COMMERCIAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 28 September 1925, Page 10

COMMERCIAL.

FROZEN MEAT. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having received ’the following cablegram from their London House under date of the 24th inst.: —“Frozen meat: Market abnormal owing to strike. Speculation among holders. Prices are unreliab’e and misleading. Pork prices a,re unchanged.” “Wool sales continue active, competition good and mainly Continental. As compared with last sale’s closing rates, fine merino greasy firm, merions of other descriptions fleece rather easier, broad haired merino wools 5 per cent, to 10 per cent, lower; merino pieces and bellies 5 per cent to 7\ per cent higher, crossbred 1 pieces and bellies-par to 5 per cent, higher; greasy halfbred woo's”o per cent, lower; greasy crossbred wools firmer generally to rather dearer; slipe crosbreds and scoured crossbred wools unchanged; merino lambs 5 per cent, higher; crossbred lambs par to 5 per cent, higher. Sale closes Bth October.” WANGANUI STOCK PRICES. At the Wanganui sale on Wednesday, the cattle sold at running values, and pigs at late quotations. Cattle. —Fat cows £5 His to £6 ss, medium fat cows £4 15s to £5 15s, fat heifers £4 17s, forward bullocks' £7 10s to £B, empty cows £3 to £3 I Os, forward heifers £4 15s, Polled Angus heifers £5 9s 6d, empty cows £4 5s to £5 ss, Polled Angus cows £5. yearlings 30s to 40s, 15-months heifers 21s to 50s, dairy cows £3 to £5 ss. Sheep.— Ewe hoggets 32s (id, medium hoggets 255. Pigs.—Best porkers £2 14s to £2 9s, good porkers £2 Is to £2 ■ 7s, medium do 30s to 3(is, stores 22s to 28s, weaners ,10s. to IDs.