CANTERBURY MARKETS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18138, 30 July 1924, Page 10

CANTERBURY MARKETS.

(by oca cojtmsßcui. ebttoe.j . Tuesday Evening. There is very little change in the ■market since the week-end. A few oversellers in potatoes, are covering their commitments for the month and this has given the market a firmer tone, but with practically no change in vo?ues. ' The week-end cabled quotations from Melbourne showed a slight advance, confirming private information received during the week. The range in the quotation was wide—from £3 to £4 os, but as it is only the soundest potatoes that are -shipped the latter price, or near it, need only be taken notice of as affecting this market. This would appear to be an advance of about 10s a ton. However, this is not likely to affect the heavy consignments previously arranged for. although it may restrict future operations. Values to farmers are about £■}• on trucks. Oats are very firm, and the few farmers holding any are asking big prices. Chaff is also tvery firm. Hie following are the quotations to be paid to farmers at country stations, free of commission, sacks extra, except where otherwise stated :— _ Wheat (new season's prices), Tuscan os 4id. Hunters 5s 6id, Pearl os f.o.b. Lyttelton. . Fowl Wheat (nominal) —5s 9d f.o.b. Chaff—To £7. Oats —B Oartons 5s Id; A's, 5s 3d. White .Clover —Is 2d to Is 3d. Oowgrass—Bd to 9d. Partridge Peas —5s 6d. Italian Ryegrass—ss. Perennial Ryegrass—6s. Cocksfoot—Bd to 9d..Linseed—£l6 10s. - Barley—ss. ; Potatoes—£4. Flour—£ls 10s a ton. Pollard—£6 10s f.o.b. main - ports-; 10s. extra for smaller packing. Bran—£s 10s per ton f.o.b. main ports; 10s extra, for smaller packing.

RANGIORA MARKET. There was an average attendance at the Rangiora market .yesterday, but the entry | of iive stock was a very small one, only i 453 siieep, 32 cattle and about .30 pigs being | yarded. > 'l'he sales o£ sheep were 13- failing mouth ewes in lamb at 3(Js, 10 at 26s 2d, 45 at ,263 3d, SO at 26s 9d, 25 at 2te, S4 -sound j xaouth ewes ill 1 lamb 323 6d, 35 four p.r.d Sjx-looth and failing mouth ewes at 3Ca, 23 ewea and 24 lamb 3 at 21s 3d all counted, ' 53 two-tooth wethers- at 34s €d; 19 at 263, j and 17 hoggets, - mixed sex, at- 30s 2d. ! Cattle—Jersey springers made £7 to £lO j Ss; good springers £3 to £5 10s, springing ' heifers £3 10s to £!• 15s, store cc-ws £1 10s j to £3, heifer calves. 21s to 255. Low-condi-tioned and old cows were unsaleable: Pigs—A sow with litter made £6 10s, best: Stores to 465,' other -stores - 35s .to 30a, best. weacera 28s, small, weaners 20s to 255. Poultry—Roasters" sold at 10s 6d to- 12s . a couple, hens ss. 6d to 7s, pullets 6s Id, ducks 7b, and geeaei fis. - ■ • Produce—Chickwheat .20s to, 22s a sack, meal 15s to 18s, oatsheai chafi ,7s, straw chaff 3s, potatoes IPs to 12s,' pig'' potatoes 3fl to 4s, carrots 2s> kit or 6s a bag, swedes "2s a kit, parsnips 4s, marrows 69 a< dozen, applea 5a 6d a case and onions 2d lb. . Skina—Halfhred to 17s, crossbred < 10s to 14s, hoggets' -skins 10s to - 14s, calf skins ,1s 6d to 2s hides. 2d. lb, iwool Is 5d lb,. crutchings la- 2d, iat 2d, horsehair Is 2d lb. ASHBURTON MARKET. , There -was a comparatively sriiall i attendacco -at the Ashburton yardß .yosterday, when tlje entry comprised' 298 ' -wothors, a oouple of fat ah^, J-WP, hoggfets, 933 stores, a.ni mne ~he£vd: of ator6 eatt,le ; of a poor description. . The market for' wether mutton' was a ,little easier '.-^han.,was the case at the Tinwald yards- last week," and a number of the lots offered were passed at auction. ..Prime sorts made 47s to 53s 9d, .the latter figure being for a .pen of four, sold on acoount of Messrs Long Brothers, of Kyle. Second quality made -333 lid 38s 9d. The ©ale9 were:

W«thers~ll at 475, 8 at 38s 9d, 11 at 36s 6d, 7-ai 340 ?d, 13 at 40s. 6d, 11 at 36s 9d, 12 at 38a 10d,. 11 -at 38s 4d, 12 at 37a 3d 4 at SOs 9d, lo at 36r Id, 17 at 37s ;td, 19' at '3Bs 6d, 18 at ,37a Id, 22, at 34s 3d; 16 at 38s, 17 ; at 335, 10 at 38s; 17 at 33*. 11 at'3Bs, 12.at-375, 12 at 39s 4d.. Stores—'There was 'a ' fairly . good demafld for stores,, but not. at it vendor's values, and out of the 023 offered 635 were, passed in. Tb'e sales cm at 20s Bd, 80 halfbrod wether lionets at 2 is- Vd, 85 , full' and failing-mouth half-; brrd ' ewes nt'lsS..' '!•' ' ' Cattle— Springing heifers brought £1 5s t# £3- Se, 'n. .heifur in> profit £2, a cow ill profit ■£!' 10s,'and an aged oow '£l 10s.

\.' wELI-INaTOTJ ; ■ , company: ' The. "directors >f : the 'Wellington Investment, Truste.-, and Agency Co., Ltd..' report for the year ended June cOth, 1924, aa fchowsAn interim dividend of 3 per cent, for • the -.half-year' was declared : and, .paid in ,D.'cember last, and, after making provision for income-tax- ! 6n tHe. year B* taxab.e profits, there is left.a net available .profit of £3768 7s lid, which ' the directors rBCom-. mend shou-d bß.dcoH 'with as follow: la) -. m.-nt of n further dividend ol 3 per cent., making , 6 per cent: for r the • year,- ,£1860; placing £IOOO to the reserve fund, making this account £22,700, to carry forward the balance, £9OB 7b lid; total, £3768 7s lid.. .

EGG AUCTION. Messrs Bros., Md., report tht the usual week.y auction sale of Jf eather Brand guaranteed' freßli' eggs, on behalf of the Canterbury Egs Farmers: Go-oaerativo Association, was Held' in - their rooms, 158 Hereford street, yesterday afternoon. The following srioes were realised:—Hen eggs, Jst grade (iozs or over), is "dd) : ; hen' ; eggs, 2nd.-grade (under Sits), la 7d. . ° ' LONDON EGG MARKET. (3PSCIAL TO "THE PBBSS.") V (July 29. - The. latest cable message about eggs _received by » Dunedin firm; from London reads*' *'Xo-dßy*s price' - for-new laid Irish »gg3 is I$S to 16s 6d per,l2o. store Irish sell-.n<» for Ociober-Kovember-December delivery'at = 18c to 18s C-d- New Zealand expected to make 2a over these prices for the same months." , THE PROPERTY MARKET. Jones, McCrostie Company, Ltd., public auction yesterday, on account of the executors of the estate ,of Mr D. Cant, the property situated at No. ISS St-anmore Linwooa,. comprising 29J perches of l*iua % together with thesix-roomed reaidence thereon, to Mr . Andrfews, for £B9O.