TRADE IN AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19947, 16 May 1928, Page 9

TRADE IN AUCKLAND.

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 'ORDERS FOR NEXT MONTH. PRODUCE MARKETS REVIEW-

Wholesale trade is a little brighter this week, as orders for next month's account are beginning to come in. There is very little movement as far as the city uuyors are concerned, but in the country there is a tendency to look forward more hopefully to the winter's trade.

Retail city trade has not come on as well as was expected, most departments reporting business rather on tne quiet side. Luxury trades have been specially dull, but a fair turnover is taking place in furniture and household ironmongery. Provisions are selling well and boots and shoes show a distinctly better demand. ' Drapers and clothiers are making the most of the advent of wintry weather, and are making a specially attractive display of seasonable goods. These are meeting with a satisfactory response. Woollens and furs are selling well. COTTON. The market in raw cotton has not maintained the advance that camo in with the advices o 1 a smaller crop, a dull demand boing the cause. The general impression in Lancashire seems, to be that buyers oi piece have been waiting until prices appear more stabilised.. No improvement has taken place in the inquiries and demand from China, but from other quarters, notably Singapore and the Straits Settlements, there have been signs of stocks running low and replacements being needed. EGGS. Firmer again thi3 week, as there are only limited supplies coming in. Wholesale are asking 3s to 3s Id for full size hen egga, and these are retailing at 3s 3d to 3s 4d. Retailers are selling duck eggs at 3s. these having been more plentiful during the past fortnight. POTATOES. Selling readily at £7 10s ex store, and the price will hold firmly during the week, as the next shipment is coming via New Plymouth, possibly arriving too late for the Island steamer loading this week. Stocks appear likely to be well worked down during the week, as the weekly consumption is about 0500 sacks, and the 5000 sacks on the way will barely suffice until the Wingatui returns. ONIONS Canterbury onions are selling at 10s ex store, after repicking. and most samples now | require to be thus treated. A few local are selling, but they are held for higher prices. OATS. Export has hardened up the price, and very few are now offering from Southern ports. Local Quotation is 5s to 5s 3d ex store. CHAFF. Now firm at £lO ex store, the advance being due to shippers following the sharp rise in oats. WHEAT. Fowl wheat is now the chief poultry grain and good business is being done at 7s 6d on the wharf or 7s 9d ex store. Very few buyers are now taking oats for poultry, as the price is too high, but barley is selling fairly well at 5a 6d. POLLARD. So scarce that regular importation from Australia has set in. However, the price on the other side has advanced 12s 6d a ton and this will require a local price of £ll 10s, making it difficult to sell if it were not for the pronounced scarcity. MAIZE BY RAIL. Good quality is in such short supply that any arriving is readily placed at 6s 2d on the wharf. A notable recent development is the arrival of maize by rail, chiefly from inland centres, where the grain was previously railed to the Bay' of Plenty shinning porta, and this is coming in very handy for supplying towns on the line. FERTILISERS. Orders are still coming in for local topdressing manures, although most farmers were well supplied in April at the old prices. Basic slag is also moving off well, a shipment now at the wharf having been _all sold to arrive for delivery direct from ship's side. FLAX. Overseas markets are quiet, but very little is coming in rrbw, as the mills have closed down earlier than usual this year. Mail advices from London report buyers indifferent. KAURI GUM. Supplies continue to come into Auckland on a reduced scale and this feature seems likely to continue until well into the spring. Most of what is coming in consists of low qualities of chips, B2 and swamp. Rescraped A'hite is difficult to dispose of, as buyers are operating only with orders in hand. Any sales effected range from £230 to £2OO. There ,is now more three-quarter and seven-eighths comiug in than rescraped, but the total- quantities are small, even in the inferior condition. Any small sales are made at £l3O to £145 for three-quarter scraped and £145 to £l6O for seven-eighths. Ordinary white is going off slowly, hardly as fast as it comes in, sales running at £7O to £BO. Nuts are meeting a little demand at £6O to £6B. Chips and dust are arriving in fairly large quantities, but are not selling very well. In unscraped black there are still fair quantities held here and most sales are from stock, ranging fr.om £BO up to £BS if rerfjy good. Small quantities of medium black are moving off. realising about £36 to £42 if of brownish colour, while a really good bold brown will realise up to £65. Supplies are quite equal to requirements. Ordinary black B2 is hard to dispose of, even at £34 to £35. Chips, if hard and sifted, are selling rather freely at £22 to £25, but it is seldom possible to get a market for poor quality, which sells occasionally at £l2 to £l6. There is not much bush coming in now, but a fair amount is still held in Auckland. Garbs are moving off at £25 to £35. but rescrnped bold is hard to quit at £l5O to £l6O.

STOCK SALES. QUOTATIONS AT HAMILTON. FIRM DEMAND FOR BEiF. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] HAMILTON. Tuesday. Reports on the weekly stock sale at the Frankton yards to-day are:— The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited:—We had a moderate yarding of all classes of stock. • Beef was firm amd drew good competition throughout. Light-weight bullocks made from £l2 10s to £l3 10s; best cows. £lO to £ll ss; medium weights, £8 10s to £9 15s; light-weights. £f> 10s to £B. unfinished, £4 10s to £5 15s. Mutton was not so briskly competed for, and values declined a little. Small wethers sold at 335; best ewes, to 27s 7d: medium sorts, 24s to 25s 6d; lambs, 22s 9d to 26s sd; s.m. ewes in latnb to Romney rams, 20s Gd; f.m. ewes in lamb to Southdown ranis. 24s Gd; good woolly lambs, 24s 4d. were in strong demand and advanced m value, Btore pigs especially showing improvement. Prime baconiers sold at from £4 5s to £4 16s; medium, £3 16s to £4 3s; light, £3 4s to £3 12s fid; heavy porkers, £2 10s to £2 17s 6d; light, 30s to 38s; slips, los to 20s r weaners, Ss to 12s. _ . Dalgety and Company. Limited.—There was an average yarding of cattle and sheep. Quotations are: Prune fat bullocks, £l2 8s to £l3 10s: prime fat cows, £9 10s to £lO 2s 6d; lighter. £4 18s to £6 15s; vealers. £1 10s to 14s; prime fat heifers, JC3 109 to £lO 2s fid: fat lambs. £1 3s 6d to £1 ss; fnt wethers, 31s 9d to 32s 9d; fat ewes, 23a to 288 6d. , ... The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile \gencv Company. Limited.—There was a fair yarding of cattle and sheep. Prices: Prime fat steers, up to £l2 15s; prime fat heifers, to -C8 15s; prime fat cows. £8 los to £9 lis: lighter. £7 7s fid to £8 ss; good rnnners, £2 14s to £3 15s; fat ewes to 2as 3d- fat wethers, 32s 3d to 33s fid; heavy hacr>ners, £ 1 3s to £4 15s: lighter, £2 8s to £4. RATES AT TATJMARUNUI. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] TAUMARUNUI, Tuesday. There was a fair attendance of farmers and buyers at the Taumarunui stock sale to-day. The yarding of sheep was poor, only 173 Coming forward. About 200 cattle were penned. Bidding was dull and the following prices were realised:—Sheep: Pen of six Romney ewes, 20a fid: six-tooth ewes. 12s; sinn 11 pen of two-tooth owes, 25s fid; fat wethers, 31s. Pigs; Small weaners, 7s to 9s. Cattle: Empty cows, £5 15s; fat cows, £5 17s fid: empty heifers. £4 17s 6d; forward bullocks, £8 5s to £lO 3s. PRICES OF LAMB FOR EXPORT. [BT TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The New Zealand Meat Producers' Board advises that the following prices were being offered fov fat stock for export on, May 14:— Canterbury.—Prime woolly lambs, 361b and under. 11 5-8 d per ib; 371b to 421b, 10 7 8d; 431b and over, 10 3-8 d; second-quality lambs, 10 5-Bd. Southland.—Prime woolly lambs. 361b and under, 31 18d; 371b to 421b; 10 3-8 d; 431b and over, 9id; second-quality lambs, 10 l-Bd.