COMMERCIAL

Southland Times, Issue 17732, 9 August 1917, Page 4

COMMERCIAL

PRODUCE PRICES CURRENT. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1917. WHOLESALE. Fresh farm butter, 1/-. Fresh butter (separator), 1/2. Factory butter, 1/5. Eggs, 1/3. Potatoes, £4. Flour, £ls 10/- to £l6 10/-. Oatmeal, £2l 10/- to £22 10/-. Pollard. £7 5/-. Bran, £4. RETAIL. Fresh butter (farm), 1/2., Fresh butter (separator), 1/4. Factory butter, 1/7. Cheese, 1/1. Eggs, 1/6. Bacon, 1/4. Potatoes, 6/- cwt, or 141hs !/-. Flour—2oolb, 34/-; 1001b, 17/6; 501b, 251b, 4/9. Oatmeal —25's, 6/3; 50’s, 12/3. Pollard, 13/6. Bran, S/-. Bisto, 1/-, 1/6. Onions, 3d per lb. Camp coffee, 1. 10. Kerosene, 8/6 and 16/6. Sugar of milk, 2/-. Mustard, 9d and 1/4. Cream of tartar, 3/-. Candles (Rangoon), lid. Lee & Perrin's sauce, 1/8 and 5/0. CUSTOMS REVENUE. The folowing was the revenue received At the Custom house for period Ist to 7th August Customs duties £2787 11 10 Beer duty 24 0 11 Light dues 32 0 11 Total £2B-43 13 8 BURNSIDE MARKET. (Per United Press Association.) DUNEDIN, August 8. At Burnside 230 fat cattle were penned. The quality was good, and there was a keen sale at prices equal to last week’s rates. Extra prime bullocks, £25 12/6; prime, £2O to £23 2/6; medium, £lB 5/to £l9 17/6; light, £l2 12/6 to £l7; extra prime heifers and cow*, £22; prime, £l6 10/- to £IS 10/-; medium, £l3 to £l4 25/-; light and inferior, £lO to £l2. Sheep.—2476 penned of good quality. was very keen and prices were firm. Extra prime wethers, 52/6; prime, 44/- to 49/-; medium, 39/6 to 40/-; light, 33/- to 38/-; extra prime ewes, 48/-; prime, 39/- to 42/-; medium, 35/- to 38/9; light and inferior, 23/- to 32/-. Lambs. —620 penned. The quality was 3»ot so good as usual, but freezing buyers competed keenly for anything suitable, whde graziers secured unfinished lots. Prime, 29/- to 31/b; medium, 27/- to 28/9; Others, 21/- to 26/-. Pigs.—small yarding of fats, and only two pens of stores. The demand was good gnH prices advanced considerably. ADDINGTON MARKET. CHRISTCHURCH, August 8. At Addington market the double market 'ln view of Grand National holidays next week brought forward the finest collection of prime fat cattle and sheep ever seen in s public saleyard in the Dominion. The Attendance was also large. Southland was well represented with both cattle and ■aheep. There was a shaqi advance in the ;value of beef, the whole yarding averaging *ver 60/- per lOOlbs. The top price was £62 for an exceptionally large and prime fchorthona bullock, sent in by J. Garland "(Bennetts', and another large and prime bullock, a Hereford, was sold on behalf of ' P. Anderson (Stirling), at £47. Many locally-bred and fattened bullocks sold at £3O and upwards. There was a great show ; of extra prime fat sheep, and prices fur ordinary prime wethers showed an advance •f about 3 - a head. Fred Bull (Wadihngionl, again topped the market with Id.-; Roinney, Shropshire, and purebred Sh-op-ahire wethers, which sold at £7 5/- to £l2 1U -. A. W. Rutherford, junr. (Brnokda!‘“, sold merino wethers at 51/-, which Li a record for the yards. The average price jK-r head of fat sheep and fat cattle was also a record. A few new season’s fat lambs met with good competition. There was an easier demand for ewes in lamb, but store wethers and hoggets sold ■well, as did store cattle. Pigs of all clas-w-s met with a good sale, choppers sel.ing tip to £ls, and baconers to £6 8/-. Store Sheep—Two-tooth ewes, 38/9 to 41/6; four and six-tooth ewes. 30/- to 33/- ; six and eight-tooth ewes. 32/6; s.m. ewes, 23/9 to 30//'; two and four-tooth ■wethers, 29/- to 34/5; i four and six-tooth wethers, 34/- to 36/5; six and eight-tooth ■wethers, 28/8 to 37/-; merino wethers. 27/to uTAi ; ewe hosipets, 30/ !1 to 3.5 / it ; wether hoggets, 27/- to 28/9; m.s. hoggets, .23/9 to 31/9; new season’s fat lambs, 22/6 *o 37/-. Fat Sheep—Extra prime wethers to £l2 10/-; prime wethers, 40/- to 50/-; lighter -wethers. 34/6; extra prime merino wethers.

51/-; prime merino wethers, 32/S to 39/9 extra prime ewes to £4 5/-; prime ewes 37/0 to 43/-; medium ewes, 33/- to 37/lighter wethers, 29/- to 32/0; extra prime hoggets, 00/-; prime hoggets, 28/6 to 39/-. Fat Caitlc.—Extra prime steers, £32 to £62; prime steers, £l7 to £3O; ordinary steers. £lO to £l6; extra prime heifers, £l7 .">/-; prime heifers, £l3 to £l6; ordinary heifers, £lO to £l2 10/-; extra prime rows, £22 .'>/-; prime cows, £ls to £l9; ordinary cows. £9 5/- to £l4, Store Cattle.—-Mixed yearlings. 30/- to £2 15/-; yearling stores, £5 16/-; two-year stores. £514/- to £9 8/-; two-year heifers, £7 to £7 2/-; three-year steers, £l3 15/-j dry cows, £5 to £9 10/-; dairy cows, £5 to £ls 15/-. Pips.--Choppers. £5 to extra heavy haooners. £6 8/ ; heavy baconcrs, £5 5/to £5 12'-; light baconers, £4 to £5; equal to Sid lb; heavy porkers. 57/6 to 75/-; light porkers, 48/- to 05/-; equal to 9tel to lOd lb; large stores, 52/- to SS/-; medium, 42/- to 50/-; smaller, 32/to 38/-; weaners, 24/- to 28/-.