COMMERCIAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 272, 2 November 1916, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON WOOL SALES. London, Nov. 1. There were large offerings of slipes and prices were unchanged at recent, rates, Merinos were fully maintained. SHARES. London, Nov. 1. Bank of Australasia £ll6, New South Wales £35 17/6, Union £53 15/-, New Zealand £Bl, ex dividend £lO 12/6, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. ordinary £B7, others unchanged. SUGAR COY. RETURNS. Sydney, Nov. 1. The Colonial Sugar Co', declared a half-yearly profit of £143,004 and a dividend of per cent, per annum and carried forward £122,853. STORTFORD LODGE STOCK SALE. Dalgetv and Co., Ltd.—l steers at £l2 8 do at £B, 9 do at £lO 10/-, 7 heifers at £6 14/-, 13 yearling steers at £5 9/-, 83 fat- w’ethers at 41/-, 1 fat ewe at 35/-, 54 forward ewes at 29/1. Williams and Kettle, Ltd.—& dairy heifers £6 7/6, 3 stders £l3 14/-, 3 bullocks £l5 11/-, 3 cows £l3, 24 fat ewes 40/-, 165 m.s. hoggets 24/-, 219 do 29/-, 96 ewes with lambs 40/-. The Haw ke’s Bay Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association, Ltd. —2 heifers £4 15/-, 15 ewes and lambs 23/6, 46 do 44 /3, 23 f. and f. ewes 30/-, 85 fat ewes 39/-. N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.. Ltd.—ll bullocks £l3’lo/-, 7 forward heifers £lO 7/6, 8 2-year steers £lO, 12 buLocks £l5 19/6, 12 bullocks £lB 3/6, 20 bullocks £l5 11/-, 14 bullocks £l6 9/6, 12 bullocks £l6, 8 bullocks £l4 6/6. 10 forward heifers £l2 2/6, 8 bullocks £l5 2/-, 4 bullocks £l5 17/6, 1 Jersey bull £l2 1/-, 1 yearling bull £3, 2 yearling heifers £5 11/-, 1 forward cow £9 4/-, 1 cow in profit £lO 10/-, 5 fat cows £ll 2/-, 1 2-yr steer £8 6/-, 1 2-yr heifer £8 2/-, 61 fat ew’es 34/7, 20 fat ew’es 31/9, 116 fat w’ethers £2 5/7, 119 fat and forward ew’es 26/6, 58 ewes with lambs £2 5/-, 14 fat and forward ewes 31/-. Murray, Roberts. —157 forward ewes 29/-, 23 do 30/-, 4 ew’es in lamb 32/-, 35 forward wethers 37/-, 28 hoggets 32/6, 10 forward ewes 27/-, 51 fat ewes 32/6, 110 forward ew’es 28/7, 16 forward ewes 27/-, 16 do 24/-, 12 fat ew’es 31/'-. 7 ewes in lamb 34/6, 8 fat heifers £l2 2/6, 8 fat cow’s £l2 8/6, 2 bullocks £l7, 2 2-year old heifers £6 5/-, 5 steers £l3 "7/6, 28 2-year-old steers £lO 5/-, 23 4 to 5-vear-old cows £l2, 27 do £ll 10/-, 1 calf £2 16/-* 1 cow in calf £lO 17/6, 1 forward cow £9 10/-, 2 2-year old Jheifers £5 5/-.