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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 23 August 1919, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

AUSTRALIAN MAEKETS

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT SYDNEY. Aug. 21. Oats—Algerian feeding 5s 6d to 5s Bd, nulling 5s 9d; Tasmaniah 6s 3d to 6s 6d. Raney: Cape 5s to os 3d. Maize: 7s 6d. Potatoes: Tasmanian £18. Onions: £16 to £18. ADELAIDE, Aug. 21. Outs: 4_ 101 d.

LONDON MARKETS

LONDON, Aug. 21. Home grown wheat of the i 919 harvest will be offered millers at an average price of 71s lid per 4801ns. At the wool sates there-was a good ™ct'on of merinos and fine crossbreds. J here has been competition in all sections. Prices aro firmer. Wheat—Market quiet at revised rates. Australian parcels untreated so'-d at 61s on passage and 63s ex store. Flour—A fair demand. Small allocations of imported sold at 46s 3d. Oats, Iwo.ns, and peas—Market linn, but un-.--hanged. Sugar—Market unchanged. £10° 17s 6d, forward r\Z-l7s^' Electrolytic, £115. lead, £24 i/s 6d and £25 10s, SpelW £272 los and £269 5s Silver, (JOjd an mince, a record, fi '

NEWTON KINGS REPORT

At Rahotu on the loth inst. yearling heifers realised £2 10s to £3 10s yearling steers £4 ls, smaller sorts £2, mixed yearlings £4 Is, 2-yea r empty heifers £6 to £6 16s, fat heifer £11 ss, forward conditioned cows (light) £8 Ms to £9 10s. store do. £5 to £7 10s, 20-month in-«alf heifers (small) £6 lie to £6 17 s 6d. dairy cow s £12 to £20, old and backward sorts £9 to £11. At Urenui on the 18th inst. yearling steers made £3 19s to £4 19s yearling heifers (small) £3 to £4 Is' mixed yearlings £3 12s 6d to £4- 2_year steers £6 6 S to £7, 20-month do. (small) £5 2s, 3-year do. £9 17<s, 20----month empty heifers £0 17s 6d to £7 is, store cows £6 10s to £7 15s, fat do £11 15s„ mixed aged ewes (i n lamb) 3o s Id. smaller do. 25s 6d to 2Se, 4 and 6-tooth and f.m. do. 30s- 6d ewes and lambs 335. hoggets 26s IOd", f.m. wethers 31s. 4-tooth rams 2*gns* best cows (mostly Jerseys) in Mr Day's herd £15 to £24, others £10 to £14, cows on account of other vendors £15 to £22 10s, 3-year dairy heifers £13 to £18 10s. 2-year do. £9 10s to £15. At Stdny River on the 19th inst. mixed yearlings made £2 15s to £4 7s, yearling steers £4 2s to £5 ls 6d yearling heifers (good) £5 to £5 9s. others £3 9s to £495, yearling Holstein bulls £5 7s. 20-month to 2-year steers £7 8s to £8 "lOs, small do. £6 4 S to £6 17s, 3-year steers £10, 20-month empty heifers £6 7s to £6 10s, forward conditioned cows £9 12s 6d to £10 2s 6d, store do. £6 10s to £7 12s 6d s.m. empty ewes 275, fat hoggets 30s' hulls £9 ss. A small dairy herd offered on account of Mr J. A/Peattie. of Tataraimaka, were all second calvers and nice Jerseys, but were very low in condition, but sold exceptionally well, best cows realising £14 10s to £18 10s, pedigree Jersey bull Maori Officer, on account of same vendor, 21gns. Guaranteed cows on account of other vendors made from £10 to £16, 2-year dairy heifers (Jersey) £15 other sorts £11 to £13. 4 At my Stratford yards on the 16th inst. I sold my auction a dairy herd on account of Mrs M. M. Shute. Although appearing rather low in condition the cows were all young and showing quality. There was a good attendance of buyers and a most satisfactory sale resulted. Best cows realised £15 to £29, backward sorts £9 to £12.

CANTERBURY

At Addington fat sheep sold at an advance on prices ruling on July 30th. There was a further advance in the price of fat cattle, the proportion of really prime being small. Good dairying cows' sold well. Pigs of all classes sold ivell. , ' Fat Sheep—Pnme wethers 50s to 60s. medium wethers 38s to 49s 6d unfinished wethers 31s 3d to 37s 6d, extra pnme ewe s _o 535, prime ewes 38s to 455, medium ewes 30s to 37s 6d, unfinished ewes 23s 6d to 295, hoggets 23s 9d to 38s. Extra prime stews Ho £32 Iss, prime steers £22 to £27 2s 6d. ordinary steers £10 15s to £21 10s, prime heifers £14 to £16 7s 6d, ordinary heifers £9 10s | to £11 10s. extra, prime cows £15 to £18 15s, ordinary cows £8 10s to £14< 10s. Pigs—Baconers, equal to lOd to 10_d per ib; porkers, equal to Is per lb.

OTAGO

At Burnside prime bullocks made £25 5s to £28 12s 6d, medium to good £18 10s to £22, light, and unfinished £15 to £17 ss, ru-ime heifers £15 10s to £18 15s, medium to good £12 15s to £14 15s, light and aged £10 10s to £11 10s.

Fat Sheer>—Prime advanced ss, medium about 2s 6d, and inferior Is to Is Pd, compared with last week ,but Is 6d, compared with last week, but the prices fell away somewhat towards the finish. Extra prime wethers 65s to 72s 6d, prime 55s to 625, medium to good 46s 6d to 525, light and unfinished 34s to ?%. Only a, few pens of ewes were offered, realising SOg to 37s 9d.

Pig.s—A small yarding met a ready saie at advanced late rates.

SALE OF FRIESIAN HERD

The Farmers'' Auctioneering Co., Ltd., Hamilton, report: On Tuesday, 12th inst., we held a clearing sale, in conjunction with Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd.. on account of Mr C. C. Buckland, of the famous Monavale herd of Friesian cattle. Noth withstanding the restricted railway services 3 buyers from Australia and all parts of New Zealand were in attendance. The number of lot s totalled 179, for which there was very keen competition, most of the best lines being purchased: by buyers outside the 'Waikato. The following' are •some of the top prices realised:— Monavale Madeline Paxton 415gns, Monavale Maggie Paxton 370gns, and Monavale Rita Paxton 370gns_ Walter Hawker. Australia; Gem Oakland Maida, 213gns, H. R. Green, Palmerston North; Netberton Pontiac Prince, 190gns, ancl Monavale Nobiltje Veeman loOgns, A. J. Kidd. Waiuku ;* Monavale Maule De Kol 170gns, Neil Carter; J Monavale Evergreen Paxton 160gns, R. Reay. Morrinsville. The average for the 179 lots was £66 19& 6d. This confltitues a record for the Southern Hemisphere.