MARKET REPORTS..

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18520, 3 October 1923, Page 7

MARKET REPORTS..

FRUIT AND 'PRODUCE.

Apples and pears both slowed a tendency to \ riso in price on the Auckland market yesterday. The ■ supply -of • the former ; was fair. " A ' shipment of : Sydney :■ fruit -is -expected ■ to-day, and V another of i Island fruit to-morrow.. ' '', "• ■>-•.-•_- ,- Delicious apples realised from 10s 1 to; 14s a case; Stunners, from 7a 6d tolOs 6d; Doughertys., from 6s to 83 , 6d: ■' Pigeonettes, from 5s 6d to 6s 6d; and cookers, from ,6a to 7s. Barry pears realised . from 12s to 14s, while cooking pears . Bold at; from 6s :to 63 6d. 'Ripe bananas ;■, were : difficult ito obtain, at ' from 27s >to 30s. - The sale for lemons was dull, beat, graded, fetching up to 15s, while poorer lines sold -at from 6s to Bs. Re-packed oranges brought between 21b and' 22b, and tree tomatoes from Gb to 9s. Hothouse., tomatoes realised un to '2a 7jd a pound. -•' '-•'■ '".', hK W—-

FIELD PRODUCE. Potatoes sold at from 18s to 14s a cwt.; Australian onions, from 7s to, 8s:. and swede turnips, from 7s to : 9s. American onions realised 22s 6d for crate of lOfllb. Cabbages brought from 5s to 16s a sack,' and cauliflowers, from "7s to. 12s 6d. Parsnips., carrots, beet, and turnips sold at from 9d to Is 9d a dozen, lettuce from 6d to 2s 3d, rhubarb from 3s 6d to 6s, and hothouse cucumbers from 10s to 14s €d a dozen. Asparagus realised from 8d to Is 8d a bundle, and celery from 13 to -2a 9d., New potatoes sold at from 3d to. 4d a pound for • best grades, 2d to .3d for medium; and Id for poor grades, while kumaras brought from 2d to 21d, beans 2s, and. peas from 7d to 85 *' DATRY PRODUCE. * DAIRY PRODUCE.

Bsrpis were again in good supply, hen eggs fetching from Is 2d to Is 2Jd a, dozen, and duck eggs ■ from Is to Is Id. Farmers butter brought from Is 2d to Is 4d a pound.

CANTERBURY MARKETS.

POTATOES AGAIN EASIER.

[Bt TELEGBAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] - ■ : .CEBISTCHTJRCH.; Tuesday. Potatoes are not being inquired for from Auckland for the time being, supplies .that have gone North of late apparently meeting immediate requirements _ New potatoes are now available. in the North, but at too high a price to cause much demand. There is a further casing on -week-end prices, a material result: of lack of orders and also of ■ the rapid rise of the . week before. Some f.o.b.s.i. business has been done at £11 10s. Farmers in the meantime are offering very few. The Navua left yesterday with 2GOO aaoks, and the Atua. is due to 6ail about Saturday, but with a small consignment. The Kornata follows next Tuesday or Wednesday. :;' Oats are mooting with good inquiry, mostly for the North Island, and values are from 2s 8d to 2s 9d to farmers. Chaff is also being sold more freely. '<■'•; Good samples of white clover are changing hands, and the line is worth Is Id to Is 3d to farmers. '• r- , >? -:

, : TALLOW IN LONDON. . , Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. - (Reed. 8.5 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 1. Tallow stocks / are 84G0 casks imports, 420; deliveries.' 2849.

BRADFORD WOOL MARKET.

. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 8.5 p.m.) : LONDON, Oct. 1.

The Bradford wool market shows very little inquiry, topniakers and spinners being indifferent.

FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

' Aiustralian and, N.Z. Cablo Association. (Reed. 8.15 p.m.)' ; LONDON. Oct. 1. t The following rates on foreign; exchanges are current to-day, • c*mpai/d with the cabled quotations on September 27 and par:— >:•■".?■• -■ ,_-_ .:■. Oct. 1. Sept. 27. Par. New York (dol.) .. 4.511 4.55* 4.866 Montreal (dol.) . „ 4.64 4.C5i 4.866 Paris \fr.) ... 75.05 73.85 25,225 Brussels (fr;) -. .. , 88.15 86.45 25.225 Rome (lire) ... 1001 98} 25.225 Berlin (m.) . . 13lanil.. 650-750mi1. 20.43 Stockholm (kr.) . . 17.13 16.18 18.169 Chrisliania (kr.) .. 28.67 28.62 18.169 Copenhagen «(kr.) . 25.57 25.50 18.159 Calcutta (pence) ,'. "161 ' -16* 24 ; / Hongkong (pence) .274 .27? —' v -' Yokohama tpencc) . 252 251 . 24£

WAIKATO PRODUCE IN LONDON. i.BX x£LEGßArir.—own CORRESPONDENT.] t HAMILTON. Tuesday, v

Advice has been received by the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Co., >■ Ltd .V from its London manager, Mr. J. B. Wright, that the butter .. position remains quietly firm. The company's butter was priced at 2025. and Danish 2063. The cheese position was slightly weaker, with white at \ l2os, coloured 1225, and Canadian 1183 c.i.f. The casein market was r firm, but quiet. New Zealand was quoted at £76 per ton. Satis* factory .prices were being realised for milk powder, the figures being £62 per ton, and £130 per ton. for whole milk powder. An increasing demand had set in for dried milk powder, as the result of tho publicity given to it at the London i Bakers' Exhibition, ■' "■ ' '■.'•; :!,:, ;;..,.V"'.V", .■':■• ''' ■■■'■"'■ :'.r. *■':'■„■ iv

manAwatu STOCK SALE, . • Messrs. Dalerety and Co., Ltd., report as follows: —At the Feilding Bale, . last Friday, there was a large yarding of fat: sheep and fat cattle, all -of which met- with keen competition. Store .cattle came forward! in large numbers, but there was ' : only a small entry-of ■ sheep, the latter: meeting with a good demand. Quotations;— Small hoggets. 21a Od.. 235, 24s 7d: wether hoggets. 255-. 10a to. 275; ewe hoggets, 2&s 3d: B.F. hoggets, 22s 6d; rough m.a. ewes, with lambs, 345; fat ewes,- 31s 3d, 82.3, 335, 85s. 365, 37s 3d.' 88s, to 42s lOd: fat two-tooths, .335; ehorn b.f. ■ two-tooths, 2fls 3d; *. m.a. . shorn . ewes, f-wd condition, 24s &d;, purebred Romney ewe hoggets, 365; medium yearling Hereford :, steers, £3; .' medium •' yearling P.A. steers,. £3 3s; two-year P.A. steers, £4 18s Gd; two-year empty Hereford cross heifers. £3 i 6s; one-year ■-. Jersey cross heifers, £3 12s: empty- Hereford cows, ■£3 6s; fat bullocks/ £9 10s, £10 6s. £11. to £11 4s: prime fat heifers. £10 10s to £11 - 4s; fat heifers, £6 'td £8; fat cows, £5 10s to.:'£7l 10s.:;

'• Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd.,- re-" port on their Feilding sale, held last. Friday, as follows: —The yarding of sheep -was small, but sold' at advanced : prices. Our cattle yarding was heavy, and : consisted of some cbVce fat cattle, which was keenly sought \lifter,;*every pen being sojd under the hammer. A small entry of dairy cattle sold well. We quote:—Sheep:.'; Fat ewes, to £2 Os id; ''■■• forward ewes, 255; .ewes- and lamb-, £?: wether hoggets. 275,9 d; ewe hogpets (P.B.}. 365; B.F. hoseets, 20s /: 3d. Cattle: Fat heifers; heavy, £10, , £10 16s. I £11 la, to £11 14s: fat heifers, light; £5, £5 5a 6d, £7 5«, to £8 8s 6d; fat cows. £5. 9s 6d, £5 '10s. £7 17s. £9 Ss. to £10: fat bullock.", £8 ?•» 6d. £9 Ps, £9 TV £10 2s 6d. to £11 4s: three-yenv P.A: bullocks. £6 to £6 7s 6d: BH. and Hereford bullocks. £6: two-year P.A. steers, £4 18s Pel: yearling P.A. steers, £3: IPs; yearling, Hereford '•;■ heifers. £2 6s: forward : 1 "jffows; ■£2 14s to £3 4s 6d: < store cows, £11. £1 ss, £1 7s, 1: lOs.-to £1 17a; veflrlvng Jersey heifers. £3 1?/ to £3 15s; springing heifers, £4 IBs, £6 --Qr, M; £7,'- £8, £8 15s. £9 2s 6d, £9 10s, to £10 15s; dairy cows, £4, £5 ss. £6 10s. £7. £10 ss.