WAIKATO MARKET REPORT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 10 March 1923, Page III

WAIKATO MARKET REPORT.

The Farmers" Co-op. Auctioneering Company, Hamilton, report: I Beef is fairly steady, with a tendency to improve m though exporters still seem disinclined to assist much towards that end. . ,7 ■ I Mutton. —The markets are well sup- ' plied, and competition rules fairly i i steady. Ewes predominate largely, ' lines of good mutton being difficult to procure. ! Store y cattle.—Conieptitioh. is still dull, but there is no certainty that dullness will, long continue. Grown steers ! are not in keen demand, but there is a fair irjj^.-y; for yearlings and two-year-olds. In-calf heifers are firming steadily, and better yard ings of this class will no doubt shortly be witnessed. Calves. of both sexes are m moderate demand, well-bred Jersey heifers being most popular. j Store sheep.—^-Breeding ewes still continue to 3 attract notice, especially in the back districts. Most of the lowland graziers have filled requirements, and in consequence some of the central, yards have experienced a-'slight'falling-'1 off. Wethers draw good competition wherever offered, also lambs, both rape ; and stores; | Pigs.—Excepting occasional fluctuations, there is not much of consequence to report. The advance in export quotations must cast its reflection on yard ! sales, although' present: export; values have been realised in the yards for some j time past. 7;. ■/'•-...'■■ I Horses. —There is a good inquiry for heavy draught animals,and the autumn I fairs should bring good results. I- v .==—=—=— ■' ..-" '•'■■ '

The following new books have been I received at the public library: "Some I Confessions of an Average Man" (by Richard King). "Head Hunters of the Amazon" (F. W. Up De Graff), "The Middle, of the Road (Sir Philip | Gibbs), "Lola—Thought and Speech ofAnimals" (H. Kindermann), "At < Sight of 3 God" (Lombardi), "Pang of Life" (Knibbs), "Peter's People" (Curtis Yorke), "Old Forever" <A. OhV phant),. "Quest" (Rosita Forbes), "Makeshifts" (Rose Macaulay), "A Trap for Navarre" (May Wynne), "The Island God Forgot" (Stilson L. Beahan), "The Honest Man" - (Silberrad), "Where the Roads. Cross" (S. Hocking), "Dawn at Sunday's River" (F. Mills Young), '<The Valley of Ghosts" (Edgar- Wallace), "Salt Seas and Sailormen" (F. W. Wallace), '.'The Amazing Inheritance" (Frances Sterrett), "Manellafs Marriage" (G. B. Burgin), "Ships Come Home" (Countess Barcyuska), "The Street Below" (Ruby Ayres), "Viola Gwyn" (G. B. McCutcheon), "Clancy of the Mounted Police". (0. Binhs), '.'The Return of Blue Pete" (Luke Allan), "The ' Glimpses of the Moon" (Edith Wharr ton), "Pender Among the Residents'.' (Forrest Reid), "Kai-iutig's Golden Hours" (Ernest Bramah), "The Just Steward" (Richard;' Dehan). Also a complete edition of Sir".Walter Scott's novels.- '7' February 28 was ; the last day on which ratepayers of. the Whangarei County Council could pay their rates without suffering the imposition of a surcharge penalty of 10 per cent; The result has proved somewhat instructive, | says _the Northern Advocate. The approximate aggregate of rates to be collected during the year was £29,500, plus about £3000 in loan rates. Of that total of roughly £32,500, nearly one-quarter, £76757 was- paid to the county treasurer during the. last six days of February, arid that included some £700 of rates in arrears from previous years. The daily bankings of rate moneys for the final five days were as follows—£9lß,76Boo, £2200.3. £2700, and £1057, which clearly^showed that some settlers were anxious to avail themselves to the eleventh hour of the period of grace allowed.