COMMERCIAL

Southland Times, Issue 20446, 26 March 1928, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

THE RIALTO. Messrs William Todd and Co., Ltd., report the following sales at their weekly market on Saturday; March 24. Pigs.—Medium entry. Weaners 6/- to 10/-; small stores 11/6 to 17/6; stores £1 to £1 18/-; sows £2 5/-, £3. Poultry.—Heavy entry, good demand for .young hens and pullets. Hens 1/8 to 2/3; heavy breeds 2/- to 4/-; small W.L. pullets 4/- to 5/9; medium 6/6 to 7/- ; well-grown 7/9 to 10/6. Ducks 2/3 to 3/7, drakes 2/to 2/7; Brown Leghorn pullets 9/3; Geese 3/6 to 4/3; small cockerels 5d to 1/-; roosters 1/6 to 3/-. Produce.—Potatoes, heavy supplies have arrived during the week owing to digging becoming general—the market has eased accordingly and prime well-graded are realising £7 to £7 10/- ton; onions 11/- cwt; pickling onions 14/- cwt; chaff, prime £5 10/-; straw £4; hay £4 10/- to £5; wheat 24/- to 25/-; oats 16/-; oatdust 6/-; wheatdust 5/-; moose nuts 18/6; crushed oats 11/6; molasses 9/6; sucrosine 18/6; faterine 18/-; fowl grit 2/6. Vegetables: Cabbage 1/- to 3/- dozen; lettuce 2/-; carrots 9/- cwt; parsnips 14/-; beetroot 14/-; marrows 14/-; cauliflowers 3/- dozen. Miscellaneous: Barb-wire 26/- cwt; No. 8 galvanised wire 20/- cwt; new timber, all sizes 14/- cwt; new galvanised roofing iron 6Jd foot; fowl netting 3 feet 9/6, 6-feet 21/6; rabbit netting (17 guage) 19/-; rabbit traps (wire spring) 25/- dozen; pegs 2/-; nets 9/-; 600-gallon tanks £4 10/-; kauri tubs £2 15/-; baths £3 5/-; Ceylon tea, 51b boxes 12/6, 20ib chests 2/4 lb; honey, 51b tins 3/6, 101 b 6/6. Grass Seed: Good demand; Akaroa cocksfoot 6d lb; cowgrass lOd lb; white clover 1/-; perennial ryegrass, 64 bushel sacks 25/-; Italian Ryegrass 22/6; timothy 9d; crested dogstail lOd; lotus major 2/-; surface sowing clover mixture 4d lb.

F. BOWDEN AND CO. Messrs F. Bowdeff and Co. report a busy week. Plums are still plentiful and prices are low, they are easing off and this week should see the bulk of them finished. Freestone peaches are more plentiful and prices weaker. Tomatoes have eased off and prices have firmed considerably, there are some very choice lines coming from Otago Central. Pears are more plentiful, but most lines are on the hard side, anything ripe fit for immediate iise is making good money. Blackberries are available most days. Oranges and lemons came to hand on Saturday and sold at higher rates. Some very choice bananas are available. Nectarines are about finished, only small lines arriving which are quickly bought up. Apples, both cooking and dessert are arriving in larger quantities. Passion fruit are on hand. There is a much better inquiry for dairy cows and horses. Vegetables show a slight improvement in prices. Produce is moving off well, there are., good stocks of oats, bran, pollard, oatdust, chaff, hay, etc. on hand. The week closed with prices ruUng: Apples, dessert 7/6 to 13/-, cookers 6/- to 7/6; lemons 66/-; oranges 47/6; bananas 25/- to 26/-; passion fruit 10/- case; peaches 2d to 3d, crates 34d; pears 2d to 34d; tomatoes, dessert 3d to 44d, cooking 2d to 3d; nectarines lid to 3id; plums Id to 3d; blackberries 4d to sid; grapes 8d to 1/4 lb. Vegetables, Produce, Etc.—Beans 2d; honey 6d to 7d; rhubarb IJd; vegetable marrows Id lb; cabbage 1/- to 2/-; cauliflower 3/3; carrots 1/9 to 2/-; lettuce 2/6 dozen; cucumbers,, outdoor 3/- to 4/6 case; onions 10/6; potatoes 7/6 to 9/- cwt; oatdust 6/-; oats 14/- to 17/-; wheat 25/- to 26/-; Bran 9/-; pollard 11/-; swedes 1/tin; chaff £5 10/-; hay and straw £4 ton. Poultry.—We had some more choice lines of poultry in on Saturday, which realized from 9/- to 11/- each; hens 2/6; fowl grit 1/- to 2/6 bag. Pigs.—We are wanting 100 weaners to fill an order; weaners realized from 9/- to 11/-. Concrete troughs 30/-. We are cash buyers of bacon pigs, rail paid to Invercargill. Dairy Cows. —Two were entered for the sale on Saturday, and met with very keen competition, one realizing £l5 and the other £lO 10/-. Sales during the week were, two at £ll, 3 at £9 15/-, 1 at £B, heifer £7 10/-; cow covers 7/6 to 17/6.

Horses. —Two at £2l, £l5, £B, 18-month-old colt £l5. General.—Rabbit traps 24/- to 26/-; barrels 7/6; jam jars 5/6 dozen; Bicycle £1 17/6; wheelbarrows 30/- to 35/-; roofing iron, barb, Nos. 8, 9 and 10 galvanised and wire-netting at lowest market rates; tea 2/6 lb. D. W. McKAY, LTD. Messrs D. W. McKay, Ltd., Exchange Mart, Invercargill, report as follows: Bacon Pigs.—We are paying the highest ruling market price and receive every day except Saturday. Write us for quotations. Produce.—Heavy supplies of potatoes have arrived during the week, values easier. We recommend consignors to ease consignments for a week to enable the market to clear. Sales of chaff have been only in small quantities, bran and pollard have a steady sale. Wheat and oats still continue in light supply and prices remain firm. Oatdust is available, also hay suitable for bedding. Current prices for the week are as follows: Potatoes £6 to £8 per ton; Canterbury onions 12/- cwt; oats 16/- sack; chaff, good quality £5 10/- ex store, inferior 2/6 to 4/- per sack; oatdust to 6/- sack; hay for bedding 2/- bale. Fruit.—Tomatoes have been in short supply during the week and values have remained firm. Apples are coming forward plentifully, the principal demand is for Cox’s Orange Pippin and these are realizing satisfactory prices. The market is bare of bananas. Oranges are in short supply; fresh consignment due on Monday. Lemons are plentiful, prices in the buyers’ favour. Peaches and plums have been plentiful, but other stone fruits are finished for the season. Grapes are arriving regularly from Oamaru and realizing satisfactory prices. Current prices for week: Peaches 2d to 44d; plums 1/6 to 5/- box, according to variety, and sample; tomatoes 2jd to 5d per lb; apples, dessert 7/6 to 12/6 case, cooking 5/- to 10/6 case; pears 2d to 3d per lb; grapes to 1/5 lb; oranges 47/6 case; lemons, .Californian 60/-, Italian 35/-; Cucumbers 2/6 to 4/- dozen; cabbages 1/6 to 2/- dozen; carrots 7/- to 8/- cwt; marrows 9/- cwt; pumpkins 9/- cwt. General: New doors 25/- to 30/-; glass doors 25/-; galvanised iron—second-hand from 2/6 to 3/4 sheet, new, slightly damaged 3/3 to 5/6 sheet; Exchange tea 13/6 per 51b box; meat safes 30/- each; counters £3, £5, £7 10/-. Furniture. —Business continues steady in this department, and sales recorded are as follows:—China Cabinets from £6; leather dining suites from £l6; moquette from £25; kapok beds 40/-; sideboards from £6 ; wardrobes £5 10/-; camp folding chairs 10/each. Inspection invited. BRAY BROS., LTD. Messrs Bray Bros., Ltd. report brisk business during the past week at their daily auction sales commencing 9.30 a.m. Apples, peaches and plums were in heavy supply, and prices were in buyers’ favour. Supplies of tomatoes eased up a little on that of the previous week, and the week closed with prices firmer. Pears came to hand in increased quantities, and met with a good demand. Grapes are arriving regularly from Kakanui, and meet with a ready sale; Cape gooseberries are due to arrive at the end of this week. Prices for the week were as follows: —Apples, Cox Orange Pippin, Worcester Pearmain, S. Pearmain, Gravenstein, Johnathon, etc. 7/6 to 12/6 per case, according to sample; cooking apples, Walseleys, Alfristons, etc. 6/- to 8/- per case; pears, Winter Coles now arriving—also Easter Buirerre, B. Base, Cappermonts, etc., 2d to 3d per lb; nectarines are practically finished, to 5d lb; greengages, last of season, to 4id per lb; blackberries 3d to 6d lb; tomatoes, Ists 2|d to 44d per lb, 2nds 2d to 3d lb, 3rds sauce and cooking 1/6 box

to 2Jd per lb; cucumbers 3/- to 6/- per dozen, outdoor grown 3/- to 4/- per box; lemons, American double cases to 65/- per case, Italian to 30/- per case; cabbage 2/to 4/- per dozen; cauliflower 2/- to 6/dozen; carrots, table to Id lb; beans to 2d lb; potatoes 8/6 cwt to lid per lb; onions (table) 10/6 bag; pickling onions available this week; honey, 601 b 30/-, 101 b 6/6, 51b 3/6, 21b 1/6; wheat to 27/6 sack; salthck 2/- brick; totara posts, cut to required size, £6 to £7 per hundred, according to size and quantity. Furniture.—Easter reductions are being made by us on all lines of furniture and furnishings—7-piece suites from £l5. Nairn’s Kircaldy linoleum from 6/-; beds, with wire mattresses from £3 5/-; Sleepwell mattresses from 60/-; kapol^mattresses from 50/-; double flock 37/6; pianos from £35; cabinet gramophones from £5. Business For Sale—Grocery, fruit, confectionery, soft-drink and tea-room business in good suburban district with no opposition, four-roomed house with conveniences and large garage, also approximately one acre of land—freehold—and the price is £7OO. Stock at valuation. Terms arranged. LAND SALE AT GORE. PROPERTY PASSED IN. On Saturday afternoon Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Gore, on behalf of Mr W. Crothers, offered at auction a freehold grazing property comprising 1000 acres of good tussock country, well-grassed and subdivided. The property is situated within six miles of Gore by a good road and has a carrying capacity of 1000 ewes. The buildings comprise a three-roomed cottage, hut, loose-box, shearing shed and barn. There was a good attendance at the sale. Bidding commenced at £4 per acre and the property was passed in at £5 5/-.

THE SHAREMARKET. SATURDAY’S TRANSACTIONS. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, March 24. Sales reported: Inscribed Stock (1933) 5i per cent. £lOO 10/~, £lOO 7/6; Union Bank of Australia £l4 12/-; South British Insurance 59/9. Christchurch, March 24. Sales on ’Change: Commercial Bank of Sydney £26 16/-; New Zealand Refrigerating Co. (10/- paid) 7/7 (2 parcels); New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative 6| per cent. Stock (1930) £77 10/-; Mount Lyell 30/8. CHICAGO WHEAT. New York, March 24. Chicago Wheat: March 139 j; May 1391; July 136 j cents. LONDON MARKETS. (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, March 24. Sheep: Canterbury, light 7j; medium 64d; heavy s§d; North Island light 7d; medium 6jd; heavy 5Jd. Lambs: Canterbury, light 9jd; medium 9d; heavy 8j(d; seconds Bsd; other selecteds, light 9£d; medium 9d; North Island firsts, light B§d; medium 84d; seconds 81d; Australian firsts, Victorian 8d; other States 7£d; seconds—Victorian 7jd. Frozen Beef: New Zealand fores 3sd; hinds 4§d; Australian fores 3 9-16 d; hinds 4£d; Argentine fores 4d. Chilled Argentine fores 4id; others unchanged. Cotton: April 10.33 d per lb. Rubber: Para 12£d; Plantation, smoked 13d. Jute: March-April £3O 10/- a ton. Hemp: April-May £3l 10/- a ton. Copra: March-April £26 15/- a ton. Linseed Oil: £29 per ton. Turpentine: 40/3 per cwt. BUTTER AND CHEESE London, March 23. Butter: Colonial less active and slightly easier. New Zealand choicest salted 172/to 174/-; unsalted 174/- to 178/-; Australian choicest salted and unsalted 166/-; exceptionally good 168/-; Danish 196/-. Cheese firm; New Zealand 98/- to 100/-; Australian 96/- to 98/-.—A. and N.Z. LONDON WOOL SALES. London, March 23. At the wool slaes 11,371 bales were sold of which 7,749 were Australian, and 3842 Zealand. There was a good selection of greasy crossbreds and the best lot of slipes of this series. The keenest competition prevailed at full rates. New Zealand clips: Kanapa, top rates. New Zealand clips: Kanapa, top 22d, average 21d; Putiti 21}d and 20d; Ngaio to 22d; Iwjiea 23d and 22jd.—A. and N.Z. Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co., Ltd., are in receipt of a cable from their London agents, dated 22nd instant, reading as under:—Sales continue firm; competition keen, all sections. Crossbred greasy comeback and crossbred greasy fine—market par to 5 per cent, advance. LONDON TALLOW MARKET. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having received the following advice from their head office, London, under date of the 23rd:—Tallow: Owing to scarcity of supplies there will be no public sales next week.