COMMERCIAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 215, 10 December 1925, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

WELLINGTON FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKETS. (Special to “Tribune.”) Wellington, Dec. 10. The Wellington fruitbrokers, comprising the firms of Laery and Co., Ltd.. Geo. Thomas and Co., Ltd., Thompson Bros., Ltd.. Townsend and Paul and D. Bowie and Co., report on the fruit and produce market as follows : Owing to heavy supplies of inferior grade fruit coming to hand values are lower. Fancy lines continue to meet with a good demand. The following prices are being realised for fancy grade :— Apples: Delicious 14/- to 15/-; Stunners 10/_ to 11/-; Jonathans 6/to 7/-; Doughertys (Hawke’s Bay) 7/to 8/-; Nelson 6/6 to 7/6; cookers, wanted. Pears: Winter Coles and Nelis 8/io 9/-: Vicars 5/- to 6/-; P. Barry 7/- to 8/-. Hothouse tomatoes: Hutt 1/3; Nelson Bid to- 1/- per lb. Hoti louse cucumbers: 8/- to 12/_ a dozen. Red currants: 5/- to 6/- a half case. Cherries: 5/- to 6/- per box. Strawberries: 9d to lOd per punnet. Peaches: (Hawke’s Bay) Mayflower 16/- to 17/-; Sneeds 7/- to 8/6. Miscellaneous: Gooseberries 3d to 3|d per lb; local lemons 12/- to 14/-; new potatoes 13/- to 14/- a cwt; giec/ peas. Nelson 16/- to 17/- per bag; eggs, fresh, 1/10 to 2/- 1/6: porkers 8d; asparagus 6/- to 7/- a dozen bunches. All poultry wanted. STORTFORD LODGE STOCK SALE MARKET EASIER. The Hawke’s Bay Stock Brokers’ Association report having held the weekly sale at Stdrtford Lodge yesterday, whero there was a. good yarding of both sheep and cattle, which were offered to a large attendance of the public. Th.e market was for nearly all classes of stock, many pens of both sheep and cattle being passer! in. Prices ranged ns follow :—Fat bullocks £lO to £ll 2s. fat cows £4 Is to £7 9s, fat heifers £6 10, vealers 255. 18-month steers £3 to £5 3s. 2-year P.A. heifers £3 4s. 2-year P.A. steers £2, cows and calves £2 ss, fat ewes from 15s 6d to 20s 6d. fat wethers up to 27s 3d, fat lambs 15s. 4-th wethers 22s 3d to 24s Id, 2-tooth wethers 16s 2d to 18s scl. 2 and 4-th ewes 17s 8d to I9s 6d, shorn ewes with lambs 15s 6d, store ewes 9s Th» various brokers report sales as under :— De Pelichet. McLeod and t 0.. Ltd —3 fat cows £3 16. 4 at £6 13s Gd, 2 at £5 6s, 2 at £4 Is. 5 at £5 19s, 5 at £6 10s, 6 at £7 9s; 2 fat heifers £6. 3 at £G 10s; 60 fat ewes 20s Gd. 30 at 18s; 131 fat wethers 265, 54 at 27 3d. 400 f. and f. 4-tooth wethers 24s Id. 330 at 23s lid, 214 2-tooth wethers 17s 6d, 4 store ewes 4 s 6d. Williams and Kettle. Ltd.—s fat bullocks £9. 2 fat cows £5 17s 6d, 4 fat heifers £4 15s. 1 steer £3 Ils. 3 -cows"and calves £2 10s. 1 calf £l_ss, I Jersey bull sgns.. 962 4-tooth wethers 22s 3d. Dalgety and Co., Ltd.—3 steers £4 10s. 1 cull steer 325. 3 fwd. cows £2 ss, 1 store cow £2, 1 3-yr heifer £2 ss, 10 2-yr heifers £1 12s, 20 fat owes M.s, 158 2-th wethers 16s 2d, 153 2-tl< ewes 17s 7d. 22 m.s. 2-ths 10s, 2 store ewes 4s, 1 wether hogget 14s, 34 2-th wethers 14s. 157 2-th ewes 18s 2d. Murray, Roberts and Co., Ltd. —2 fat bullocks £lO 17s Cd. 6 fat cows £5 10s, 1 do £5 Ils Gd. 3 do £5 2s 6d. 1 do. £5 10s, 2 do £5 15s. 3 do £5 ss, 1 for. cow £3. 50 fat and forward | wethers 23s 9d. 6 wethers 15s 3d. N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.—9 fat lambs 15s, 9 ewes with*lambs 10s 10 forward ewes 9s. 27 fat ewes l 17s 9cl, 7 woolly ewes with lambs 12s 7d all counted. 24 fat Owes 15s Gd, 22 2-tooth wethers 17s Gd. 49 2 and 4-tooth ewes 17s Bd, 1 fat heifer £3 13s 3 vealers 10s. 1 cow in calf £3. 20 2-tooth wethers 18s. 13 store ewes 2s 7d. 80 ewes with limbs 7s 9d all counted. 11.8. Farmers’ Co-operative Association Ltd.—4 fat bullocks £ll. 4 do £9 10s, 5 do £ll 2s, 1 springing heifer £2. 2 fat heifers £4, 1 fat cow £5. 1 vealer 355, 1 fat cow £4 10s. 19 S.H. heifers £3 4s. 19 P.A. 2-yr steers £f3s, 19 P.A. yearling steers £3 ss. 8 P.A. steers £3 12s, 6 do £2, G do. 355, 12 fat ewes 19s. 102 2-th wethers 18s sd. 151 do 17s lOd, 137 2-th ewes 18s, 171 do 19s Gd. 2G m.s. 2-ths 8s Id. 51 2-th ewes 19s, 41 m.s. hoggets IGs.