COMMERCIAL

Southland Times, Issue 19895, 14 June 1926, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

LOCAL MARKETS. BRAY BROS. Messrs Bray Bros., Ltd., report as follows : Fruit and V^etables: —Apples, choice graded and coloured dessert Delicious, Jonathan, C.OJP, Scarlets 8/- to 11/6 per case; secondary quality 4/6 to 6/6 per case; cooking apples, large size, best varieties to 8/6 case; others 5/- to 6/6. Pears 2Ad to 3d lb, for best quality, and secondary to 2d lb. Quinces 3d lb. Oranges and lemons arriving early. Parsnips to lid lb. Carrots Id lb. Cabbage 1/6 to 2/6 dozen. Swedes 2/6 to 3/6 bag. Produce and General: —Potatoes £6 10/to £8 ton. Onions 16/6 cwt. Wheat 27/6 to 30/- bag. Oatdust 5/-. Sorrel 6/-. Bran (100’s) 11/-. Pollard (150’s) 18/-. Sucrosine 17/-. Oats 17/6 to 21/-. Chaff £6 10/- to £7. Clover hay £6 ton. Rye hay £4 10/-. Straw £4 10/- ton. Carrots 7/- cwt. Molasses 4/6 tin. Salt Lick 2/block. Horse covers 35/- to 37/6. Cow covers 15/- to 17/6. Posts (totara) £7 per hundred. New Domo churn £3 10/-. New Domo separator £6 10/-. Storrie’s lime sower £l2. Pennsylvania drill £l4. S.F. plough £6. Wheelbarrows (new) £2. Casks (oil) 6/-. Muttonbirds (in kits of 30 to 40) 9Ad per bird. Motor Cars and Cycles:—We draw attention to the special auction sale of motor vehicles on Saturday next (19th inst.), and invite further entries. Furniture.—Brisk business at our Spey street warehouse where there has been a steady demand for Chesterfield, Moquette suites, Mission suites, duchess chests, China cabinets, Nairn’s linoleum, bedsteads and bedding. We specialise in complete house furnishing and our prices are remarkable low. Several first-class pianos on hand, and we invite inspection, and will gladly give quotations. F. BOWDEN & CO. F. Bowden and Co., report the best entry of horses they have ever offered, being some of the finest draughts entered since they have been selling horses. There was a good attendance of buyers, and competition was keen for young horses. There was a good entry of cows, and anything in profit met with keen competition. General business continues to grow and increased sales were made during the week. Good stocks of bran, pollard, clover hay, straw, oats, wheat and potatoes are on hand. Big sales of fencing posts, timber, fencing wire and roofing iron are being made. Supplies of apples and pears have eased off and prices are firmer. Bananas are short, the last shipment arrived in Auckland over-ripe and none were sent south. Oranges and melons are plentiful. Lemons are wanted. A few local tomatoes and grapes are available. Cabbages and cauliflower are slow of sale. The week closed with prices ruling:— Apples, dessert 6/- to 9/-, cookers 5/6 to 7/9; lemons Til-', passion fruit 15/-; marmalade oranges 17/6 to 18/-; mandarines 17/6; Island oranges 9/- to 20/- case; tomatoes 1/3 to 1/44; grapes lOd to 1/-; pears 2d to 2Ad lb. Vegetables and Produce:—Pumpkins lsd to 2d; jam melons 2d to 24d; carrots Hd; parsnips lid; peanuts sd; rhubarb lfd lb; onions 18/6 cwt; potatoes £6 10/- to £7; clover hay £6; chaff £6; straw £4 10/ton; bran 10/- to 11/- 1001 b; pollard 24/(200’s); swedes 2/6; oats 10/- to 18/-; wheat 28/- to 30/-; oatdust 6/-; crushed oats 12/6; ryecorn 18/9 to 23/-; sorrel 6/-; cabbage 17- to 2/3; cauliflower 2/- to 4/6 dozen. Ornamental and fruiting shrubs, sold at satisfactory prices. Orders taken for all varieties of hedge trees. Poultry:—Good entry, light hens 1/3 to 2/3; heavy hens 1/8 to 2/4. Preserved eggs 1/9 dozen; fowl grit 2/-. Ferrets:—Good entry, keener competition, 4/6 to 13/-; nets 8/6 to 12/6 dozen. Rabbit Traps:—Second-hand traps 12/-; Sidebothams 25/6; Kiwire 28/-; Kiwi 31/-; Record, brass tipped 32/6 dozen; cheaper quotations for quantities. Pegs 1/9 dozen. Horses:—£4o, £33, £3O 10/-, £25, £l6, aged £5 15/-, £3. Horse covers 20/- to 35/- for the best made. Cows.—£lo, £9, £7 15/-, £6 15/-, £4 15/-, £3 7/6, £3, £4 15/-; separator £5, cow covers 12/6 to 17/6.-

Umber:—New at satisfactory prices. Posts £6 10/- to £8; strainers 6/- to 10/-; stakes 39/- to 40/-; droppers 10/- to 12/100; clothes posts 5/- each; gate hinges 9/-. Second-hand Furniture: Some prices realised: Dining table 10/-; S.W. bedstead and wire mattress £4 5/-; wardrobe £5; sideboard £4 10/-; TJB. washstand 7/6; wire sofa 30/-; pushchair 10/-; portmanteau 22/6; DJ. bedstead 18/6; flock bed £1 5/-, £1 2/6; clock £1 15/-. General:—Gentleman’s bike £3 2/6; lady’s bike £5; step ladders 12/- to 15/-; barrels 5/- to 12/6; wheelbarrows 35/-; English netting, barb, No. 8, No. 9 and No. 10 galvanised wire and roofing iron at market rates; tea 51b box 12/6. D. W. McKAY, LTD. Messrs D. W. McKay, Ltd., Exchange Mart, Invercargill, report as follows: Bacon Pigs:—We are cash buyers and pay the highest market prices. We receive every day except Saturday. Produce:—Market well supplied with most lines. Potatoes £6 to £7 10/- per ton, ex store; chaff £4 to £6 10/- ton; cow chaff 2/- to 3/- sack; oats 17/- to 22/6; wheat 28/- to 31/-; straw 3/6 bale; clover hay 4/6 bale; bran 12/6; pollard 18/6; Canterbury onions 17/6; oatdust 5/6; sorrell seed 5/6; poultry grit 2/6. Fruit:—Supplies have eased during the week and prices all round have firmed; choice dessert apples meeting a keen demand, same applies to cookers. The market is bare of oranges, fresh supplies due on Monday. The market is also bare of lemons, next supplies by the Manuka. The Waikouaiti brings supplies of mandarines, pineapples, and melons. Current prices: Dessert apples 6/- to 12/6 case, cookers 5/- to 8/-; pears 5/- half-case; quinces 2|d; oranges to arrive, bananas to arrive; lemons 50/- double case. General:—Muttonbirds, /' full supplies, counts to suit; rabbit netlfis V- eafch or 10/dozen; Sidebotham rabbit traus 25/6 per dozen in 3 dozen lots; Exchange tea 13/6 51b box; cow covers 12/- to 15/6; horse covers 34/- to 38/-; new galvanised iron at current market rates. Furniture:—Pabcolin squares from 42/6; dining-room suites £l5; D.W. bedstead and bedding £5 17/6; hospital bed 30/-; duchess chest £3 5/- to £8 15/-. A new shipment of linoleums just opened comprising some very attractive designs, prices from 6/yard. Inspection invited. THE RIALTO. William Todd and Co., Ltd., report the following sales on Saturday, June 12: — Poultry:—Good demand. Hens 1/5 to 2/4; roosters 2/- to 3/3; cockerels 1/5 to 2/-; White Leghorn pullets 5/9 to 7/-; Rhode Island Red pullets 5/3; second year hens 3/9 to 4/6. Ducks 2/6 to 3/6. Turkey gobblers 9/- to 10/-, Turkey hens 7/-; geese 4/6 to 5/-. Pigs:—Smaller entry than usual; keen demand. Small weaners 18/- to £1 2/6; weaners £1 4/6 to £1 10/-; small stores £1 12/- to £2 6/6; board £2 3/-. Cows:— £5 10/-, £B. Spring cart £l2; separator £5; morticing machine £5 10/-; Saddle £5 10/-. We held a clearing sale of dairy cows on account of Mrs Garret, at Woodend on Wednesday, and disposed of 16 head at prices ranging from £3 10/- to £7. Draught filly £2O; separator £6; sundries at satisfactory prices. Bacon Pigs:—We are cash buyers at full market rates. Produce:—Potatoes, prime quality £6 10/- to £7; chaff £6 to £6 5/-; clover hay £6; straw £4 10/- to £5; onions 16/- cwt; oats 13/- to 16/-; wheat 29/- to 30/-; barley 23/-; sorrel 6/-; oatdust 6/-; whdatdust 6/6; ryecorn 20/-; Moose Meal 19/-; Moose Nuts 17/6; fowl grit 2/6; molasses 8/6 cwt; Sucrosine 18/-; carrots (for poisoning) £7 ton. Vegetables:—Cabbage 2/- to 2/6 dozen; cauliflower 3/-; carrots 9/- cwt; parsnips 12/- cwt; swedes 2/6; beetroot lid lb. Miscellaneous: —Horse-covers, felt-lined 25/-; do. white duck 30/-, do. green flax 38/- to 39/-; cow covers 16/-; barb-wire (English) 26/- cwt, (American) 22/- cwt; No. 8 galvanised English wire 21/- cwt; fowl netting (50 yards) 13/6; rabbit netting 23/6; rabbit traps 27/6 dozen; rabbit pegs 1/6 dozen; rabbit nets 10/- dozen; mutton birds lOd each; honey 21b jar 1/6, 101 b tin 6/6; Ceylon tea (in chests) 2/4 lb; new riding saddles £4 10/- to £5; bridles 12/6. CLEARING SALE AT PYRAMID. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., held a most successful clearing sale at Pyramid yesterday on account of Mr E. Soper, senior, who is giving up his farm. The large herd of cattle was disposed of at satisfactory rates, cows selling at £l2, £ll, £6 2/6, £B, £5 12/6, £5 15/-, £4 12/6, £4 10/-, £8 5/-, £5 15/-, £6 16/- and £6 10/- down to £1 7/6. Two heifers sold at £4 12/6, two at £4 and four at £3; 18-months’ old steers and heifers brought £2, and yearling calves 17/-. The machinery and farm implements brought satisfactory prices all through. HORSE SALE AT GORE. YOUNG SORTS IN DEMAND. Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., conducted their monthly horse sale at their bazaar on Saturday afternoon, just on 70 horses being forward. It was quite noticeable that taken all through the quality was above that generally seen in the yards. Unfortunately the weather was wet and the attendance was not large, but everything considered the sale was a fair one. Good young sorts were in demand; but old and stale sorts were slow of sale. The top price was for a big upstanding 7-year-old gelding offered on account of Mr J. Harvey, Waikaia, which realised £46, the purchaser being Mr J. R. McMurray, Gore. Another good quality 4-year-old gelding vended by Mr N. Kelly, Okipua, realised £44, being purchased at this price by Mr W. B. White, Black Hills. Among the best prices realised were 7-years-old mare £39 10/-, 3-year-old gelding £39 10/-; 7-year-old gelding £3O 10/-; 7-year-old mare £33 10/-; gelding £27 10/. Part of the yarding consisted of unbroken colts and geldings and these sold under fair competition at prices ranging from £7 10/- to £2O. THE SHAREMARKET. SATURDAY’S TRANSACTIONS. Auckland, June 13. Sales on ’Change: Devonport Borough Debentures £lOO 10/-; Commercial Bank of Australia 30/9; Auckland Gas 23/10; Colonial Sugar £54 5/-; Milne and Choyce Debenture Stock 25/6; Wilson’s Cement 34/6; Alburnia 5/9; Kawarau 7/5; Lucky Shot (cont), 1/7, 1/8, 1/7. Christchurch, June 13. Sales reported: Royal Bank (£4 paid) £7 4/6; Staples Brewery 39/-; Kaiapoi Woollens (17/- paid) 14/3; British Tobacco (ord. cum. div.) 51/9 (two parcels). Sales on ’Change: South British Insurance 61/-; New Zealand Refrigerating (cont.), 8/3; Buras-Philp 37/-. APPLE PRICES. (Rec. p.m.) London, June 12. Apple prices in London and provinces generally are easier. Many New Zealand Jonathans are arriving in soft condition. Six thousand cases of New Zealand apples by the Port Victor sold at auction at Southampton mostly ranged from 5/- to 10/9 lots. Jonathans 10/6, 11/6; Qeopatras 12/-; Cox’s 13/- to 16/-. —A. and N.Z. CHICAGO WHEAT QUOTATIONS. New York, June 12. Chicago Wheat quotations: July 138 J; September 1^54; December- per hyiahpl