COMMERCIAL.

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

COMMERCIAL.

BUTTER AND CHEESE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON Nov. 6. The butter market is dull, buyers holding, off in view of large prospective supplies. Germans are greatly restricting the purchases of Danish, which has declined to about 218 s to 2205. ' New Zealand is scarce. Choicest brings 212 s to 2145, and exceptionally good lots 218 sto 2205. Australian, i94s to 1965: unsalted, 202 s to 208 s. Cheese. —Market quiet. Prices unchanged. WOOL SALES. LONDON, Nov. 6. Bradford tops—Firm market. Good enquiry and fair business passing. Sixty-fours quality quoted at 78d: 60’s, 72d; 56’s, old; 50’s, 39d; 46’s, 30d. ANTWERP, Nov. 6. At the wool sales 4800 bales were offered and about 1600 sold, high limits causing many lots to be withdrawn. Merinos were fully on a par with September prices. Crossbreds advanced 5 per cent. MARKET REPORT. The Farmers’ Co-op. Society, report : —. At Auroa on Friday, the 7th inst., we had a medium yarding, everything selling well up to vendors’ sati£ faction. Me quote: Fat cows .to 12s 6d, forward cows £4 to £4 16s, works arid boner cows at late rates’ best yearling heifers £4 17s 6d, (dairy heifers to. £7, second ca-lvers £7, best grade bulls lOgns to 13gns, yearling pedigree bulls Bgns to lOgns. works bulls £2 15s to £5 15s LOAN AND MERCANTILE, ,The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. ; (Hawera branch), report: — At Elthnm on sth inst. we had a medium yarding and report a clearance at satisfactory prices. We report: Fat cows £5 10s to £6, forward cows £3 to £4, works cows £1 2s 3d to £2 Bs, 'empty 2-year Jersey heifers (good) £4 Is, good medium Jersey yearling heifers £4 to £4 2s 6d, maiden Jersey bulls £5 10s to £9 10s. pedigree yearling Jersey bull 12J guineas, works bulls £2 10s, fat and forward ewes (in wool) 31s, springing heifers £4 to £6, calved ditto £3 10s to £5 10.4, cows (medium) £S to £9 others £4 10s. At Hiawera on 6th inst. we had a good yarding and disposed of the hulk of the entry at the following prices: Bulls were a little easier, but maiden Jerseys sold well. We quote: Fat cows £5 7s 6d to £6 16s, forward cows -£3 15s to £4 2s 6d, young empty Jersey sound cows £2 12s 6d to £3 ss, works cows £2 to £3, medium Jersey yearling heifers £2 12s 6d Lo £3 7s, others £1 17s 6d, maiden Jersey bulls £7 to £9 9s, store pigs (medium) 28s 6d, ditto (small) 19s rd, sow in pig (medium) £3, dairy heifers waived and springing (medium) £3 10s to £6 10s, cows (ditto) £5 to £7.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their T/ondon house, under date sth inst.: — Present spot values for the following descriptions are: Fine mutton 52s per ewt., good beef 50s. mixed 455. Market quiet. New Zealand dairv proButter, choicest salted 220<5 to 224 s per owt. Market dull, with down"uvd tendency. Cheese, 96s to 98s per cwt. Market dull.