COMMERCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3938, 21 February 1920, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

AUCKLAND STOCK SALES

i At ttie Westlield sale yards on Wed- ' nesday extra prune ox .sold up to L' 2 ( Itis per 1001b, prune £2 10s to £2 15s, ' ordinary quality £2 5s to Li Bs, prime . coys- beef £2 5s to L 2 10s, ordinary j quality 38s to £2. Prime svethers sold Iroiu 3Gs to £2, good 32s to | 355, ordinary 27s to- 3is, esves prime ,up to 395, good 30s to 335, ordinary 22s to 28s. Calves, runners made from ; iti to £7, suckers £2 10s to £3 10s, i young calves 12s to 18s. Pigs bacon- ; ers made from £7 10s to £8 10s., choppers £(> to £7 10s, porkers £-1 to £5, sveaners 255. Prime lambs; sold from 27s ihl to 2i)s, good lambs 23s i to 2*.is. others lbs to 20s.

DAIRY PRODUCE

j Tho butters and cheese j>roducors representatives svho svaitod on the Prime Minister during the sveek svith rcloruiice to the disposal ot 'their •Hitput alter ;iI.A July next, mado it s-t'i'.v plain that- tlioy wished tor absolutely tree markets. No prices «-ere uii'iitioiuHi on that occasion. Tim British Government has'beojn advised already through tin: proper chanuels of the attitude of the New Zealand producers, and it is nosy left for the authorities lv .state at svhat price the buttor and cheese, if required, svould be taken. In the event, of there being no purclia.se miulo, hut price-control exorcised Great, Britain, then producers here svi.sh to be free to send their buttor or cheese (or both) into any market they think svill give them a better -return than that derivable from sale*- in Great Hriiain under controlled prices. The question of the price ni" butter for the New Zealand market next season is* nosy « matter for consideration. 'Hie following space has been allotted or dairy produce in the s.s Ruapehu : —From Port Chalmers fKX"H) boxes butter mid ,W) crates cheese: from Port Lvttelton {

H-'-OO boxes of butter and 500 crates of cheese. Australian production is now- steady. Reiicfteinl rains have fallen in the dairying districts of New South Wales and Queensland. —Post,