RUATORIA STOCK SALE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20493, 1 March 1941, Page 10

RUATORIA STOCK SALE

STRONG SHEEP DEMAND There was a strong demand for sheep at the Ruatoria stock sale conducted by Messrs. Williams and Kettle, ‘Limited, and the Gisborne Sheepfarmers’ Frozen Meat and Mercantile Company, Limited, on Thursday, when mere was a yarding 01 nearly 3000 rheep and 200 station cattle. An almost entire clearance was effected. Prices ranged as follows: Ewes.—Two-tooth, small, 13s 8d; 4 tnd 6-tooth. 13s 8d; 4-year, 12s Gd: 5-year, 7s 4d to 11s 1 Od; mixed ages, 10s Id to 13s 2d; aged, 4s to 7s Gd; fat ewes, 12s Id. Wethers. —Two-tooth, lGs 2d to lGs Sd; 4-tooth, 19s 9d; others, 13s to 16s Lantbs. —Wether lambs, 11s Gd to 13s Gd; small, 7s 3d to 7s Gd; ewe lambs, small, 8s Gd to 9s Gd. Cattle.—Steers, to £6 14s: cows, to £3 Is; heifers, to £4. AUSTRALIAN EXCHANGES (liluc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) SYDNEY, Feb. 27. On the Stock Exchange to-day trading covered a wide range of front rank industrials, prices of which reflected fresh confidence, buyers finding it increasingly difficult to locate sellers. Sales includedr—Commercial Banking. Sydney, £l9; Bank Australasia, £8 13s Gd; Bank New South Wales, £26 Gs; Tooths, 525; Australian Gas A. £5 10s; Huddart Parker, 50s; Anthony Hordern, 13s 9d; Burns Philp, 49s Gd; Broken Hill Proprietary, 39s lid. ditto (rights), 17s Gd; Cash Orders, 15s 9d; Claude Neon, 24s Gd; Newbold Brick, 24s Gd; W. H. Soul, GGs Gd; Selfridges, 20s Gd; Adams, 14s Gd; Emperor, 10s 9d; Mount Morgan, 10s Gd; Oii Research, Gs. Melbourne sales brough Mort, 24s Gd; Imperial Chemicals (pref.), 24s Gd; Broken Hill Pty. (rights), 17s 9d; Electrolytic Zinc (prof.), 525. LOWER EGG PRICES A reduction of 4d per dozen took place in the price of eggs in Gisborne his week, and the retail price is now 2s a dozen, with the payment to the producer on a basis of Is Bd. The reduction in price is said to be due tc a slackening in the demand rather hnn to any improvement in the rate of production.