COMMERCIAL

Southland Times, Issue 20045, 6 December 1926, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

THE RIALTO. Messrs William Todd and Co, Ltd, report the following sales on Saturday, December 4:— Poultry.—Hens 2/- to 2/9; heavy breeds 2/11 to 3/-; roosters 2/3 to 3/8; ducks 2/8 to 3/6; small cockerels 3d to 9d; duck and ducklings 13/6; hens and chicks 15/-, 18/-. Pigs.—l 46 entered; good demand. Small weaners £1 3/- to £1 8/-; weaners £1 10/to £1 15/-; small stores £1 13/6 to £1 19/6; stores £2 4/- to £2 15/-; sow and litter £9 15/-; sow £5; Yorkshire boar £2 10/-; Berkshire cross sow £lO 10/-. Lambs 12/6; calf 2/9. Produce.—Potatoes £4 10/- to £4 15/-; onions 25/- crate; chaff £4 10/- to £5 10/-; cow chaff 2/6 to 3/- sack; straw £4 10/-; hay £5; wheat 25/- to 30/-; oats 13/6 to 18/-; barley 20/-; crushed peas 24/-; oatdust 6/-; sorrel 6/-; Moose Meal 19/-; Moose Nuts 17/6; fowl grit 2/6; Meat Meal 2/9; molasses 8/6; bran 10/-; pollard 12/-. Miscellaneous.—Barbed wire 22/-; No. 8 galvanised wire 20/-; fowl netting 14/6; rabbit netting 22/6; totara posts £7 10/100. Grass Seeds. —Ryegrass 15/- to 17/- sack; clover 3d to 8d lb; Akaroa cocksfoot 9d; dogstail 6d lb. Vegetables.—Good demand. Cabbage 2/to 4/- dozen; lettuce 1/6 to 4/-; rhubarb 3d to 4d lb; gooseberries 2d to 3d; Ratamahatmaya tea in chests 2/4; 51b boxes 13/6. BRAY BROS. Messrs Bray Bros, Ltd, report as follows : Fruit and Vegetables.—Supplies of strawberries have been very heavy during the week, and prices were very low. Cherries have not been quite so plentiful, and prices have advanced. Hothouse tomatoes are in good demand, and prices are firm. Canadian apples, new potatoes and green peas are arriving regularly, and meet with a very good demand. The week closed with prices ruling at follows: —Apples (Canadian Delicious, Jonathon and Mclntosh Red) 20/to 25/- case, New Zealand Stunners, DemoJ crats, Doherty, etc. from 6/6 to 14/6 case, according to variety, with secondary quality, shrivelled fruit at from 2/6 to 5/6 case. Cooking apples are in very good demand, and large size sell at up to 8/6 case; pears (best quality dessert) to lb; strawberries 1/- to 1/9 pottle according to condition; cherries 5d to 1/2 lb; hothouse tomatoes 1/4 to 2/- lb; oranges (fresh supply of Adelaide arriving early in the week) —Sydney Valencias 22/6 case, Californian oranges arriving early in the week; lemons (Californian) 40/- to 45/- per double case; cauliflowers, short supplies, 10/- to 15/- dozen; cabbage 1/6 to 3/6 dozen; lettuce 1/6 to 5/- dozen, according to quality; asparagus 7/- to 8/- dozen; rhubarb 3Ad lb; green peas to 5Jd lb; spring onions 1/- bunch. New potatoes 3d to 6d lb, according to quality; walnuts (Akaroa) 1/1 to 1/2 lb, and Chinese 9d lb. Produce and General. —Table potatoes (slow selling) £4 10/- to £5; pig potatoes from 1/- bag; onions (Canadian) 23/- to 24/- crate; pollard (2001 b 23/6; bran (1001 b 11/-; oats 18/- to 21/-; wheat 27/6 to 30/-; oatdust 6/-; sorrel seed 3/6 and 6/-; grass-seed 12/6 sack; hay (clover) £5 ton; rye hay £4 10/- ton; straw £4 10/ton; chaff £4 10/- to £5 10/- ton; Sucrosine 17/6 bag; molasses 9/- per case of two tins; saltlick 2/- block; honey, 601 b tins 30/-, 101 b tins 6/6, 51b tins 3/6; posts (totara, broadleaf and red birch) from £6 hundred; oil casks 5/-; oil drums 6/-; wheelbarrows 35/-; motor car (Ford s.s.) £35. Furniture.—The holiday rush is now in evidence at our Spey street furniture warehouse where we have a large range of Nairn’s new linoleum, also rugs and doorslips, in all the latest patterns. We specialise in bedsteads and bedding, and are showing a fine range of the well-produced “Sleepwell” mattress in both kapok and mill-wooL Duchesse chests from £3 15/- upwards, in all designs including square, oblong, oval, reflex and cheval mirror styles. We are always ready to quote, and would like customers to shop early to avoid any possible delays. Businesses for Sale.—Town fruit, confectionery and grocery business with living rooms, good position and turnover—£4so, walk-in, walk-out. Town pastrycook’s business with living rooms attached, £3OO, including plant. Country smithy in a thriving township, £2OO, including building plant and stock-in-trade. F. BOWDEN AND CO. Messrs F. Bowden and Co. report business bright during the week. There has been a good inquiry for dairy cows and all of those entered on Saturday were cleared at satisfactory prices. We had a large entry of horses at our sale on Saturday, but bidding was not very spirited. Produce of every kind is selling fairly well. We have good stocks of bran, pollard, oats, wheat, straw, sorrell, hay, Farro Food, crushed oats, chaff, ryecorn, etc. on hand. Cauliflowers, cabbage, lettuce carrots and parsnips are realising good prices, supplies short of requirements. Supplies of apples are easing off considerably. Fresh shipments of bananas, oranges and new potatoes should be in early in the week. Cherries, strawberries and Christchurch tomatoes are arriving more regularly now and prices are easier. The week closed with prices ruling:— Apples, Canadian 21/6 to 24/-; New Zea-land-grown 8/- to 13/-; tomatoes, Island 7/- to 13/-, according to condition; Christchurch hothouse 1/7A to 2/5; cherries 4£d to lOAd; strawberries 9Ad to 1/9; oranges 22/6 to 24/6; lemons, Californian (double case) 41/-, New Zealand half-case 11/-; bananas 21/- to 37/-, according to condition; Gooseberries 2Ad to 3d; grapes, Californian 35/- keg; rhubarb 3d to 4d; peanuts 5d to s|d. Vegetables and Produce.—Cabbages 1/to 3/9; cauliflowers 8/- to 11/6; cucumbers 9/- to 13/6; onions 20/- to 24/- crate; new potatoes (Auckland) 3£d; table potatoes £4 to £4 10/-; straw £4; hay £5 10/- to £6; chaff £5 10/- to £5 15/-; crushed oats 12/6; oats 15/- to 17/-; ryecorn 18/- to 23/-; Moosemeal 19/-; oatdust 6/6; sorrel 6/-; Farro Food 16/-; pollard (150’s) 18/-; wheat 23/6 to 30/-. Poultry.—Hens 1/8 to 2/6; hens and chicks 23/- to 25/6; fowl grit 1/- to 2/6. Pigs.—Weaners 29/- to 32/-; stores 35/-; sows £6 10/-, £4 10/-. Dairy Cows.—£9 10/-, £9 7/6, £6 10/-, 2 at £4 10/-; £3 7/6; bull £7 10/-. Timber.—Good stocks first-class on hand. Totara posts £6 10/- to £8 10/-; stakes 30/- to 40/-; droppers 12/- 100; strainers 6/- to 10/-; gate hinges 9/-. General.—Expresses £l4 10/-, £5 10/-; stack cover 30/-; gate 10/-; door 15/-; boiler £5 12/6; table 50/-; sash 7/6; canaries 5/- each; rifle £2 1/-; wheelbarrows 32/- to 35/-; step ladders 12/6 to 15/-; lawnmowers 15/- to 30/-; English netting, barb, No. 8 and 10 galvanised wire and roofing iron at lowest rates; tea, 101 b box 24/-.

D. W. McKAY, LTD. Messrs D. W. McKay, Ltd., Exchange Mart, Invercargill, report as follows: Bacon Pigs.—Market easier. Produce.—Table potatoes very plentiful and demand slow; fowl wheat 26/- to 30/-; feed oats 12/6 to 16/- sack; pollard 18/6; bran 10/6; oatdust 6/-; prime chaff to £5 10/-; pressed hay £4 per ton; onions, market unchanged and well supplied with Canadians; Ryecorn 10/-; barley 22/-; manure 10/-; fowl grit 2/6. Fruit.—Very busy week in this department. Supplies of tomatoes, cherries and strawberries now coming to hand. The prices of tomatoes are slightly easier. Good samples of cherries realising satisfactory values, but small and damaged low values. Strawberries eased a little during the week, but on Saturday prices again firmed. Full supplies of Canadian apples at present on hand. Shipment of Fiji bananas due about the end of the wedk. Current prices:— Strawberries lid to 1/6 per pottle; cherries 3d to 1/2 per lb; tomatoes, first-grade

to 2/3 lb; Californian lemons 45/-; Californian Navel oranges 47/6; Fiji bananas to 35/-; cucumbers to 15/- dozen; cabbages to 6/6 dozen; lettuce 1/- to 3/9 dozen; spring onions to 2/- dozen bunches; green peas to 5d lb; rhubarb to 4Ad lb; gooseberries to 3d per lb. General.—Exchange tea 13/6 per 51b box; wheelbarrow 25/-; new panel doors 27/6; tents 25/- to £3 5/-; collapsible beds 35/-; fishing rod 25/-, etc. Furniture.—Business in the furniture department is very satisfactory. The demand at this time of the year is principally for bedsteads and bedding. All our stocks have been remarked, and we recommend inspection. Quotations on application. GORE HORSE SALE. A FAIR MARKET. There was a fair attendance at the monthly horse sale held by the National Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd., at Gore on Saturday, fair values being received for good farm sorts. The following prices were obtained: —Bay mare, 8 years, £33; bay 'gelding £29; bay gelding aged, £lO 10/-; chestnut gelding £18; bay gelding, aged, £10; bay mare, 7 years, £3l 10/-; 1 do. £37 10/-; bay gelding £l6; 1 do. £l7 10/-; hack £7. THE SHAREMARKET. SATURDAY’S TRANSACTIONS. Auckland, December 5. Sales on ’Change: Inscribed Stock (1936) 5A per cent. £101; Western Australian Bank 54/9; Auckland Gas 23/9; Wilson’s Cement 33/6; Alburnia 3/9; Moanatairi (cont. issue) 5/3; Lucky Shot 1/7. Christchurch, Decembpr 5. Sales reported: Western Australian Bank 54/6; Bank of New Zealand (ngHts) U/». Sales on ’Change: Christchurch Gas 24/7; National Insurance 73/6. LONDON MARKETS. (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, December 4. Sheep: Canterbury, light 6d; medium sid; heavy s|d; North Island, light sjd, heavy sjd; Argentine, light sd. Lambs and other selecteds, light, none offering. Australian first 8 7-16 d; others 8 3-16 d; seconds, Victoria BJd; others 8d; thirds 8d; Argentine seconds 7 Ad. Chilled Argentine fores, 4d; others are unchanged. Hides are active. The Home and Continental demand is brisk, except France and Belgium which are handicapped by the exchange. Dry salted meatworks, Queensland 351 b to 551 b 9 Ad; 301 b to 401 b 9id J 251 b to 351 b 9d; 201 b to 301 b 9|d. New South Wales, none offering. Wet salted meatworks, Queensland 501 b to 601 b 7jd; 401 b to 501 b 7Jd. New South Wales 501 b to 601 b 7?d; 401 b to 501 b 7jd; Victorian abattoirs 501 b to 601 b 7Ad; 401 b to 501 b 7]d. Cotton. —January 6.34 d per lb. Rubber: Para Plantation 18Ad. Jute: December-January £29 10/- per ton. Hemp: October-December 38Ad. Copra: December-January £24 15/- per ton. Linseed oil £3l 15/- per ton. Turpentine: £62 9/- per ton.—A. and N.Z. WHEAT CARGOES. (Rec. 5.5 pun.) London, December 3. Wheat cargoes are slow and steadier on the better American tone and bullish Argentine weather reports. Parcels are in moderate request at 3d to 9d advance. Sales ex the Oronsay are at 57/-. Liverpool futures: December 11/4f; March 1/71; May 10/5| per cental.—A. and N.Z. LONDON WOOL SALES. GOOD COMPETITION. (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, December 4. At the fourth wool sales there was a good selection of Merinos and slipes, but a small offering of greasy crossbreds. There was good competition and prices were on a parity with the highest point of the series. —A. & N.Z.