COMMERCIAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 July 1925, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON WOOL SALES. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, July 9. At the wool sales there was a good average selection. Competition continues keen for best merinos and all greasy crossbreds. The New Zealand crossbred “Kowbara’ v clip made up to 19d and averaged 16 Jd. The Bradford! tops market is quiet, but there is a hopeful undertone for merinos, while crossbreds are weak. Quotations: Sixty-fours quality, 51d per lb, 60’s, 44d ; oO’s, 34d \SO s, 262'd; 46’s, 21d; 40’s, 20H1.

SOUTH ISLAND PRODUCE. ( B Y TELEGRAPH.-—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 10. Offers for oats are now free from the south at 4s 6d through store for A Cartons and 4s 2d for 33 s, with buyeis hard to find. . ± Potato activity has subsided to some extent. Quotations at the moment for Juiv shipment are £5 15s to £6. The K.atoa is due to leave Lyttelton on Tuesday, but as the stores are cleared out of stocks and as potatoes cannot be dug for some time and the pits will not be opened for a while, the prospects of a sufficient shipment to meet requirements is uncertain. Quotations locally on trucks are to £4 10s, with little offering. There has been a sharp rise in the price of onions, and purchases have been made at .from £9 10s on trucks, sacks extra. There are few local onions available, the season being about over.

DAIRY PRODUCE QUOTATIONS. LONDON, July 9. The butter market is slow. Buyers are stocked up, and are now temporarily holding off. New Zealand butter is quoted at 186 s to 188 s, and Australian 182 s and occasionally 186 s. There is small trade in New Zealand cheese, which is selling at 106 s to 108 s.

STOCK SALES. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Hawera branch, reports : On the 6th inst. at Opunake we conducted our usual fortnightly sale. A small yarding calme forward. Store COWS up to £2 15s, medium yearling, heifers to £2 9s, low conditioned springing heifers £4 to £5 10s. At Palmer Road on the UQt.h irlst. we held our fortnightly sale. Ai medium yarding came forward. Forward cows £5, canners £1 to £2, springing heifers £8 to £lO, calved heifers to £B. • On 7th inst., on account Mr. Fred. EJoskin, Mafcapu, we held a clearing sail© of his high grade Jersey coup and heifers. There was a large attendance, competition being keen, and an excellent sale resulted. Best cows made from £l6 to £2O, medium cows £lO to £l4, backward and aged cows £l3, pedigree 2-year Jersey bulls 10 gns to 13gus, pedigree yearling bulls from ogns to 9gns. At our Kakaramea yards on Bth inst. we held a sale of heifers on account of Mr. R). G. Scowii. A good attendance of buyers wa.s present, and a very satisfactory sale resulted. Best 3-vear Jersey heifers £l2 to £ls 10s, Good Jersey heifers £9 to £l2, backward heifers £6 to £8 10s The Fanners’ Co-op. Society reports as under: The market lias been an active and lively one the past week. Yardings have not bee n particularly heavy, but keen competition has been the order right throughout the offerings. Sheep been eagerly snapped up, and young store cows have found ready buyers. At Hawera. on Thursday,- 9th inst., we had a good yarding, over which keen bidding came forward from a good attendance of buyers. Weaner pigs 20s, prime woolly ewes £2 7s, empty ewes 26s 7d, store wethers 33s 9d, medium hoggets 23s lOd to 245, hoggets 275, aged ewes in lamb B.F. rams 335, good 2-tooth ewes in lamb to Romney rams 41s Id. Prime cows £8 6s, prime heifers £B, fat cows £7 6 S to £7 13s, fat and forward cows £5 to £5 10s, empty young cows £2 10s to £3 10s, good quality yearling heifers £3 12s to £4 10s, small yearling heifer s 25s to 32s 6d. At Waverley on Friday, 10th inst., we had a fair yarding and a good sale. Prime light-weights heifers £6 17s 6d, prime cows £7 15s, forward bullocks £B, forward cows fo £3 10s, wethers 345, iiged we.thqrs 25s 6d, forward empty ewes 25s 9d, B.F. woolly lambs 22s lid. In the dairy pens, 011 account of Mr E. A. Langley: Best cows £lO to £ll 15s, others £7. to £9 10s. backward, late and aged £4 to £6 10s.

DISPERSAE herds. Two very well known herds have been dispersed clnring the week, and record prices have been obtained, which goes to show that la large number of dairymen appreciate a good cow and realise that the high producing animal! is the best proposition,- reports the Farmers’ Co-op., which conducted the wales. At Mr. Albert Ward’s sale on Wednesday the average all over wias £l6 2s, and with one late calvor and two very old cows out, the balance averaged £l7. it is worthy of note that' half the herd was purchased by outside buyers. At Mr. Owen Barry’s sale at Kaupokouui yesterday, competition was particularly keen land most satisfactory prices were obtained. The herd contained 8 cows which do not calve until November and two cows whi cli had calved prematurely, and with these included the average was £l4 10s. The top price was £25 10s and 18 of the herd averaged £2l. Buyers were present from Wlaverley, Manutahi, 11awern and the district surrounding Manaia, and light throughout the sale bidding was very animated Both Mosers. Parry’s and Ward’s herds contained a fair number of mature cows, all'.great types, and it should be remembered that in establishing the records both vendors had seen to it that their herds had had proper care and attention. This is a big factor, as without it the best results are not obtained.