COMMERCIAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 37, 26 January 1911, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

FROZEN MEAT.

THE LONDON MARKET

! The New Zealand Lean and Mer- ' eantile Agency Co.. Ltd., have re i reived the following advice from their London house under date 16th Decerflber :—Frozen meat: A fair demand has ruled for frozen mutton and values for New are unchanged, I.* with forwi quantities of Australian offering. | prices have ruled in buyers’ favour. For lambs there has been a good enquiry and prices for all descriptions have been well maintained. \i But little business has been passing in frozen beef, buyers giving their attention to chilled, which continues plentiful and cheap. We; quote Canterbury sheep 4jd toj l.ld. lamb 5! to 6d per lb. North Is land sheep 3id to lamb sjd to sjd ; Australian sheep to 3|d, lamb 5d to 5A ; New Zealand beef i 2£d to 3]d. WOOL AND SKIN SALES. Mr. J. A. r Miller reports holding ! his usual monthly sale of wool, skins. [ ides. fats, and oddments, when he offered a good catalogue, ee-mprit-ing 107 hides 31 bales and lings of wool, and a good catalogue . of skins, to a good attendance of buyers. Following are tin* prices j realised :— I

Ox hides, heavy. (>i’d to 6jd, averaging from 3-1 9 to £2 4 1 each ; nmdiuni, s*d to 6i:d ; light and cut. 4.l'd to 5.1 d ; row hides. 5d to s’d ; station, etc.. 4l>d to Wool, fleece 7.td to Old, black 5d to 6sd. lambs 7d to dead o’.d to 7.1 d. Pelts, 7d to 1/- each. Skins. 6d to Fat. 2]d to 2.1 d.

LIVE STOCK.

STORTFORD LODGE.

The Associate.] Hawke’s BayStock Auctioneers held yesterday at Stortford Lodge their weekly sale of cattle* and sheep. There*, was a fair attendance of buyers, and • the sale resulted in a good clearance of stock. Fat < attic consisted mainly bullocks of light weights, which sold at good prices. Store cattle, principally 2 ami 3-ycar-old steers, met a good trade and all sold. Fat sheep were in fair numbers and were all well competed for. Store sheen consisted of liens of forward ewes and wethers, forward lambs, and 2 and 4-tooth wethers, forward lambs, and 2 and 4-tooth wethers, all of which only met fair competition, a few pens being passed in. Dairy cows sold well.

Williams and Kettle. Limited, at Stortford Lodge, sold the following:—9 fat bullocks £7 12,6, 1 fat cow £5, I fat cow £4 15. - fat cow £.3 18/-, ,20 cows and 19 calves £4 15»-, 5 15-month steers £3, 7 meaner heifers 21 15 2! year steers £4. 35 3-year steers £5 9 -. dry cow £3 6-. milch cow £2 )4 39 fat ewes 9 11. 12 fat wethers 12 I, 33 forward wethers and ewes 8 7.

Murray, Roberts and Company, Limited, report the following sales:

87 mixed sex cull lambs 6 -. 3t>() cull lambs shorn 2 6. 2 Southdown rams £2 4-, 8 Border Leicester rams I 7 -. 1 Shropshire ram £l. Cattle: 2 forward steers £5 15 -. J fat cows £5 11, fat cows (light; £l 7.6. The Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Coopirativc Association. Limited, report the following sales at Stortford Lodge yards yesterday : —lO fat bullocks £8 10 Bat £8 2/-, 1 ar £6 15 -. 7 2 year steers ,£3 ; 16 -, J heifer £2 10 -. Sheen : !G fat wethers 15 -. 22 at 13 3. 32 fat ewes 9 6. IB at 119. 33 s.m. ewes 26, 19 at I 6. 67 2-tooth ewes' anil wethers 9-. 14 Romney ranis 4 -, 363 rape lambs 8 3. 90 2-tooth wethers 9 3, stio shorn lambs 8 - 491 brown

lambs 3 I, 110 ewes anil lambs 3 6. 3 Romnev rams 4 6.