COMMERCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2464, 5 October 1914, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

SOUTHERN GRAIN AND PRODUCE. PEB PnESS ASSOCIATION. Christchurch, October 3. Since the fixing of the prit es jf wheat and flour by the Government, business in wheat is at a complete standstill. There are inquiries from outside"-" millers for wheat at 4s 9d f.0.b., but merchants can only supply at a loss on recent purchases out of their own stocks, and holders of wheat in the country are not soiling. Oats are weaker, in the absence of slipping freight-to the United Kingdom, and there is no demand for chaff. The potato market continues to weaken j and 27s 6d to 30s are tho best prices at stations. FEILDING STOCK SALES. Dalgety and" Co. report having a fair entry' of sheep at Feilding sale on Friday. There was a very fair demand right through. Very fair mixed hoggets made 1.6s to 16s 3d, forward woolly ewes 18s 4d, lowcon- :- dition ewes with lambs 17s, mixedaged ewes with lambs 24s Id, small yearling steers £2 15s, 15-month steers £3 17s, store heifers £3. 10s, store cows £3 16s, £4 ls, £4 12s 6d, bulls £4 ls. Abraham and Williams report on their Feilding sale on Friday: We had a fair yarding of both sheep and cattle,. which met with a ready sale, beef in particular being in great demand. Ewes and lambs made 19s 6d to 27s 9d, fat. ewes (shorn) 19s 6d; light fat bullocks £10 18s, fat cows £6 10s to-£7 6s, fat 18-month heifers £4, do. steers to £5 15s, springing heifers £4 los, £5 10s to £6 ss, cow and .calf £7 10s, store cows £2, £3 ICs to £3 18s. The N.Z.L. and M.A. Co. report: At Feilding on Friday a moderate entry of sheep and cattle came forward, and sold well. Ewe hoggets (good) made 17s 4d, store ewes 14s 7d, inferior ewes and lambs 17s 6d; yearling, steers 36s 6d to £2 3s, two-year heifers £2 18s, yearling steers £3 6s, store cows £3 14s, bulls £2 2s 6d. WELLINGTON SKIN AND HIDE "SALES. Abraham and - Williams report as follows: We offered a good catalogue of all classes of produce to a large attendance of buyers. There was good competition, and prices for skins showed an advance of a farthing per lb ' for good woolled skins; inferior •-.'ere on a par. Ox hides ruled about the same, but cows were about a farthing dearer. Tallow was dull of j sale. Half bred skins made 6£d to 7fd, fine crossbred.7d to 7Jd, medium to coarse-crossbred 6jd to :7£d, short to half wools 4£d to 6£d, dead and damaged 4-Jd to 5Jd, inferior lid to 4jd, lambs' 4Jd to 7-Jd,- damp and salted 3s to 7s 3d, pelts ls6d; heavy :ox hides 7jd to Bd, medium ox 7id to Bd, light ox 7-Jd to 7Jd, heavy cows' 6d to 7|d,-bulls and stags 2*d to 6d, yearlings 7d to Bid, super calf ll£d I to. 13} d, medium, to good SJd to IOJd, damaged calf 5d to 9Jd. Tallow,'in casks 21s" 6d, in tins 14s to 18s; p.s., medium cows' 7d to 73d, cut and slippy 6Jd to 7|d. FEILDING MARKET REPORT. At their weekly sale on Friday, A. H. Atkinson and Co. report, medium entries of pigs and poultry, with good demand and prices well up to late rates. For other lines offered there was not much inquiry. Quotations: Pigs, weaners, 13s, 14s, 18s; stores, : 295, 325,- 33s 6d; slips, 23s 6d, 255. i Poultry, at per pair: "Cockerels, 4s ; 3d v ; chicks, ls 6d; hens, 4s, 4s 6d, os, ; -6s 3d; roosters, ss, 6s, 6s 3d; ducks, | -Is 6d, os 6d, os 9d, 6s 6d, Cs 9d* turkeys, hens, 6s 6d; gobbler, "5s 3d. Gig, £9 15s; harness, £2 19s;; cow chaff, 2s sack; ryegras, 2s 6d, 2s lid per bushel; potatoes, pg, Is 6d; table, 6s, 7s, 7s 6d, 8s 6d• bananas, 9s case; cauliflowers, 4d to 6d each; spring onions, Id per bundle. GORTON'S WEEKLY REPORT. During the past week our usual sales were held at Bulls,: -Hunterville, and Feilding. At Bulls we offered a fair entry in sheep and cattle. All lots were well competed for, and we quitted the whole yarding at prices on a par with -those' ruling at other I centres. At Hunterville; our offering | was small, hut all entries were sold at late rates. At; Feilding the entry was in "excess of advertised numbers. The demand was- keen for .slieeji, and prices more than recovered from the slight drop which took pl'ice at the previous sale. Hoggets- '.were much sought after owing to the presence at I the sale of buyers from the Main | Trunk line. In' cattle we had a go<xl | entry/and most lines sold, at prices iin excess of the vendors' reserves. We ! quote:— !.. 'At Bulls, fat ewes 22s 3d, store ewes 13s 4d fcj ;ss, hoggets 12s Id to 13s -:4d, spri;:,;;;ig cows £8 5s to £10 los, fat cows £7 15s, store cows £3 14s to £3 10s, heifers in .calf (backward) £3 15s to £4, yearlings (mixed sexes) £3 2s 6d. Pigs, weaners 15s to 17s 6d, stores 275. ■At Hunterville, mixed sex hoggets 15s to 17s 6d, cows in milk £5 10k, bulls £3 to £4 ss. - At Feilding, on account S. Quarrie, 225 hoggets 15s, 45 cull do. 10s; account, A. Matthews, 129 mixed hoggets 15s lOd; account T. Lowry, 115 ewe hoggets 16s 6d, 61 wether hoggets, 16s, Bd, 4: fat ewes 21s 6d; account Allan" Harris, 127 mixed hoggets 15s 3d; account L. Price, 62 mixe dhoggets 15s sd; account AVilson Bros., 139 wether hoggets 16s 4d, 230 ewe hoggets 15s 2d; account John Williaias, 54 wether hoggets 18s, 63 ewe d 0...185" 3d, 2'fat ewes 21s 7d; account J. G., Sharpe, 39 fat ewes 21s; account Mrs E. Bray, 16 fat ewes 265; account S. J. Jefferies, 16 fat ewes 22s 3d: account R. Shaw, 7 fat sheep 24s 7d. Cattle—light fat cows £5 7s, 6d to £6.105, fat. heifers £8 17s 6d, springing cows £6 15s to £7 12s. 6d; store, cows. £2 18s 6d to £4 ls, springing heifers (best) £6 10s to £7, others £5 to £6; empty heifers £3 3s to £3 lis, steers £5 16s, yearling steers £2 3s to £2 lis.