Commercial.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 246, 24 September 1924, Page 8

Commercial.

SYDNEY WOOL AUCTIONS. HEAVY CLEARANCES DAILY. Sydney, Sept. 23. At the wool sales the general competition and keenness of the demand were unabated, and prices were equal to the higheest of the series. Greasy merino touched 39|d, greasy crossbred 31d, scoured 60jd. There have been heavy clearances daily. WHEAT CARGOES QUIET. London, Sept. 23. Wheat cargoes are quiet in sympathy with the American decline, but closed fully steady. Parcels are in fair request. BRADFORD TOPS. On the Bradford tops market business is quiet and quotations firm. Users are unable to follow the London rates. GOLD PRICE. The price of gold is quoted at £4 12s 7d.—(A. and N.Z.) METAL PRICES. London, Sept. 22. Copper: Spot £62 Is 3d; forward £6l Is 3d. Lead: £33 and £32 10s. Spelter: £32 12s 6d and £32 10s. Tin: £227 17s 6d and £229 12s 6d. Silver: Standard 2s lid; fine 3s l|d per ounce.—(A. and N.Z.)

WAIPUKURAU STOCK SALE. The associated auctioneers -report having held their weekly sale at Waipukurau vesterday. when they offered a good yarding of cattle and a small yarding of sheen to a large attendance of the public. The cattle yarded were mostly in low condition, but sold at prices slightly in advance of previous sales • Sheep, of which the offering wa s principally hoggets sold well. Prices ranged as follow: —Fat cows £4 to £7 7s. fat bullocks £B, P.A. and H. empty cows £2 19s to £3 ss, 2-year P.A. heifers £1 16s to £2 3s 6d. yearling heifers £1 to £1 3s, P.A. yearling steers £2 5s 2-year steers £3 2s to £4 17s. 3 and 4-year steers £4 19s to £6 3s, cows and calves £2 18s, fat wethers £2 2s 6d. f. and f. ewes 24s 3d, fat and forward wethers 40s 3d, wether hoggets 27s to 31s 6d, m.s. hoggets 29s 6d. ewe hoggets (small) 26s lid. The various brokers report sales as under:—

Murray, Roberts and Co. Ltd.—7 f. and f. bullocks £7 10s. 8 forward P.A. ‘bullocks £6, 8 2-year steers £4 4s, 6 steer s £3 2s, 1 cow and calf £2 2s 6d. 2 heifers in calf £1 ss, 5 empty heifers £1 12s 6d. 8 weaners £2 2s. 8 empty cows 12s 6d. 3 cows and calves 10s, 75 m.s. hoggets 29s 6d. Dalgety and Co. Ltd.—7 fat cows £5 ss. 50 fat ewes 30s.

H.B. Farmers’ Co-operative Association, Ltd.—l fat bullock £8 ss, 4 fat cows £6 4s 6d. 15 empty dairy heifers 255, 16 store cows £2 19s, 7 at £3, 2 at £3 2s 6d. 7 at £2 15s 1 at £3 17s 6d, 4 at £2 12s 6d 2 at'£l 2s 6d, 2 at £1 10s. 20 at £3 Bs. 18 at £3 ss, 25 at £2 18s,* 3 at £1 17 s 6d, 5 at £3 17s; 10 steers £3 15s 15 at £5 17 s 6d, 5 at £4 12s, 6 at £4 7 S 6d, 11 at £1 17s. 4 at £4 Ils. 1 at £6, 5 at £3 13s, 3 at £3 7 at £3 6s 6d, 18 at £4 2s, 24 at £4 19s. 35 at £6 3s, 21 at £4 17s, 9 at £4 15s. 1 at £2 15s, 3 at £3 11s 7 at £3, 2 at £4 13s, 1 at £3 ss. 2 at 16s, 99 at £2 Bs, 12 at £2 7s; 1 empty heifer £2 15s, 1 at £l, 11 at £1 16s, 16 at £l. 13 at 355, 23 at £2 3s 6d, 2 at £2 ss. 5 at £1 18s; 1 fat bullock £8 ss. 4 fat cows £6 4s 6d, 38 fat ewes 24s 3d. 21 fat wethers £2 2s 6d 260 f. and f. wethers £2 Os 3d. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Ltd. have received the following cablegram from their London house under date 19th. instant:—

New Zealand frozen meat: Lamb, 12d per lb. (average); mutton, wether and maiden ewe, light B|d per lb., heavy 7 3-4 d per lb.; ewe. light 6id, heavy 5 3-4 d; market steady. New Zealand dairy produce, butter, advanced 2 S per cwt.