FLOWER SHOWS

Otago Witness, Issue 3526, 11 October 1921, Page 13

FLOWER SHOWS

WAITAHUNA. The annual spring show of the Waitahuma* Horticultural Society was held on Wednesday last, and proved a decided success, the attendance being good and competition keen. The* judge (Mr Hamel, Dunedin) found a, decided improvement in both the quality and classification of the exhibits, narcissi being an outstanding feature of the show. Tho blooms were clean, well grown, and beautifully coloured, indicating that the district was eminently suite i to the cultivation of narcissi. In many classes only half & point separated the competitors. Pot plants, although not numerous, were well grown. In classes other than narcissi four very fair collections were shown. Mr Hamel also remarked on the decided improvement in floral and decorative work, the same applying to the juvenile sections. In the judge’s opinion an improvement, might be effected in the staging of the exhibits, and suggested tiering instead of the present table system. The show, in Mr Hamel's opinion, was highly creditable for a small country town. The judging in the bread, cakes, and indu.strial work was carried out in a creditable maimer by Mesdames Wrigdit and Cameron, of Lawrence. The task was no easy one, competition being strong and the quality excellent, making the decisions more arduous. Miss Lottie Ryan exhibited some interesting and beautiful designs in ma rqueleric, pen painting, and poker work, an item that received its meed of praise from patrons attending the show. The secretary, Mr V. J. Temper©, and committee had ail arrangements well in hand, and worked energetically together, making the success of the show assured.

KAITANGATA. The nineteen 111 annual spring show of tho Kaitangato Horticultural Society was held in the Presbyterian Church Hall la3t week. Tho show surpassed Ihc previous year’s, both in exhibits and the quality of the blooms. Mr Naish, Balclutha, judged. Following 13 the- prized ist: Pot Plants.—Cineraria —Mrs M. Carson 1. Cyclamen—Mr Jas. Reid 1. Fern—Mr Jaa. Reid 1 Asparagus —Mrs M. Brown X, Mrs A. Cockerill 2. Aspidistra—Mr Jas. Reid 1. Narcissi. —Mrs Sha-rman was the most successful competitor in this section. Messrs Jas. Reid, G-. Aitchison and Mrs M. Carson also won prizes. The champion narcissi bloom in the show, Great Worby, a very fine bloom, measuring sin across, was grown by Mrs Sherman. Celmisias, six blooms—Mrs Sharman 1. Violas, collection —Mr Jas. Reid 1. Wallflowers, varieties—Miss J. Smaill 1. Bunch vi-olets—Mr Jas. Reid 1. Anemones—Mrs Clements 1. Primrose, six varieties-—Mrs M. Carson 1. Polyanthus, six varieties—Mrs M. Carson 1 arid 2. Polyanthus, collection— Mrs M. Carson 1. Auriculas, three varieties —Miss M'Crost.is 1. Auriculas, six varieties —Miss M’Crostie 1. Snowflakes, six spikes— Mrs MTntosh 1. Collection of cut flowers, 12 varieties —Miss M'Crostio 1 and special, Mrs Sharman 2. Any flower not in schedule —Mr W. Frazer 1. Bowl of narcissi, any foliage—Mrs Hawke 1. Mrs Sharman 2. Decorated bowl—Miss M'Crostie 1, Miss I. Smaill 2. Bowl daffodils —Miss I. Smaill 1. Epergne—Mr J. Reid 1. Spray, one lady's —•Mrs Sh-arinan 1. Buttonhole —Miss K. Smaill 1. Table decoration, any flowers — Miss M’Crostie 1, Miss Iv. Smaill 2. Table decoration, narcissi—Mrs G. Aitehison 1, Mrs Sharman 2. Children's Section. —Pot plant, foliage— Master K. Bennie 1. Narcissi, six varieties, 10 of each —Miss Bennie 1. Pansies, six varieties—Master Ken Bennie 1. Gentleman’s buttonhole —Miss Bennie 1. Lady's spray —Hen Bennie 1. COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS. BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS. LONDON, October 6. The Brink of England returns for the week end. *1 October 6 afford the following comparisons with those of the previous week : Bept. 29. Oct- G. Coin and bullion £126,5!)">,000 £126,595,000 Reserve 21.802,000 21,197,000 Proportion of reserve to liabilities, per cent. ... IIA6I 14.41 Note circulation 134,070.000 125.667,000 Government deposits ... 12,231.000 19,266,(XX) Other deposits 105,421,000 127,772,00*) Government securities ... 33,000,000 58,541,000 (Other securities 80,494,000 84,948.000 Short loans, 4 per cent.; three months’ bills, per cent. FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES. LONDON, October 6. Tho foreign exchange rates on London afford

LONDON MARKETS. LONDON, October 6. Danish and Argentine butter prices are unchanged. The first shipments of Australasian “free” butler are expected next week. There are small prospects o-f Government prices being exceeded, and possibly they will not be equalled owing to supplies of the lower-priced uncontrolled article almost equalling the demand. The cheese market is uncertain. New Zealand white, 100 s to 102 s per cwt ; coloured, 02s to 04s. Tlio wheat market is dull, and prices are tending in buyers’ favour. Australian, GGs. Flour is moderately steady. Australian, Oafs: The market is weak, and prices have declined is. Deans and peas: Tho market is quiet. Tasmanian and New Zealand bines are unchanged. Sugar: There is a good demand: Granulated, 52s 3d. Copper: Spot, £6O Is 3d; forward, £7O Is. Lead: Spot, £23 ss; forward, £23 2s Gd. Spelter: Spot, £26 12a 6d; forward, £27 2s Gd.

Tin: Spot, £155 12s Gd; forward, £155 173 Cd. Silver, 3s s£d per oz. October 8. Cotton. —Liverpool quotation, American middling upland, November delivery, 13.72 d per pound. Rubber. —Fine hard Pam, 13 l£d per pound; plantation, first latex crepe, 9|d; smoked ribbed sheet, 9£d. New Zealand Hemp.—September-Novcmber shipment, £39 per ton. Jute. —October-November, £3l 103. Linseed oil, £3l per ton—equal 23 s|d per gallon. Turpentine, 693 per cwt—equal to 5s 2£d per gallon. The copra market opened firmer, and closed quiet. South Sea bagged is quoted at £29 5s per ton. LONDON TALLOW MARKET. LONDON, October 3. Tallow: Stocks, 4092 casks; imports, 2437; deliveries during September, 4876. LONDON, October 5. At the tallow sales 757 casks were offered and 323 sold. Mutton declined 2s per cwt, and beef Is. Fine mutton, 5Gs 6d; medium, 50s. Fine beef, 535; medium, 48s- good mixed, 50s. Dalgety and Co. report having received tho following cable from London, dated October 5, 1921 : —“Seven hundred and fifty-five casks tallow offered; 274 casks tallow sold. The market is irregular, with van easier tendency; lower grade soils are neglected.” BUTTER AND CHEESE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company has received tho following cable message from London, dated September 30: New Zealand butter is in small demand at 205 s per cwt; white cheese, 98s; coloured, 925.” Messrs A. S. Paterson and Co. are in receipt of the following cable from their principals (Messrs J. and J. Lonsdale and Co., Limited), London, dated the 3rd. inst.: —“Government butter has been reduced. New Zealand by 15.3, Australian by 20s. There is an improved demand for butter and cheese at present prices.” Messrs A. S. Paterson and Co. are in receipt of the following cable from London: Cheese: Market improving.” FROZEN MEAT MARKET. LONDON, October 8. Sheep.—Canterbury, 7£d, land, 6d; North Island, 6d ; New Zealand ewes. 4|d; South American, light s£-d; heavy sd; owes, 4£d. Lambs. —New Zealand, light 9jd, medium B£d, heavy 8d to 9d; seconds, B|d; North Islands, selecteds, ordinary, 8,?-d; South American, light 75d, heavy Gd. Beef. —Argentine frozen hind 3,8 d; chilled fores, s^d; hinds, 7£d. Sheep.—Patagonian light, s|d ; heavy, 4*Rl. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. MELBOURNE, October 7. Hides are very firm and values are unaltered. All the* prices are in sellers’ favour. Barley: English, 43 to 4s 6d; Cape, 3s 3d. Oats, 2s cd. Potatoes, £2 10s to £4 53. Onions, £1 10s to £2. SYDNEY, October 6. Oats: Algerian feed, 3s 3d to 3s 4d; milling, 3s Gd; white feed, 3s 7d to 33 Bd. Maize: Yellow, 5s Gd; white, 5s 3d. Potatoes: Tasmanian, £5 to £8; Victorian, £4 to* £6. Onions: Victorian, £1 10s to £4 15s. ADELAIDE, October 8. Oats: Nominal. THE WOOL MARKET. BRADFORD WOOL MARKET. LONDON, October 6. The Bradford wool market shows a stronger tone. Prices are firm, with an upward tendency. October 3. The Bradford tops market for merinos is more active. There is a good demand for early deliveries. Sixty-four’s are quoted at from 13d to 4ld per lb.ANTWERP WOOL SALES. ANTWERP, October 5. At the wool sale 5000 bales of La Plata were offered' and 1500 sold. Prices were 15 to 20 per cent, higher than at tire June sales. LONDON, October 6. At the Antwerp wool sales 10,300 bales of Australian were offered and all were sold. There was excited competition. Prices were 25 to 30 per cent, above the August rates; October 7. At the Antwerp wool sales 79,813 bales of Australian wool were offered and 9700 sold. There was great animation, and prices were 25 to 35 per cent, higher than in August. LONDON WOOL SALES. Dalgety and Co. report having received the following cable from London, dated October 1: —“ ‘Bawra’ wool sales, Liverpool, 30,800 bales offered and practically all sold; strong competition from Continental and English buyers As compared with last sales’ closing rates in London, sup~r merino wools 10 per cent, higher, merino wools of other descriptions 5 per cent, higher, pieces unchanged, crossbred* wools, fine and medium quality 5 per cent, higher, coarse crossbred wools 10 per cent, higher. Butter slow; Danish, from £ll Is to £ll 18s; Australian, £7 15s to £9 4s; New Zealand. £lO ss. Government prices have been reduced by 15s New Zealand, £1 Australian, but still above market prices, and stocks of Government butter have increased. It is estimated at 1,400,000 boxes. Heavy fall in prices is therefore probable if Government force sale. Cheese somewhat steadier; New' Zealand coloured, £4 6s to £4 16s; white, £4 12s to £5; Canadian c.i.f. quotations, £5 25.” The Council of Wool Brokers allocated 300,000 bales for tho November and December sales. OVERSEAS WOOL FREIGHTS. SYDNEY, October G. The overseas rates for wool have been reduced—greasy from 11;d to ILb and scoured from l|d to l«d. THE OAMARU MARKETS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) OAMARU, October 8. There is little to be recorded in connection with the local markets this week, business having been exceedingly slack in every department, with no present sign of an early improvement. Though the country is looking well, growth is slow for want of warmth in the soil. Instead of the required sunshine without rain we have had, for tbe most part, colds winds and occasional rains and some snow in the back country. Those conditions naturally affect the stock market, for, with the unsatisfactory prospects in regard to meat and wool, no one cares to stock up on backward pastures. Again the increased area under crop naturally reduces the carrying capacity of farms.

Thus it conies about that sheep are not wanted in the meantime, though, with the growth of feed, there may arise a readiness to buy ewes and lambs, though at rates far below those readily given when wool and meat were saleable at profitable prices. A couple of small pens of ewes with lambs were offered at this week’s market sale, but they did not elicit any real competition, and were sold respectively at Gs 4d and 4s Cd, all counted, which does not bode well for the future. These were the only sheep yarded, and the only sale by private treaty reported is a line of fat wethers, which found a buver at 21s. SOUTHLAND MARKET REPORT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) INVERCARGILL, October 8. Oats. —There has been somewhat more activity in the shape of demand since last report despite the rainfalls in northern quarters, and although, there lias been no hardening in prices the outlook is still ho-peful. Very few lines are being offered by growers, and these are being bought by merchants at 2s lOd per bushel on trucks, sacks extra, for A Gartons, at sidings ,fairly handy to port. Chaff. —This lias somewhat receded in value, merchants being unwilling to give more than £3 10s on trucks for good quality, sack 3 supplied by buyers. In grain generally a decidedly greater area has been sown in wheat this year than for many seasons. The acreage in oats is certainly much less than during the* last two or three years, but this last fortnight a fair number of farmers have sown oats who had no notion of so doing, being of opinion that prices will be good owing to tho sowing of this cereal being so me wh a t ne g lee ted. Ryegrass.—Very little is now offering by growers, and it seems as if the bulk of seed is now in merchants’ hands. The quantity of Southland grown this season has been of considerable dimensions, but owing to the keen demand from the north and Australia, stocks in merchants’ hands are decidedly small, very few having anything more than sufficient for the demand of retail trade. This demand is also strong owing to the sowing having been neglected, especially last year, when the prices were so high. EXPORTS OF BUTTER AND CHEESE. The Corinthic will take a cargo of the new season’s butter and cheese from Dunedin. Some 70 crates of cheese and 1084 boxes of butter will be put on board the vessel here. The greater portion of the butter will be sent on consignment to the New Zealand Producers’ Marketing Association in London. The Corinthic will also load butter and cheese at Bluff. HIDE SALE REPORT. Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report as follows:—We held a most successful sale of butchers’ abattoir hides on account of the Otago By-products Company at Burnside on the 6th. The hides on offer were in splendid condition, and included in cur catalogue were some lots of ox and cow hide 3 of extra stout substance. Competition throughout the sale was exceptionally keen from a full gathering cf tanners andi exporters. As compared with our previous sale values generally were Id to lkl per lb in advance, while in a few lots of extra stout substance prices were 2d to per lb higher. In ox hides we sold two lots at 174 d per lb, other prices being li|d and 14|d. For one extra stout cow we obtained the extreme price of lOgd, other lots selling at 7gd arid 6;d. In calfskins our best price was 15|d per lb. Some of our best gross returns at per hide are:—Ox—Five 761 b, £5 9s 3d; two 671 b, £4 lGs 4d; 19 731 b, £4 9s; 21 651 b, £3 19s lid; 25 631 b, £3 17s Gd; 25 631 b, £2 17s 9d; 24 631 b, £2 17s 9d; 26 621 b, £2 16s lOd; 25 621 b, £2 16s lOd; 25 611 b, £2 15s 4d ; 34 561 b, £2 6s 8d; 25 561 b, £2 5s Gd ; 25 551 b, £2 ss. Cows — One 691 b, £3 Is Id; 13 531 b, £1 13s 8& A few of our best prices at per lb were:—Ox hides —Five 761 b, 17id ; two 671 b, 17£d ; 21 651 b, 14|d; 25 63l'b, 14*d; 19 731 b, Ugd; 25 631 b, lid; 24 631 b, lid; 25 621 b, lid; 26 621 b, lid; 25 611 b, 10|d; 34 561 b, lOd; 25 561 b, S|d; 25 J>6lb, 9§d. Cows —One 69ib, 10|d; 13 531 b, 7£d; five 441 b, 6gd. We quote: Extra special stout heavy ox, 15d to lT^d; stout heavy ox, 13id to 14$d ; heavy, 10Id to lid; medium, 9k! to lOd; light, 7\d to 8a; extra special sto-ut heavy cows, to 10yd ; stout heavy (nominal), to Sd: medium, 7d to light, GRI to 6£d ; calfskins, best (51b weight), to 15§d; 7lb weight, to lojd. WELLINGTON, October 7. At the hide and sheepskin sales to-day prices for hides were generally in the vicinity of the last sales’ closing rates. Sheepskins showed a further advance of from Id lor halfbreds to ltd for coarse to fine crossbreds. Salted and green sheepskins sold freely at late rates. Ox hides depreciated slightly, while cow, yearling, and calf skins registered a slight increase up to Id a Jb. BABBITSKIN SALE. The following stock and station agents (Dalgety and Co., Donald Reid and Co., the National Mortgage and Agency Company, Wright, Stephenson, and Co., the Otago Farmers’ Co-operative Association, Strcnach, Morris, and C'o., the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, and Todd Bros.) held their usual fortnightly sale before the usual attendance of buyers, when the better quality skins were back from 3d to 6d per lb. Lower grades were on a par with late sales. Prime does, from 85d to 90d; prime bucks, 70d to 75d; first winter does, 64d to 70d; first winter bucks, 63d to 68d; second winter does, 50d to 5Sd; second winter bucks, 48d to 56d ; incomings, 47d to 50d ; autumns, 40d to 45d; early autumns, 30d to 38d; prime racks, 12d to 15d; light racks, 8d to lid ; summers, 8d to lid; prime winter blacks, 90i to lOOd; first winter blacks, GOcl to 70d; winter fawns, 42d to 50d;- outgoing does, 28d to 33d; outgoing bucks, 24d to 30d; springs, 18cl to 20d. SALE OF JERSEY BULLS. NEW PLYMOUTH. October 5. The annual sale of pedigree Fresian bulls, the property of North Taranaki breeders, was held yesterday and to-day. On the first day 87 lots brought just under 5000 gs—ans—an average of £59 5s per head. The top price i22ogs) was obtained for a yearling bull, Viola’s Golden Noble. To-day 30 lots brought 1880 gs, the top price bung 130 gs. Also to-day 16 pedigree Jerseys were disposed i f on behalf of Mr Coulter, of Blenheim, and brought 1230g5. The highest price was 100g3 for a cow, Hawkesbury Peeress. The total for the sale was 8226g5. PROPERTY SALE Messrs A. Harris and Co. disposed of by auction in the estate of the late J. R. Hornsby a block of land at Wakari containing 11 acres 13 poles, with house and outbuilding. The first bidder quoted £SOO, and after keen competition the property was knocked down to Mr O’Mara at £790.

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