COMMERCIAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 June 1925, Page 7

COMMERCIAL

BUTTER AND CHEESE

A cablegram from Messrs W. Weddel & Co. Ltd., dated London June 12, stated: — Danish butter 190/- to 192/-, New Zealand unsalted 181/- to 188/-, salted 178/- to 180/-. Market firm. Cheese white and coloured 97/- to 98/-. Market linn. ARAHURA FAT STOCK S;ULE. At yesterday's Aral)lira fixture the

yarding comprised 56 breeding ewes and 41 fat lambs and hoggets, together with 35 head of cattle. The latter was a much smaller yarding than usually offered at these yards and though veiy little outside competition was present, the pens offered were keenly competed for and there was a distinct hardening in price throughout, ox beef making £1 per head more than the laslt. fixture, equal to about 3/- per hundred lbs. There was not the usual demand for sheep, most of the pens .being pass, ed. Messrs W. Jeffries and Co. sold as follow: —On account of Messrs Eg. geling Bros., 20 hoggets af 29/6. On account Messrs Nolan Bros. 56 breeding ewes passed at 320 n account Air W. Olderog, 2 vealers at £3/1/-. 1 at £2/19/6, 1 at £2/19/-, 2 light steers at £6, 2 at £6'7/6, 2 at £6.’ On account Mr W. F Deidrich. 1 bulleck at £l2 2 at £ll/15/-, 5 at £ll/s'-. 2 at £lO. 2 at £9/17/6, 3 steers at £7/17/6, 2 at £1 12/6, 2 heifers at £9/5/-. 1 at £B/15/-, 2 cows at £9/5/-, 1 at £5/7/6.