WESTFIELD SALEYARDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19405, 13 August 1926, Page 9

WESTFIELD SALEYARDS.

QUESTION OF STOCK ROUTE. A COMMISSION SUGGESTED. A conference of local bodies in the district to consider the question of a stock route from Papakura to Westfield was held at Manurewa on Wednesday evening. Mr. A. C. A. Sexton, Manurewa, presided, and also present were Messrs. Cox (Manurewa), Waters and Kearsley (Manukau), Clements and Petrie (Otahuhu), Hall and Brown (Papatoetoe), E. Weir and Rev. Wood (Papakura). Mr. Page, engineer to the Manukau County Council, reported that he and Mr. Waters had inspected the site of the proposed road through Mr. Gillies' property. The proposition was quite feasible, although the matter had not been gone into sufficiently to determine what the cost would be. Mr. Clements stated his council would oppose the outlet of the road at the new Tamaki Bridge, as stock would have to traverse a considerable distance of their streets, in which footpaths had been formed and surfaced. Mr. Wood suggested that a small charge per head of stock should be levied toward the cost of the road, the fund to be collected through the auctioneers. Mr. Sexton moved that a sub-committee consisting of delegates from the local bodies represented should be formed to wait upon the auctioneers and freezing companies to discuss the location of saleyards and a stock road to .them. This was carried. On Mr. Sexton's motion it was decided to approach the Government to set up a commission forthwith to consider the following questions:—(l) The suitability or otherwise of the present site of the Westfield saleyards; (2) the settling of a route for stock approaching Westfield from the South ; (3) the allocation, of the cost of canstruction and maintenance of such a route and any question of compensation. It was decided to recommend the appointment of Mr. W. S. Short as chairman of the commission. AUCKLAND COMPANIES. TWO NEW REGISTRATIONS. Two private companies were registered in Auckland yesterday. Details are as follow: The Motu Shingle Company, Ltd., dealers in shingle, sand and like materials, and general merchants and storekeepers. Capital, £SOO in £1 shares. Subscribers: Leonard Metcalfe Lane, timber merchant, Whakatane, and Jessie Matheson Gemmell, typiste, Auckland, 167 shares each; Frederick Poeppel, shingle merchant, Devonport, 166 shares: A. 0. Rice, Ltd. Objects: To purchase the business known as " The Cyclory," carried on by Alfred Rice in Victoria Street, Hamilton, etc.- Capital, £950 in £1 shares. Subscribers: Alfred Rice, mechanic, Hamilton,' 948 shares; Olga Vina Rice, married woman, and John Henry H. Thomas, railway employee, Hamilton, one share each. LONDON BUTTER PRICES. MARKET REPORT STEADY. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, has received the following cablegram from its London office, dated August 11:—Butter: New Zealand choicest. 1745, secondary, 160s to 1645, market steady; Danish, 180s; Australian. 170s. Cheese, white, 90s; coloured, 85s to 86s, market quiet. FRENCH WOOL IMPORTS. AN INSURANCE PROBLEM. (Received 11.35 p.m.) Renter. PARIS. Aug. 12. The newspaper Petit Parisien states that the Chamber of Commerce at Tourceing has requested the. Government to intervene diplomatically in connection with the action of British firms in conducting credit operations with French wool importers. It is stated that the banks have demanded of the importers that goods shall henceforth be insured against maritime risks in sterling with British companies. The chamber complains that compliance with this demand would ruin the French maritime insurance companies. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE. (Received 9.45 p.m.) A. and N.Z. SYDNEY. Aug. 12. The following are to-day's quotations on the Sydney produce market:—Wheat: farmers' lots, 6s lOd on trucks Sydney, 7s 4d Millers' parcels, bagged. Oats: Tasmanian Algerian, ss, white. 5s 3d. Maize: yellow, 7s 6d,-white, 7s 4d. Potatoes: Tasmanian, £l2 to £l6 10s, New Zealand, £l2. Onions: Victorian and Japanese, £2O, to £2l; American, £l9. Adelaide quotations are:—Wheat: growers' lots, 6s 3d to 6s 3Ad; parcels, nominally, 6s S^d. Oats, 3s. LONDON TALLOW SALES, A. and N.Z. LONDON. Aug. 11. At the London tallow sales to-day 980 casks were offered and 234 sold at about 6d decline. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having received the following cabiegram from their London house, dated August 11: —980 casKs of tallow were offered at the sales and 24 per cent, were sold. Inferior descriptions are. 6d lower, other descriptions being nominally unchanged. . THE PRICE OF GOLD. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Aug. 11. Gold is quoted at 84s llgd per oz., compared with 84s 10|d on Monday. MELBOURNE HIDES MARKET. Australian and N.Z, Cable Association. GRecd. 11.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE. Aug. 12. The Melbourne hides market was firm to-day. Kips advanced one farthing to one halt-penny. Light hides were oneeighth to one farthing dearer. Other grades were firm. PROPERTY SALES. Samuel Vaile and Sons, Ltd., will offer at auction at their rooma. 83, Queen Street, at 2 o'clook to-day, the following properties;— Cottage of 4 rooms on freehold section fronting Liverpool Street, City; 4 acres of land in Rodney Street. Howick, in deceased estate: new bungalow of 4 rooms, kitchenette and usual cnaveniences, in "Warnock Street, Richmond; also under conduct of registrar of Supreme Court, at request of mortgagee, a farm b£ 400 acres on the newlydrained Kaitaia Swimp. William A. Home. Ltd., will offer at auction at their aucti m rooms, corner High Street and Vulcan Lane, at 2 o'clock today, under conduct of the registrar of the Supreme Court, house of five rooms and conveniences, at 26, Summer Street, Ponsonby. C. F. Bennett will offer at auction at 12 o'clock to-day, at his rooms, New Zealand Insurance Buildings, Queen Street, house of six rooms and lean-to, ,and also a small shed, at 57, St. Stephen's Avenue, Parnell, for sale for removal, apart from the land on which they stand. Rutherford, Robinson and Austin will offer at auction ai 12 o'clock to-day, at their auction room, Lister Buildings, Victoria Street, on behalf of the registrar of the Supreme Court, 13i acres, situated about one mile from the Tuakau station.