COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18158, 1 February 1921, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

WELLINGTON WOOL SALE. (Per United Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, January 31,

The wool sales are proceeding. The catalogue totals 17,000 hales, and competition the main American) is for well-classed, niceconditioned wools, prices for which are up a halfpenny on the last sales. The Continent is securing the best lambs’ wool in competition with the local mills. Merino are unwanted, and really super crossbreds are well up to the last sale or slightly above. Faulty, seedy lines are below the last sale rates or not wanted. Corned ale realised 14d. The sale is proceeding. GRAIN Alft) PRODUCE. Messrs Donald Reid and Co. report having held their usual sale of grain and produce, when prices ruled as under: 1 Oats.—The market remains much the same as last week. Merchants end millers are only buying their immediate requirements, pending the arrival of the new season’s crop. We quote: Good milling Gartons, 2s 6d to 2s 9d; good to best feed. 2s 3d to 2s 6d; sparrowbills, 2s 7d to 2s 9d. Chaff.—Supplies are sufficient to meet the demand. Prime black oat, £6 15s; good to best feed, £6 5s to £6 10s; medium, light, and discoloured, £5 to £6. Wheat.—We have received advice from the Wheat Controller to this effect: “Should eny wheat come on the market prior to the fixing of the maximum price in February,_ you will pay the grower the minimum price--73 3d Tuscan, 7s 6d Hunter’s, 7s 9d pearl—and as soon as the price has been fixed at the conference you will be instructed to pay the extra money to the grower.”

Messrs Dalgety and Co. report as follows; Oats.—A little business has been done at reduced rates, but the market is still very quiet. We quote: Prime nulling, 2s 6d to 2s 9d; good to best feed, 2s 3d to 2s 6d per bushel (sacks extra). Chaff.—There is not a great deal of chaff coming to hand, but the demand is correspondingly slack. Only prime lots are saleable, light and inferior lines being neglected. We quote: Prim© oaten sheaf, to £6 10a; good to Wist feed, £6 to £6 sa; light and inferior, from £3 per ton (sacks extra). • :

• RABBITSKIN REPORT. Tho Dunedin Woolbrokers’ Association (New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Stronach, Morris, and Co., Wright, Stephenson, and Co., National Mortgage and Agency Co., Todd Bros., Dalgety and Co., Otago Farmers’ Co-op. Association, Donald Reid and Co.) report as followd*?^The usual sale of rabbitskina was held yesterday, when a small catalogue of offseason skins was offered to a fair attendance of buyers. Bidding was brisk, end all catalogues were cleared at a slight rise on the .previous sale Quotations; Broken, 6d >o 8d; runners and suckers, 3|d; summers, 7Jd to 9d spring, lid to 15d; late racks, 73d; racks, 7Jd to &Jd; milky, 7d; outgoings, 2Sd to 28d; winter bucks, 37d to 40d; winter does, 48Jd; early autumns, 22 Jd; autumns, 25<J to 29Jd; blacks, 60Jd; fawns, 16Jd; weevil}', 6d to 9d; bareskins, 9d to 10s; horseham, 18d to 19d.

Scott Bros., produce merchants and commission agents, agents for the Egg and Poultry Growers’ Association, Dunedin, report.—Eggs, Is lid to 2s per dozen. Butter: Quiet; pats. Is 9d per lb. # Honey: Prime clover, bulk, 8d per lb; 101 b tins, 7s 6d each. Beeswax, 2s 2d per lb. Fat, 22s to 25s per cwt. Poultry: Hens, 4s per pair; ducklings, 7s to 8s per pair; geese, 8s to 10s per pair; turkeys, gobblers Is 6d, hens Is 4d per lb. Pigs; Quiet; prime baconers, 9Jd to>lod per lb;- porkers, overweights,' 4d to 6d per lb; hams. Is 8d per lb; bacon, Is 7d per lb. Potatoes: Wanted; Camaras, 12s per owt.( Onions: Melbourne, 14s per cwt. CbaS: Quiet; prime £6 10s per ton; medium quolity, £5 to £6 per ton, sacks extra. Oats, 2s 9d per bushel, ex store, sacks extro. Straw: Pressed wheaten, £5 ; oaten, £5 10s _ per ton. We can supply petrol, motor lubricating oils and greases. January 81, 1921.