COMMERCIAL

Southland Times, Issue 17787, 17 July 1916, Page 4

COMMERCIAL

TH£ RIALTO. William Todd and Co. report the following sales on Saturday:— Poultry.—Large entry, good demand; hens, 1/0 to 2/3: pullets, ?•/- to 7/9; roosters, 2/- to 3/3; ducks, 2/6 to 4/6. I’igs.—Keen demand. Suckers, 16/- to to £l/1/6; weaners, £l/3'- (ft £l/6/6; stores (small), £l/0/- to £l/18/-; porker £2/13/-. Dray and harness, £23. Produce. —Potatoes, prime table, £7 to £7/10/- to'n; medium duality, £5/10/- to £6/10/- ton: inferior, 5/- to 8/- per bag; small potatoes, 2/- to 3/- bag. Oats, 6/9 to 0/3; wheat, 11/- to 16/- per bag; inferior, 10/- bag. EXCHANGE sale booms. Messrs McKay Bros, report the following prices ruling during the past week;— Poultry.—A good entry and good prices. Gecsp, 4/6 to »/6; pullets, 3/U« shens, 1/9 to 2/3; roosters, l/’O to 2/4. Pigs.—Small entry, prices very high. Suckers, 12/- to 16/-; weaners, 18/- to 25/-; stores, 30/- to 40/-. ' Fruit.—Fair supplies came to hand, prices for ail lines ruling high. Oranges (Sydney), 17/6; oranges, Mildura, 16/-; lemons, 17/6: mandarins, 17/6; passions, 10/-; pines, 14/6; Hobart apples, 11/6; .\.Z. dessert, 3d to 3%d; cooking, 2d to 2(id. Over 400 cases of apples, oranges, pines and mandarins are due to arrive this week. Produce.—Chaff, 7 trucks came to hand during the week. Prime, £4 ex store; cow chaff, big supplies on hand, 2/- to 2/6 per bag: oats, supplies low and consignments wanted, best feed, 10/to 12/-; medium feed, 8/6 to 9/6; wheat, 100 bags primest duality to hand, price 15/-; pollard, 13/6; bran, 8/6; onions. 7/6 cwt; swedes, 2/-; carrots, 5/- sack; parsnips, 6/6 sack; 2/6 bag. Potatoes, prime, £7/10/- ex store; medium, £6 to £7; pig potatoes, 3/6. Early seed in keen demand, and consignments will realise high prices. J Horse Covers. —Good business to report, but stocks are getting low. Farmers are advised to buy now as sharp rise in prices can be expected. Present prices, 22/6 to 25/6. Cow Covers. —11/6 to 12/6. Best value offering. Furniture. —Very good business in this department, particularly in bedsteads and bedding. We invite enquiries. General.—At our regular Saturday afternoon sale we offered curtains, boots and shoes, rugs, pictures, crockery and overcoats. There was a big attendance, and about 250 lots were sold. We invite entries for this special weekly sale. BBAT BBOS. Messrs Bray Bros., Ltd., report follows for week ending 15/7/lC; — Produce. —Potatoes, prime table, £7 10s; oniohs, 7/6 cwt; chaff, discoloured, £3 ton; prime, £4; oats, discoloured, 9/-; good, 10/- to 11/6 sack: wheat, 14/6 to 15/6 sack; pollard, 13/6 sack: oat dust, 4,6 sack; bran, 8/6 sack; 'pressed hay, clover, £5 ton; ryegrass, £3/10/-; pressor fescue, £2/10/- ton; 1/6 bale; pressed oaten straw, £3 per ton; wheat straw, £2/10/- ton; molasses, in casks, 6/6 cwt. Bacon, hitchons, 1/OVz lb; cheese, 9d lb mediums.

Vegetables.—ln good demand. Cabbage, M- to 6/- sack; carrots, 4/6 sack; parsnips, 2/6 small bag; swedes, 1/6 sack. Fruit.—Dessert apples, 2’/fed to 2d lb; cooking apples, 2%d to 2 : 54 d lb. Good enquiry for good sorts. Honey, bulk, s ’/fed to 6%d lb; 101b. tins, 6/-. Poultry, good enquiry. Kntries solicited. Pigs.—Good entry for stores. Horse Covers, 23/6 to 27/6; cow covers, 11 ffi to 12/6. Furniture. —Still continues in demand. Ask your friend who has bought off us, he is our reference. DUITEDEN MAS KITTS. DC.VKDIN, July 15. Tim oat market is very quiet. Merchants in the North Island are not keen to operate, and beyond the ordinary local demand, the North Island is practically the only outside market. On the other hand, farmer.! are firm holders. Prices are somewhat irregular, as whereas most Dunedin agents will not quote under 3/-, f.0.b., s.i., for A Gartons. with B's and A Sparrows a little less, it is understood that there are one or two others who arc prepared to do business at a lower figure. The supplies of chaff arc about equal to the demand. All good quality lots are readily placed on arrival. There is no shipping demand for the North Island, but a few enquiries are being received from Canterbury. Sales have been made this week at £2 12/-, on trucks, south. Potatoes are firmer to-day than they were at the beginning of the week. Prices have firmed about 2/- a ton, and for prime lots which will pass the grader, £7 12/- can be obtained. A quantity of the tubers coming in is affected with frost, and these have to he .picked over. There is not milch shipping owing to the difficulty of securing freight and the fact that Canterbury is quoting lower prices. It is understood, however, that the quality in Canterbury is not up to the local standard. Datest advice is that supplies in Canterbury are now nearly exhausted, consequently the market here will no doubt soon show a further firmness.

LONDON MARKETS. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, duly 14. There were very strong sales for merinos at full recent rates. Crossbred prices also were maintained. Taora clip top, 19 Vi d: a verage, 18 %d. The discount market is quiet and unsettled. Bills are about 5% per cent.; short loans, per cent. Lead—lmports 11(550 tons, exports 3180 tons. Danish Butter —Firmer and unchanged. Jute —Quiet and unchanged. VOMIT AND MARKETS. LONDON, July 15. Received July 16, 5.5 p.m. The Stock Exchange, from August 14, partially restores the pre-w-ar system of double quotations in the official list. The report of the Union Bank shows that deposits are £2 4,055,785; cash investments, remittances, £11,103,735; bills, £19,065,373. Wheat cargoes are firmly held and sparingly offered. The world's shipments promise to be on the small side. Chicago July options, £lO 7/6 to £lO9 10/-; September, fill 10/- to £llO. Copra is quiet. July-August, £3l. Hemp Is inactive: July-September, £4B. Cotton —July-August, 7.89. Rubber —Para, 2/10; plantation, 2/3%; smoked, 2/3 •*. Rabbits —The market is weaker and quotations are unaltered. Frozen Mutton —New Zealand, 9d; Australian, S%d; South American, H^gd. Lamb—New Zealand. (?); Australian. lOd; South American, 10% d. Wool— I There is a good selection of crossbreds and brisker bidding at recent rates. The prices for merinos arc being fully maintained. To date, 34,075 bales have been catalogued, and 30,145 sold. Pungatara, top, 18d; average, 17(fed.