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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 November 1924, Page 8

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■BRADFORD TOPS MARKET. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT: LONDON, Qet. 30. The Bradford tops market has an improved tone, and there is a- slight increase in Business. Quotations aie unchanged. LONDON METAL MARKETS. LONDON, Oct. 30. Copper.—Spot, £63 8s 9d: forward, £64 Ms 3d. Lead. —-£37 10s and £35 10s. Spelter.—£34 6s 3d and £34 Is 3d. Tin.—£2s7 17s 6d and £257 12= Gel. Silver.—Standard 34 15-16 d per oz; fine, 37 11-16 d per oz. LONDON CEREAL MARKETS. LONDON,, Oct. 30. Wheat cargoes are steady and occasionally higher, bit election interests interfered with trade. Parcels aie quiet at an advance c.f three-pence. Spot trade is very qfciet. Australian is nominally 61s ex store. Flour is steady. Australian is quoted at 47s 6d ex store. Oats are meeting with fair trade, A grade Gartons selling at 32s to 355. Peas. —Maples are dull. Tasmanian are quoted at 75s to 78s, and New Zealand at 62s to 70s. Blues are firmer, Tasmanian realising 380 s to 4205, and New Zealand 340 s to 3605. New Zealand beans are quiet at 50s. Granulated sugar is quoted at 37s 10$ d. AUCKLAND SHAREMARKET. AUCKLAND, Oct. 31. Stock Exchange sales. —New Zealand Brewery debentures, 21s 6d; Bank of New Zealand, 59s 6d; Waihi, 27s 3d. ADDINGTON MARKET. (by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATIONCHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 29. The Addington market sale to-day was very irregular, both in the mutton and beef se tions. The former opened briskly, but sagged in the later stages, with occasional pens making top prices, whilst beef also receded in value. Store Sheep.—A very small varding, mostly ewes and lambs. There was a little more freedom in the sale than last week. A good line of ewes and lambe, all counted, made 295,, forward, sound and failing mouthed shorn wethers 29s 3d, sound and failing mouthed shorn wethers 24s Bd, small two and four-toothed shorn wethers 25s 2d, shorn wether hoggets 24s 3d to 24s 4d, three-quarter-bred woolly wether hoggets 345, sound-mouthed crossbred ewes and Down lambs 295, good aged three-quarter-bred ewes and lambs 23s 2d, aged crossbred ewes and lamvs 19s 3d to 21s 6d. Fat Lambs.—A smaller yarding of 191, compared with 330 last week? A spirited sale, and an advance of 2s 6d a head. Prices ranged from 30s to 40s. Fat Sheep.—A smjjl yarding and a sharp advance from the outset, but in the later stages the sale was irregular. Generally, however, values were up on last week by Is 6d per head. Extra prime woolly wethers made up to 62s 6d, shorn 47s 3d, prime woolly wethers 54s to 58s, shorn 42s to 47s 3d, medium Avoolly wethers 49s 6d to 53s 6d, shorn 37s 6d to 41s, light woolly 43s to 48s 6d, extra prime woolly ewes 60s, prime 48s to 535, shorn 36s to 465, medium woolly 42s 6d to 47s 6d. shorn 28s 6d to 355. Fat Cattle.—-A heavy yarding of about 500 head, and an advance in value in the earlier stagps, but a later easing, values, being most irregular. Best beef averaged from 43s 6d to 47s 6d per 1001 b, and medium from 38s to 435. Extra prime heavy r weight steers made £23 ss, prime medium £lB 10s to £2l. medium £l6 to £lB, light £l2 10s to £ls 10s, rough £9 to £l2, extra prime heifers £l6 to £l7 12s 6d, prime £l2 15s to £ls, medium £9 10s to £l2 10s, light £6 to £9, extra prime cows £l6, prime £l2 to £l4. ordinary, £9 to £ll 15s, aged £4 to £8 10s. Vealers.—Good stuff sold well. Runners made up to £7 15s, good vealers £6 ss, calves £4 15s. Store Cattle. — -There was scarcely so good a sale as last week. Three'and rour-year-old steers made up to £7. _ Fat Pigs. A flooded market, entries being forward from Dargaville (north of Auckland), Kaikoura and Murchison (Nelson). It was the largest yarding for the past two years, and nrices receded. Chopners realised! from £2 10s, heavy £4 5s to £4 10s, extra heavy £4 9s (average price per lb 7d to /id), jight porkers £2 7s to £2 18s lb £ to 8d) t 0 (aV€rage Price Store Pigs—a keen sale. Small weaners made from 20s to 275, good 295.t0 365, small stores 35s to 40s, medium 46s to 48s, large 55&. BURNSIDE STOCK SALE. DUNEDIN, Oct. 29. M Burnside sales to-dav there waS a drop of about £1 per head in fat oattle prices, and values for sheep, lambs, and pigs were somewhat easier There was a fair sale, of store cattle. Fat Cattle.—A varding of 253 head compared with 256 last week. The duality was mixed, but the proportion prime animals was very fair but the entry included a number of unfinished bullocks and plain cows. The opening demand was quiet, and there w'vs a reduction of about £1 per head sll round. Prime handyweight ox h.?of sold a,t from 46s to 47s per 100 lb. prime heavyweights and medium quality ox to 455, prime heifers to and prime shorn wethers to 7s. Eixtra oHme bullocks £25 ss, prime £l7 to £2:), medium £l4 to £l6 10s, light £lO heifers (extra prime) £l4 10 s prime £lO to £l3 10s, medium £8 8s £l9 10s, light and aged £5 10s to £7. Fat Pheep.—An entry of 1428 head, over half of them in wool. The quality was somewhat mixed, but there was a "ond proportion of prime animals. The demand at the opening was a shade stronger, but eased later. Butchers were not too keen, having some sheep on band, and outside buyers kept the sale alive, however, and there was '(une improvement as it progressed on an irregular market. Woolly sheep declined about 2s per bead, and shorn cheep were unchanged. Prime handy- ‘ ''•rd.vhf. wethers, in the wool, brought from 81<1 to 9d per lb. ex La heavy wethers from Bsd to Sid, prime ewes to 7d, a"ed ewes Gd. and prime shorn wethers to 7d. Extra prime heavy wetheiis sold at from 62s to 63s 6d. prime heavy 52s to 58s, others 43s 3d to !0s 31. extra prime heavy ewes ••oßlised prices up to 50s Gd, prime h'-’vv IQs to 435, lisrhter 33s to 395. Fat Lambs.—A more plentiful supply, 53 being yarded. The quality was rrr >' u l and the best quality sold well, but there was a general fall towards Urn close of the sale, particularly in lie-liter lambs. Prime lamb sold at Lorn 11 $d to Is Id per lb. second qualitv r-mnd about lid. Extra, prime brought from 4Gs to 48s Gd. prime 36s to 39s 6d. medium 29s Gd to 345, unfinished 27s to 28s Gd. Store Cattle.—A yarding of about 150 head. The offering included 25 ‘

forward, well-bred three and four-year-old bullocks. The first pen of these met with a good demand at from £lO 5s tio £lO 12s 6d, others sold at from £8 15s. Cows met with a good demand, and it was a good sale for anything well bred.

Pigs:—An entry of 156 fats, and a good number of stores. - 'Prices dropped 5s or 6s per head.. Baconers sold at up to Bd, and porkers to Bsd per lb. There was a medium lot of young sorts and stores, which , were, cleared at average ruling rates. •CANTERBURY MARKETS. CHRISTCHURCH. Oct. 31 Business is generally quiet at this time of the year, but it is particularly quiet on the present occasion, because, generally speaking, the stores are pretty well bare. Some, forward business is reported in potatoes, which have been sold for April, May, and •June delivery at £5 5s to £5 10s f.0.b., sacks in, which is equal to about £4 to farmers on trucks. Not much spot business is being done, whites being hard to dispose of at £6 10s and Dakotas at £5 10s. B Gartons have been. sold for forward delivery at 8s 10d f.0.b., sacks in. Partridge peas are quiet at 7s f.o.b.s.i. The market- for cocksfoot is fairly firm «t 13*d for standard Akaroa' seed f.0.b.5.i,, but buyers’ ideas of values are about Id less than this figure. Chaff is firm at £9 5s to £9 f.o.b.s.i. FARMERS’ CO-OP. REPORT. At Waverley, on Friday, 31st inst., we had a small yarding owing to the inclement weather. A small line of woolly hoggets made 33s 9d, and a few ewes and lambs brought 46s Id, two-year-old bullocks £3 12s 6d, two-year empty heifers £3 8s to £3 12s, yearling Holstein heifers £4 3s, yearling Jersey bulls £6 6s, two-year Jersey bull £ls. LONDON MARKETS. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London house under date- 99th mst. “Tallow.—Me quote present spot values for the following descriptions -d l ' e oi mut^ on T^ s per cvvt ’ g°«d beet o°s 9d. mixed 465. Market- quiet'. New Zealand Dairy Produce—Butter choicest sailed 224 sto 228 s per cwt ; market weak. Cheese, 96s to 98s per cwt-; market quiet.’’ 1 Dalgetv and Company, Limited, report having received- the following cablegram trom their London house unaer date ot the 29th "inst.:—“Tallow; : 1310 casks offered, 355 casks sold.l rices are unchanged.’’ , p he Bank of New Zealand produce depiirtinent has received the following advice (rom its London office, unde?date October 29:—“Tallow: The demand is rather quiet, but prices show no quotable change.” FROZEN MEAT QUOTATIONS. Eliott, Ltd.., Palmerston North, have received cable advice from Messrs Gilbert Anderson .arid Co. Ltd., London, of the following Smithfield prices for the past week ending October 3i, 1924 These prices are on the delivered ’ basis, that is, includes storage charges, cartage, etc.: best North Island prime crossbred lambs, under 42, 12fd; ordinary North Island lambs, under 42 12|d. ‘second quality under 42 12d; best North Island wethers and/or maiden ewes 48 56 B}d. 56/64 81d, 64/72 Td ordinary North Island wethers- and/or - ■ 48/66--83d, 56/64 Bld. ewes, under 64 6 ? d. 64/ /2 6fd, over 72 6Jd; New Zeala.nd prime ox beef (equal fores and hnids) 160/220 4sd. Remarks: Mutton and lamb, no change; beef, Id higher.