COMMERCIAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 193, 20 July 1925, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

WELLINGTON MARKETS. W. Burbidgo and Co., fruit auctioneers and produce merchants, Wellington. report a dull demand for most apples, excepting fancy grade cookers well. Cooking pears are selling well. Pumpkins are in good demand. Kggs are easier. Vegetables are much higher. Walnuts are wanted. Current prices are as follows:—Delicious (fancy) Gs to 7s, spot 4s to ss. Sturmers (fancy) Gs to 7s, spot 4s to ss: Washingtons (fancy) good sizes, Gs 6d to 7s; other cookers cookers 5s to 6s; pears: Winter Coles and Nelis 10s to. 12s; Keiffors ; n I other cookers 5s 6d to Gs 6d, all bushel cases; red pumpkins 12s to 13s; grey 10s; carrots 7s to 8s; cabbage 16s to 20s; cauliflower 20s to 255, all full sacks; eggs 2s 8d to 2s lOd dozen ; walnuts Is to Is 2d per ib. ; potatoes. Red Dakotas £8 15s j.or whites and red skins £8 a ton ; onions 16s to 17s 61 cwt. LONDON MARKETS. Tho Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Co.. Lid., has received the following cablegram from their London house under dale 15th inst:—Tallow: Wo quote present spot values'for the following descriptions:—Fine mutton 47s 9d i>er cwt, good beef 47s 3d. mixed 41s Gd. Market active. New Zealand butter: Choicest salted 186 s to 190 s per cwt, unsalted 192 s to 1945. Market slow. Cheese: 107 s to 108 s per cwt. Market firm. Dalgcty and Co., Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London office, dated July IGth :—Butter, market firm; N.Z. salted 190 s per cwt, Danish 192 s per cwt finest Australian 186 s. finest Australian unsalted 190 s: 575,000 cwts of butter were imported into tho United Kingdom last month, as against 412,000 cwt. for the same period last year. Cheese, market firm : N.Z. white and coloured 108 s to 109 s, Canadian 104 s to 108 s.

LONDON WOOL SALES.

The fourth series continue fairly animated, but lately reported rates are hardly maintained for the finest wools, and all other descriptions are rather tower. We think Continental buyers have filled many of their orders as they are not buying so freely. Sheepskin Sales.—Good attendance of buyers and competition from Home trade, Continent and America. As compared with sales merino combing skins very firm; crossbred combing sk’ns 7} per cent higher on the average. Closing skins firm. WEEKLY’ MARKET REPORTS. GILL BROS. Messrs. Gill Bros, report a successful weekly «ale at tho mart on Saturday last. The sale was well attended and as entries were good tho business done was satisfactory. Tn the dairy cattle section tho beasts submitted did not quite reach their owners’ reserve, but a subsequent snip was made. The entries and prices obtained for poultry anil pigs show that, these markets are buoyant and pigs should be very realisable stock in the near future. All sundries offered were well sold and the special sale at .3 p.m. hold Before a packed attendance. There will he . snecial features at this «nle next 1 Satnrday. l*»irns wejwi ns follows:— I Poult’-v: Wliho T-eghorn nullcts 14/ nnir. Brown Leghorn pullets 10'6. T’okin <lrnke« 9'- to 9/4 pair, ordinary I hens 7 '- to 8 'lO pair. 1 R.O. cockerel G/'l. nl-din-rv cockerels 7/6 tn R/6 pq!r. Pigs: Wenners 91/- tn 21/- enrh. liarht norkors 32/6. medium porkers 99/6 to £2 10/-. baooners £2 10'- tn £.9 T)nir” Cattle; Jersey cross rhw nn drop £5 10'-. others not reaching owners’ reserves. I • CnlnnvUn -Cl lO'_ sot harness £3 10 '-. ndd harness P 1 in'_. rn,l r ]lp 97'6. m-ul R'6 rrncsnnt c nw 15'-. n-al iron £l 10'-lo’T-n rmu-n-s £1 5'- n rvl £o O'C InJv’c ULn £1 10'- liorsn nnynrs o s'- n’v'l I on >-nno dnehoce oheef. £5. graw»onhnn« P. 5 ,A In»*rrn ns«nrt- ■ nvonf. of plnc+nrers* and hrinklavers’ i tools wore snl/| nt market rates. ’ Vruif an/l Prnduon • Annies .3'- tn 4 hnlf-nnsn loirnns I'6 Jo? . nntatnac I1 1 /(• «nr.V. oninnq °'6 •• >n hontront 94 Imn'lln. nnrrnts 1 '3 to fin. nnrenins > kirn P] oqnh nnbhnrroS 1«1 ff”'l 5-1 onnli. on nl i Pnn-n-q 7'l /'"'•b. »"n rm’—'” n«\pfi . maize R'6 sack. I.alorl bar 9'9 halo. BFABD, BUTI.T-N AND CO. Beard, Bullen and Co. report having had a big attendance at their market sale on Saturday, when they offered a' good all-round entry of pigs, poultry, and dairy stock. The demand for poultry was exceptionally keen, and good prices were realised; weancr pigs also sold well, bringing up to 26/-. I’rices were as follows :— Poultry: Prime fat. hens 7/6 to 9/-, laying hens to 12/8, others 6 - to 7/-, ducks 5/6 io 7/-, drakes 7/- io 8/-, gees© 15/6, cockerels (small) 3 - to 5 - others 5/8 to 8/10, trio Campine fowls 12 -, P.B. cockerels 25/- (all at per pair). Pigs; Light porkers 35/- to 36/6, weaner§ 17/- to 26/-, stores to 32/-, choppers 55/- to 60/-. Dairy stock, horses, etc: Jersey cross cow £8 2/-. Jersey cow £7 15/-. S.H. cross cow £8 12/6. Jersey cow aged £5 5/-, Jersey cross heifer £6 15/-; roan mare £7 2/6, calf 3/-, Jersey heifer £3 12/6. Fruit and produce: Apples 1/6 to 4'6. pears (ripe) 1 6 per casc, carrots 2/-, parsnips 2/-, potatoes 2/6, swedes 2/(por tin), oranges 1/3, lemons 2/- per dozen, hay 29, straw 16 per bale, hams 9d ]jor lb., potato£\s 12 6 to 17 - per sack. The firm also disposed of a large quantity of sundries, including traps for £2 10/- and 30/-. buggy 20/-, bike £4 10/-. radiator 22'6. lawn mowers 10/- and 11/-, grit mill 15/-, sot harness £3 10/-.