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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 March 1926, Page 6

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KAPONGA SALE,. Messrs Newton King, Ltd., report having held their usual monthly sale at Kaponga on Friday last, when a good number of buyers attended. The yards were packed with cattle, some of- which were brought as far afield as Matapu, Manaia and Te Kiri. Prices were about on. a par with late rates, arid the whole yarding was quitted. Quotations were as follows :—Fat lambs, 22s 6d ; store lambs, 11s 7d to 13s 6d; pigs, 15s to 31s 6d; wearier calves, 12s to £2 ss: cull cows, £1 to £2'os; works cows,, £2 10s to £4; fat cows, £4 10s to £5 10s : bulls, £3 to £4 12s 6d.

DAIRY PRODUCE. HIGH COMMISSIONER’S REPORT. The Department of Agriculture has received the, following cablegram, dated March 6, from the High, Commissioner for New Zealand. London: BUTTER. Market slow. Official quotations are: New Zealand. —Finest salted, 168 s to 170 s per cwt (Is 6d to Is 6did per lb),; exceptional, 172 s per cwt (Is did per ; b. Unsalted, 170 s to 172 s per cwt (Is 6fd to Is 6id per lb); exceptional, 174 s per cwt (Is 6Jd per lb.) Other qualities, 144 sto 162 s per cwt (Is 3id to- Is oid per lb). Australian.—Salted, 162 s to 164 s and up to 166 s per cwt (Is sfd to Is s} : d and up to Is ofd per !b). Unsalted.: March 6,166 s to 168 s per cwt (Is ofd to Is 6d per lb). Other qualities (urisalted), 140 s to 160 s per owt (Is 3d to Is 5d per lb). Argentine.—Unsalted : 154 s to 166 s per cwt (Is 4Jd per lb); exceptional, up to 160 s per cwt (Is 5d per ]b). Other qualities, 140 s to 162 s per cwt (Is 3d to- Is 4Jd per lb). , Danish. —190 s to 192 s per cwt (Is Bi'd to Is 8-id per lb). CHEESE. Colonial, slow. Official quotations are:— . . . , English.—Finest farmers’ (scarce). 140 s to 145 s per cut (Is 3d to Is 3}d per lb) Canadian. —Coloured and white, 106 s to 108 s up to 110 s p,er cwt ,(llid, 11-id, Ilfd per lb), New Zealand.—Coloured, 99s to 101 s -per owt (10id to lOfd per lb) ; exceptional. 102 s per owt (lOfd -per lb). New Zealand.—White, 97-s to- 995, up to IOOs per cwt (10id, 10-id and lOfd per lb). Australian. —Coloured -and white, 96s to 98s per cwt (IOJ-d to lOid per lb). Shipments of New Zealand produce arrived this week per s.s. Port Pixie and Pakehri.

DUNEDIN WOOL SALES

DUNEDIN, March 10.

The advance in wool value® which' up. to yesterday was, somewhat indefinite was quite manifest when the Dunedin series was resumed! this morning, a modest estimate being from -id to Id all round. The top price this morning was 21 fd for merino. LONDON WOOL SALES. BY CA RLE —PEKSS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIOIII’. Received 11.35 a.m. to-dav. LONDON, March 9. The wool sales have opened, prices are mostly unchanged, and stipes are rather easier.—A. and N.Z. 'Assn.