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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 August 1924, Page 3

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TALLOW SALES. SY GABLB —PKKSS > 88001 A Tints—OOPYRTOH'; LONDON, Aug. 20. At the tallow sales 805 casks were offered and 329 sold. Prices are unchanged.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . FOREIGN EXCHANGES. LONDON, Aug. 20. The latest exchange rates are: Paris, 8340 francs; New York, 448|clollars. The decline is apparently due largely to selling by profit-takers.— Aus.-N.Z. Cahe Assn. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. SYDNEY, Aug. 21. Oats.—Tasmanian and Algerian, Is Id, 4s 3d;-White Giants, 4s fid, 4s 9d. Maize. —Tasmanian, £7 10s, ,£’B 10s; Victorian, £6. Onions.—Victorian, £’ls. .£’l6 ADELAIDE. Aug. 21. Oats.—3s. AUCKLAND SHAREMARKET. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) , AUCKLAND, Aug. 21. Stock Exchange Sales.—-War Loan, 1939, £97 17s fid; New Zealand inscribed, 1927-41, £9B 7s fid; Commercial Bank, 29s lOd; Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. (pref.), £57; Auckland Gas Co., £79; Auckland Gas Co. (contrib.), bs; Northern Steamship Co., dfis fid; Kauri Timber Co., 30s; Wellington Woollen Co. (ex dividend) £G IDs; Wailn. 295. 2.9 s 9d; Zeelian Consolidated. 7s fid. WELLINGTON WOOL SALES. WELLINGTON, Atig. 21. , A catalogue of 200 bales of crutches was offered by local brokers today and attracted a large attendance, the buyers including Japanese representatives. Prices for higher grades in the early part of the sale were a tarthmg down, and prices for lower grades ranged from par to a fnrthinodown. The prices realised ranged from iA 4 -d to 164c1, the latter being for balfor scou,, ed crutchings up to loci was refused. Competition was not keen and a good many lots were passed in, the reserves being considerably higher than the buyers ideas of values. Nineteen pence was realised for a classical skirted lot of crossbred A (three bales).

N FAY TON KING’S IhHPOHT. At Douglas on the 11th inst. wo had a good yarding; of .sheep and store and dairy eattle. Prices on the whole were on a level with late rates and a lull clearance was effected. Fwes in land) •‘IVv hoggets 21s. in.a. wethers 3<)s, store cows 28. s (id to .‘lds fid. hulls .‘l2s to -10 s. crossbred yearling heifers 21s. mixed sorts dairy cows £3 to £7, good sorts do. £l2. in calf heifers £o’ ~ At Stony River on the 12th August we had a good entry of store and dairy eattle, and report as follows: Yearling heifers 20s to 295, empty heifers 32s to 3fis. store cows 22s to 37 s fid, fat eow;s £o 9s to £d 17s fid. hulls’ £2 springing Jersey heifers £lB, Short.liorn springing heifers -|.- )S ’to fiOs, enlved dairy cows £fi 10s to £l| 10s,’ springing dairy cows £G 10s to £ll 10s. inferior sorts £.‘l 10s to .Co 10s. At Waiwakaiho on the l-!th inst dairy eattle made up the hulk of tlm cfl erijig, and a good clearance was made. Yearling heifers 2.‘ls fid to 30 s store cows 21s to 375, boner hulls £2, Jersey and Jersey cross springing heifeis £o 10s to £9 10s, crossbred sprin<rpl? i ,eifers . 9,r)s - salved cows £( 10s to £8 os. springing cows (good sorts) £8 to £l4. dairy cows (inferior sorts) 03 10s to £7 10s.

At Waitui on the 7th inst. we held a good sale on account of Mr. J. Johnstone. The herd was practically a .Holstein one. Competition was keen throughout, and for the. class of cows the sale was one of the rnosi suceess. fnl we have conducted thA vear iorV'l'n" heifers 24s fid. farm horses -3d 10s to £3,. Holstein cows Au>*• o a r!T\ n lo T tn £l7 10s ‘ Re P l ‘ oalve?s r.i* •Tersey-Holstem cows up to 10s, m c-alf heifers £3 to £5.