COMMERCIAL

Southland Times, Issue 20832, 22 July 1929, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

LOCAL MARKETS F. BOWDEN AND CO. Messrs F. Bowden and Company report brisk business during the week. Hay has been in keen demand. Good sales of chan have been made during the week, but good stocks are still on hand, and it is being freely offered by farmers. The potato market is showing an improved tone, prices being much firmer, good sales have been made during the week, stocks are on the light side and we could do with consignments. Seed potatoes are now being inquired for. Bran, pollard, oats, wheat, oatdust, sucrosine, swedes and cruhed oats are in full supply. All varieties of vegetables with the exception of cauliflowers are in full supply, prices being on. a par with last week, cauliflowers are commanding good prices. Most fruits in season are available. Most of the apples-arriving are on the small side and are hard.to clear, good graded fruit meets with a ready sale. Supplies of pears have eased off and prices arc firmer. Oranges and lemons are available. A shipment of Fiji bananas have been held up by the floods, but they will be available for sale on Monday. Good stocks of mutton-birds are on hand.

The week closed with prices ruling:— Oranges, S.A. Commons 22/- to 24/6, Navels 25/- to 26/-, Island, repacks 23/6 to 25/6, Poorman 12/6 to 15/-; lemons 25/to 30/-; mandarines 22/6 to 24/-; apples, dessert 5/- to 9/-, cookers 4/6 to 6/6 case; pears 2/6 to 4/6 half-case. Vegetables, Produce, Etc.—Cauliflowers 2/6 to 7/3; cabbages 2/6 to 3/-; leeks 2/9 to 3/-; cut flowers 5/6 dozen; parsnips lid; carrots Lid; Jersey Bennie seed potatoes 2Jd; melons 2Jd; pumpkins Id lb; muttonbirds 81d to 9d each; chaff £5 5/- to £6 5/-; straw £4; hay £4 5/- to £5 5/-; table potatoes £7 ton; oatdust 6/6; swedes 2/6; pollard 11/-; bran 9/-; sucrosine 18/6; oats 16/-; wheat 25/-; crushed oats 12/6 bag. Poultry.—Young pullets 3/- to 3/4, hens 2/5 to 2/9; grit 1/- to 2/6. Pigs.—Small stores 17/6. We are cash buyers of bacbn pigs at full market rates, rail paid to Invercargill. Dairy Cows;—There has been a good inquiry during the week for factory calvers, and a fair demand for cows in full milk or near to profit, sales made are £l2 10/-, 3 at £l2, 5 at £lO 10/-, 2 at £lO, 10 at £9, 12 at £B. Covers 15/- to 18/6. Horses.—£32, £l7 5/-, £l2 5/-, £5. Covers 27/6 to 38/-. Turnip cutter £4. Timber.—Over 5000 ft of second-hand timber including a good proportion of flooring, and 150 sheets of second-hand iron was sold at Saturday’s sale, new timber is also meeting a ready sale at 12/- to 14/-; totara and broadleaf posts £7 5/*to £7 10/-, stakes 25/- to 45/-, droppers 7/6 to 12/100. Strainers, totara 6/- to 10/-, macrocarpa 3/-to 5/-each. Shelter and ornamental trees. —Good stocks are available. Shelter trees making 6/- to 6/3 a bundle of 25, ornamental trees at 6d to 2/6 each. General. —Piano £29, motor car £lO, sec-ond-hand iron 1/6 to 2/3 sheet; wheelbarrows 35/-; gate hinges 6/- pair, rock salt 7/6 cwt; casks and barrels 6/-; Record traps 26/6, Rival 24/-; nets 8/-; pegs 1/9; roofing iron, barb-wire, Nos. 8 and 10 galvanized and wire-netting at lowest market rates. Tea 2/6 lb. BRAY BROS., LTD. Messrs Bray Bros., Ltd., Spey street, report as follows for the week ending Saturday : — Fruit and Vegetables.—A full consignment of Samoan bananas is expected tomorrow (Tuesday), will be sold on arrival. A scarcity of choice dessert apples is being experienced, and any really good samples are in demand. Large cookers have a good inquiry, but small and inferior grade are difficult to dispose of. Choice, firm Neli pears are in demand at satisfactory prices. Navel and Poorman oranges and mandarines are available, but a shortage is expected before the next shipment arrives. Vegetables, with the exception of cauliflowers, are slow of sale. Prices for the week averaged as follows: —Apples, choice Delicious and Sturmers, to 10/6, Scarlet and Cleopatras 6/- to 8/-; others 5/- to 6/-; cookers, large to 6/6; pears, choice dessert to 5/- per half-case, cookers to 4/-; oranges, Navels 20/- to 24/-; Poorman to 10/-; mandarines 16/- to 22/-; lemons 27/6 to 30/-; grapes 15/- to 27/- case; walnuts, New Zealand, to lOd per lb; marrows 9/- cwt; cauliflowers 6/- to 7/- dozen; cabbage 1/6 to 2/6 dozen; parsnips to 1-jd lb; carrots 3/- bag; swedes 3/- bag; melons 14d to 2d lb; wheat (broken) 20/- sack; mutton-birds 9d per bird; honey (White Clover) 60Ibs 30/-, lOlbs 6/-, 5 lbs 3/6; bnions 5/- bag; potatoes to 7/- cwt; seed potatoes are now receiving attention and we have supplies available.

Furniture.—Showroom upstairs. Morris suite in leather, seven pieces, consisting of settee, two morris chairs, and four highbacked chairs for £l3; duchesse chest, with bevel (oval) mirror, £3 15/- to £5 10/-. China cabinets £6 12/6 and £7 5/-. Small occasional tables 12/6. A full-sized bedstead in rimu, with wire-woven mattress for £3 5/-; with mill-wool mattress, bolster and two pillows £6 5/-. We furnish three rooms for £3O/-. Inspection invited. General. —Grocery, fruit and confectionery business for sale in suburb of Invercargill, close to school. Freehold. Concrete and rough-cast house with four living rooms attached to shop. Half-acre section in cultivation, also outbuildings and garage. Good reasons for selling. Stock and plant at valuation. Bray Bros., Ltd., Spey street.

D. W. McKAY, LTD.

Messrs D. W. McKay, Ltd., Exchange Mart, Invercargill, report as follows: —

Produce. —Good demand for table potatoes, all lines coming through selling’ freely. During the week we had splendid inquiries for early seed, most varieties now available. Hay and straw have a good inquiry also wheat, oats, bran and all other lines of produce. Current prices approximately as follows:—Potatoes £5 10/- to £6 10/- ton, Canterbury onions 6/- to 7/-, pollard 11/6, bran 9/6, wheat 24/6, oatdust 6/6, oats 17/6, chaff £6 10/- ton, mutton-birds 9d to lOd.

Fruit. —Stocks of oranges have now been reduced to small compass but we have full supplies landing early this week, ex Kaiapoi. Lemons are in short supply and

prices remaining firm. Poorman oranges are in full supplies, apples are coming _ forward steadily and prices well maintained. Large cookers have an excellent demand. Choice dessert pears are selling freely, sec-ond-grade samples being difficult to dispose of. Samoan bananas, ex Maui Pomare, are due in Dunedin to-day, and will be sold in this market on Wednesday morning. Current prices approximately as follows:— Apples, first, grade, dessert to 12/-, secondgrade 4/6 to 7/-; pears to 6/- case, second grade difficult to sell, Poorman oranges 10/to 14/-, Navels to 25/-, mandarnies to arrive ex Karetu, pineapples to arrive, lemons to 35/-, cabbages 2/- to 3/6 dozen; cauliflowers 4/- to 8/6 dozen, carrots 6/to 9/- dozen, parsnips 12/- to 14/- cwt. General.—Sales for the week include second-hand G.C. iron, new iron, sashes, kauri doors, square iron tanks from £3 17/6, Cyclone netting, steel strainers, steel safes, Sidebotham rabbit traps, soup plates, gas mantles etc. Furniture.—Chesterfield * suites, blankets, duchesses, linoleum, hearth rugs, sofa squares, roll-top desks, china cabinets, Pabcolin squares, seagrass chairs, etc. Secondhad furniture in usual keen demand.

THE RIALTO. Messrs William Todd and Co., Ltd., report the following sales for market day on Saturday:— Livestock.—A total of 353 head entered and sold, the entry comprised several nice pens of pullets and young hens and these sold at good prices. Breeding cockerels and ganders are also bringing big prices. Pigs, the entry comprising several lines of wellgrown weaners and these were sold to keen competition. Stores arc selling well, suckers, poor demand. Poultry.—Hens 1/11 to 3/-; young hens 3/6 to 5/2; pullets 5/3 to 8/-; roosters 2/4 to 3/-; breeding cockerels 5/- to 13/3; ducks, keen demand 3/6 to 5/3; geese 4/9 to 6/9; ganders 6/- to 7/6. Pigs.—Weaners 6/- to 11/-. Well-grown weaners 12/- to 19/6; suckers 3/- to 5/-; small stores 19/- to 27/6; porkers 45/6. Bacon Pigs.—Supplies wanted. We are cash buyers at top market rates and receive every dav except Saturday. Produce.—Potatoes £6 10/- to £7; onions 10/- cwt; chaff £5 10/-; cow chaff 3/6 sack; hay £4 10/- to £4 15/-; straw £4; wheat 24/6; oats 14/- to 16/-; barley 20/-; crushed oats 12/-; bran 9/-; pollard 11/-; farro food 200’s 22/6; moose meal 20/-; moose nuts 17/6; oatdust 6/6; sorrell 6/6; molasses 11/6; meat meal 12/6; faterine 18/6; sucrosine 18/6; rock salt 7/6; crushed peas 24/6; fowl grit 2/6. Vegetables.—Cabbage 1/6 to-3/- dozen; carrots 8/- cwt; parsnips 12/- cwt; beetroot lid lb. Miscellaneous. —Barb-wire 25/- cwt; Nos. 8 galvanized wire 19/- cwt; rabbit netting 18/-; fowl netting 10/6, 6ft netting 21/-; Totara posts £7 10/- 100; broadleaf £6 10/-; stakes 25/-; droppers 9/- to 13/100. Timber, all sizes, 12/- to 14/- 100; tanks from £2 15/-; kauri wash-tubs £2 15/-; scalding troughs £2 5/-; riding saddles £4 10/-; draught collars 47/6; horse covers 34/- to 37/6; cow covers 16/-; muttonbirds 9d; honey, 101 b tins 6/6; Ceylon tea, 51b boxes 12/6, 401 b chests 2/3 lb. Seed potatoes.—Jersey Bennie, Epicure, Sutton’s Early Perfection, Black Kidney, White Elephant 12/-; X Keys blood and bone 11/6; garden lime 4/-. Hedge Trees. —Olearia, macrocarpa, white escalonia 25/- 100. THE SHAREMARKET. SATURDAY’S TRANSACTIONS. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, July 21. Sales on ’Change: Union Bank of Australia £l5 13/-; Tooths Brewery £3 4/6 (Sydney register); Alburnia Mining 1/6. Wellington, July 21. Sales on ’Change: English, Scottish and Australian Bank £8 9/-; Bank of New South Wales £5 12/6; Goldsbrough Mort £2 6/9; New Zealand Insurance £2 7/10J ; Staples and Co. £2 13/6. Dunedin, July 21. Sale on ’Change: New Zealand Breweries’ Ltd. 83/-, 83/3. Sales reported: Bank of New South Wales £5l 15/-; New Zealand Breweries 83/3. NEW ZEALAND TOBACCO. EXPORT GUARANTEE EXPIRES.

The erroneous impression that a Governmentexportguarantee exists upon New Zea-land-grown tobacco was referred to the other day by Mr. J. A. Campbell, of the Horticulture Division, when discussing the prospects of the establishment of a profitable tobacco-growing industry in the Dominion and the interest that is being taken in the project in Auckland as well as in other parts. Mr. Campbell said that some misconception existed regarding the export guarantee and he wanted to make the position quite clear. In 1925 the Government agreed to a limited guarantee scheme for a period of three years. That arrangement expired with the 1928 season, and consequently no such guarantee now applied.

EASTERN DISTRICT FAT STOCK,

BURNSIDE MARKET.

Vendors of district fat stock at the Burnside market on Wednesday secured the following prices:— Cattle: A. S. Holms (Waimahaka), heifers £l3 12/6, £ll 17/6, cows £l5 7/6, £l5 and £l3 17/6. R. Slater (Balfour), bullocks £27 2/6 and £l5, cows £l3 15/- and £ll 5/-. T. Golden (Waimahaka), bullocks £24 2/6, heifers £l6, £l4 12/6 and £l3, cow £l5. C. Carney (Mataura Island), bullock £lB 17/6, £l6 12/6, £l4, heifers £l3 2/6, £l2 5/-, £lO 17/6, £9 7/6, and £9 15/-, cows £l5 2/6, £l5, £l4 2/6, £ll 15/-, £9 10/- and £8 10/-. R. McFarlane (Waimahaka), bullocks £2O 7/6, £l6 12/6, £l6 10/- and £l5 5/-. Sheep: P. V. Quin (Tapanui), ewes 35/and 30/-. William McPeak (Kelso), wethers 36/-. J. Pinkerton (Kelso), _ wethers 49/- and 39/9, ewes 31/9 and 25/9. A. Ferguson (Kelso), wethers 47/3, 46/3 and 37/-. J. Black, jun. (Kelso), ewes 35/3, 34/6, 30/-, wethers 33/9. A. Stuart (Kelso), ewes 38/9, 36/9 and 36/-. T. Crossan (Kelso), ewes 35/6 and 32/9. A. Davidson and Sons (Kelso), ewes 23/-. James Stanton (Wendon), ewes 39/3, 38/9 and 35/6. A Bathgate (Crookston), ewes 37/3 and 34/-. A. S. Herbert (Kelso), ewes 35/- and 30/-. Southland Farmers’ Co-operative Association (Gore), wethers 42/6, ewes 35/6 and 33/3. R. Yardley and Sons (Moa Flat), lambs 30/9 and 29/-. G. F. Mcßae (Mokoreta), lambs 32/6, 32/3 and 29/9. LONDON WOOL SALES. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having received the following advice from their head office, London, under date of July 19: —London wool sales continue. Improved tone for better descriptions. More continental demand especially from Germany for fine Merinos. Low cross-bred prices well maintained. Faulty scoured Merino clothing 15 per cent, lower as compared with last sale’s closing rates. LONDON MARKETS. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having received the following market cable from their head office, London, under date of July 18, 1929:— Frozen Meat Market. New Zealand lamb market weaker, demand runs principally of light weights. New Zealand mutton market weak, demand poor. New Zealand prime lamb, 281 b to 361 b Canterbury 9:}d; North Island 9d; 361 b to 421 b Canterbury Bfid; North Island 8-Jd; second quality Canterbury 81d; North Island 8-Jd; 421 b to 501 b Canterbury Sd; North Island 7jjd. New Zealand mutton, 431b,t0 561 b Canterbury 7d; North Island 6?d; 651 b to 641 b

Canterbury 6Jd; North Island s?d; 641 b to 721 b Canterbury s.jd; North Island 5Jd. New Zealand prime ewes “481 b to 641 b Canterbury 4Jd; North Island 4JdArgentine chilled beef, hinds 7d; fores 4}d. English and Dutch pork, 801 b to 1201 b lOd. New Zealand porkers, 801 b to 1001 b Bd. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having received the following market cable from Messrs Samuel Page and Son, London, under date of July 18, 1929. Dairy Produce Market. Butter. —Market quiet. Danish 174/- to 176/-; New Zealand finest salted ~170/- to 174/-; Australian finest unsalted 164/- to 168/-; Australian finest salted 162/- to 168/-; Australian g.a.q. 156/- to 160/-. Cheese. —Market quiet. New Zealand white 90/- to 91/-; New Zealand coloured 93/- to 94/-; Canadian white 89/- to 90/-; Canadian coloured 91/- to 92/-; Canadian c.i.f. 88/- to 90/-. Top prices exceptional.