t?! JpSgcw 5s to £15 2s ed. ashbtjbton MARKET. - There ifl still a fair quantity of chaff being . but ae far as other classes of pro- ' jn-ain are concerned, they are now iTticallf "off" the market. An odd small 7m of wheat is offered from time, to time, easily placed as are xdao Rood underor seconds of »ood quality. fil business is practically of a retail ar.v lota offered by growers comthe shipping parity for seed and ™!? d nSes. Values of Garton oats may nominally 4b 10d to ss, while Stra choice lot would command a still Algerians range from 4s 3d (or ordinary feed, »r,d up to Is 9d lota. aro practically off the W Chts--Prime quality is in demand, and !«» ranee" fr° m £6 10s to £6 15s, and up ?SS?S» 'ift* *"♦ taior quality 13 Still neglected. AMERICAN CANNED FOODSTUFFS. Since tho entry of America into the war twinf lines of foodstuffs formerly imported v ow Zealand in largo quantities have Sim cat off. their export having been prohibSSby tho United States Government. Fore££t among these are canned vegetable!!, Srtioularly corn and tomatoes, which for--sSrWbad a very large sale, and which are Z™ being conserved for the home supply and the use of American troopa at homo and Lfcmud The export of prunes and dried haa also been prohibited, and supof confectionery have been very much Lrfailed owing to the United States authontSTbsving reduced the supply of sugar to coofoctioners by about 50 per v M no restriction on the export _ot Lnned fruit, however, but owing to tho m~~7pcd cost due to shipping charges, etc., Anstr&Kan fruit ia now being eoH in much £««• quantities than over before. Aocordv~? to Auckland merchant Califonuan tiLwJ fnrit, until quite recently, had an almost completo monopoly of the trad®, for it __M be imported at lower cost than Aue-tralian-grown fruit, etates the _ 'Herald. Wow that the price of the American artiolo In, incnaoed, canned fruit from Australia is . to compete in the .New Zealand trade, _j l«se quantities aro beinf received. with to the local canning industry, it ia at&ted that very few vegetables are being !£tup, white fruit preserving is m«itly oonSZIj to pio fruits, the amount of dessert Jndtcanned bedng comparatively email. LATEST WHEAT RETURNS. The Wheat Controller, Mr W. G. MacDonald, has issued the followmg details of wheat handled under the wheat Trad© Regulation* 1917:— Bushels. "Wheat Threshed— « 7 «j 7 fis Tuscan or Lcmgbeny .« •> 5,789,7(b Hunters' varieties 9m 816,104 2SS.-% z Total •• •* •• 5,820,516 • Contracts to ptachaao milling wheat: Bushels. Tuscan or Longbenj Hunters' vMMbes - - Velvet or Poori -mm 659,«a6 Totd .. - ..4,888,791 v. Contracts to purchase fowl wheat Anwunta paid to brokers £1,419,392 7 8 EXPORT OF TALLOW. It » notified in last week's "Gazette" that applications for the exportation of d«finit* quantities of tallow to the United States will be considered if forwarded to the Controller of Customs, Wellington. The conditions set out in "Gazette" notioe published July 25bh, 1918, will no longer be enforced. The name of the exporting ship and date of saihn? should be stated in each application. It wil be necessary for the consignees in the_ United States -to obtain licenses for importation, into that country. J the property market. Jones, McCrostio Company,' Ltd., sold by trablio motion on Satuiday, on account of the Public Trustee, in the estate of the late Mr John Daw (in conjunction with Mcckb Hillary and Baxter), a house of 4 rooms, together with. J-acro of land, situated at No. . 35 Bnfftm street, Waltham, to Mrs Roberts for £275; also a house of 5 rooms, together with i-aore of land, situated at No. 61 Wilson's road, to a client for £150. SATURDAY'S POULTRY MARKET. | Messrs J. B. Merrett and Co. had a good i entry of poultry on Saturday. Pnces were Wiy firm, table chickens realising 6s 6d to Us 4d, hens 4s to 7s lOd, pullets 5s 6d to 13a, ducks 7s to 10s Bd, turkiya lis to 445, all per pair. THE EGG MARKET. The egg market ia well supplied and the • demand, ia good. Canterbury Egg Circle first grades are quoted at Is Bd, seconds Is 2d, duck eggs Is 4d per dozen. 1 TATTERSALL'S HORSE BAZAAR. Mesare H. Mataon and Co. had an entry of .69 horses on Saturday. The quality on the , whole was excellent, 1 many splendid draughts being entered. There was a very largo attendance of buyeiß, and a highly satisfactory sale resulted, practically every horse beMlg sold under the hammer. Among the sales " made were:—Account client, three-year-old filly £30, three-year-old gelding £28; client, ased gelding £19; client, eight-year-old. mare £17; Sir G. Clifford (Stonyhurst), five-year-old mare £21, four-year-old gelding £21; four-year-old gelding £27 10s, four-yeaiMjld gelding £15, four-year-old mare £26, old mare £26, eut-yeaT-old gelding £15 10s, three-year-old filly £21; dient, aged mm £9, aged mare £8 10* four-year-old mare £27, four-year-old gelding £8 /10s; client, three-year-oM ' gelding £10 10s. f""'-year-old gelding £25 10s, four-year-old geld ing- £28; client, aged gelding £13, G. 1 Mangles (Tai Tapu), five-yotuvold maro £U 15s; J. Rickerby (HalsweU), horee. trap. and harness £13 10s; client, five-year-old geldmg £17 10s; J. BuUeir (Culverden), aged gelding £18; client, aged gelding £15, aeldine £19 10s, four-year-old gelding £10, cfient. aged gelding £19. fiwyyear-old gelding £11 10s; S. Stewart (Hornby), five-year-old gelding £12. Aged hacks and harness horses sold at late rates. -s- " FARMERS' SALEYARDS. Resort principal items 6old were Eleven horson sold from £3 5s to T her« was a good -demand, but halMraughts we« W and buyers were disappointed not And' ing this stamp in the yard- . ■to 375, calf £2 10s, r.-tyredgig trap £6 15a, weaners 25a to 30s, haraess £2 ss, £3 2s 6d, £3 17s 6d, £5, 3 r. sallies £2 4s, £2 Bs, £3 10s, part eet harness £2 & and £2 ss, tarpaulin £3 14a, bwycl ? £4, to Hid. bacon 8d per lb, light oats 13s so sack, Dun oats 5a Id bushel, 3 trucks .ohaf 3s 6d to 5s 3d, sack pig potatoes ture and sundnes usual rates. Total £25< Ss 4dJ ' SATURDAY'S POULTRY SALE. Ducks 8s to 8a 3d, roosters 5s W ' pullets 8, 6d. No tuxkejT came, for ■ward. Send for crates at once: high and money suro. Claridge anc Smith.