THE TRAINS

Southland Times, Issue 21851, 31 October 1932, Page 2

THE TRAINS

Arrivals at Invercargill. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays: Dunedin-Invercargill Mail 1.10 P' n ?- Tuesdays and Thursdays:—Christ-church-Invercargill Express 9.5 P-®' Saturdays: — Dunedin - Invercargill Mail 1.10 p.m.; Christchurch-Invercar-gill Express 9.5 p.m. Departures from Invercargill. Sundays: Invercargill-Christchurch Express 6.40 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays: Invercargill-Christchurch Express 7.0 a.m. , Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays: Invercargill-Dunedin Mail 1.45 pan.

Christchurch, October 30. Sales on ’Change: Commercial Bank of Australia 14/7; Bank of New Zealand 45/3, 45/-; Union Bank of Australia £7 15/-; New Zealand Breweries 26/9; Dunlop Rubber 15/8; Mt. Lyell 20/6; Cornish Point 3Jd; Mahakipawa (pref.) 74d; Waihi (cum. div.) 18/-, 18/1. Sales Reported: N.Z. Government 4| per cent. Bonds, 1938, £97; Wilson’s Cement 31/6; Bank of New Zealand 45/-.

BRAY BROS., LTD. Messrs Bray Bros., Ltd. report auction prices as follows:—Apples, dessert 8/- to 10/-; cooking 5/- to 7/-; lemons 12/- to 15/-; oranges, to arrive; pears 8/- to 9/- dump case; rhubarb 1/9 to 2/- dozen; asparagus 5/- to 7/- dozen; beetroot 8/- cwt; cabbage 3/- to 3/6 sack; cauliflowers 6/- to 11/- sack; tomatoes 1/5 to 1/10 lb; cucumbers 9/to 11/- dozen; carrots 3/3 bag; lettuce 3/- dozen; parsnips Id lb; potatoes, table 5/- to 7/6; seed potatoes 6/- to 8/- cwt; honey, 51b 3/-; mutton birds sd; walnuts 9d lb. Furniture.—Showroom upstairs. Bedsteads and bedding at greatly reduced prices. Two rooms completely furnished for £l9 10/-. Three rooms completely furnished for £29 10/-. Every article guaranteed first quality. Inspection invited. Property.—Four-roomed house and i-acre freehold available at Riverton Rocks. Price for quick sale £3OO.

D. W. McKAY, LTD. Messrs D. W. McKay, Ltd., Exchange Mart, Invercargill, report as follows:— Fruit: The market is practically bare of oranges; fresh supplies are due by the Waikouaiti this week, and the Wainui early the following week. Bananas are also scarce, and the next shipment due here on Wednesday will meet with a good demand. Supplies of apples are nearly finished, and any good lines are bringing high prices. Vegetables were scarce through the week, and prices are higher. Hothouse tomatoes are now in fairly steady supply. Current prices:—Oranges 15/- to 19/-; Lemons, N.Z. 15/- to 18/-; Sturrners 7/6 to 10/-; Coloured Desserts to 11/-; Lord Wolseley’s 8/- to 9/6; Cauliflowers to 8/- doz.; Cabbage to 3/6 doz.; Lettuce to 4/- doz.; Spring Onions to 1/6 doz.; Cucumbers (hothouse) to 8/doz. Produce: Table potatoes £5 to £6 per ton, seed potatoes small stocks, lower prices than last week; potato manure 10/6; wheat 17/6; oats 10/6; carrots to 3/- sugar bag; parsnips to 3/-; bran and pollard current rates; straw 2/6 bale; hay 2/6 bale. General: Tea: 7/6 to 15/- per 51b box; honey 3/6 tin; good stocks doors, sashes, lawnmowers, garden tools, furniture, linoleum. Second-hand furniture has a good demand, and we invite consignments. F. BOWDEN AND CO. Messrs F. Bowden and Co. report a big change in the vegetable market. A week ago supplies were that heavy that they could hardly be given away and to-day lettuce and cauliflowers are commanding high prices. All fruits ana produce in season are in full supply. A shipment of Samoan Bananas are due for Tuesday’s or Wednesday’s sale. The week closed with prices puling: Pears 4/6 box; tomatoes, hothouse 1/7 to 1/9, Island 4d to 7d lb; grapes 30/- to 35/keg; oranges 10/- to 18/-; apples 5/6 to 9/-; lemons 11/- to 16/-; bananas 16/- to 21/6 case. Vegetables, Produce, Etc.—Cabbage plants 3/-; cabbage 2/- to 2/9; lettuce 2/- to 3/-; spring onions 1/6 to 2/-; cauliflowers 3/- to 7/6; leeks 1/2 dozen; carrots Id; parsnips 11 d; rhubarb IJd to 2d lb; honey 2/9; mutton birds 41d; seed potatoes 3/- to 7/- cwt for certified; oats 8/- to 12/-; wheat 17/6 to 18/-; pollard 8/6; bran 7/6; crushed oats 8/-; garden manure 1/6; black barley 20/— bag; table potatoes £4 10/— to £5 10/-; chaff £4 to £4 10/-; straw £3 ton. Pigs.—Weaners 10/- to 13/-; small stores 22/6 to 23/6. We are cash buyers of bacon pigs at full market rates, rail paid to Invercargill. Dairy Cows.—Three heifers and cow £22, 3 at £B, £7 10/-, 6 at £7, 2 at £6 10/-. heifer £5 10/-. We have a fair number for sale. Horses. —£20 10/-, £l3 5/-, £lO, £B, £7 5/-; milk cart £lO. Timber and Posts.—Heavy stocks on hand, going cheap. Sawn 12/-, dressed 22/6; totara posts £5 to £6 10/-; broadleaf £4 10/- to £5 10/-; stakes 30/- to 45/-: droppers 12/-; strainers 5/- to 8/- each. Meat.—Lamb, sides 3/6, forequarters 1/9 to 1/11, hindquarters 2/- to 2/1; mutton, loins and shoulders ljd to 2d; legs 3d lb. General.—Drums 3/6; gentleman’s bicycle £3 12/6; range £4 5/-; barrels 5/-; heavy gate hinges 6/- to 8/-; new lawnmowers 55/- to 65/-; English hardware, roofing iron 5d ft; fencing wire, barb 25/-, No. 8 galvanized 17/6, No. 9 18/6, No. 10 19/6 cwt; rabbit netting 17/6; fowl netting, 3ft 9/6, 6ft 19/-; Cyclone and sheep netting at lowest market rates. THE RIALTO. Messrs William Todd & Co. Ltd. report the following sales for week ending Saturday, October 29: Pigs: Keen demand 186 entered and sold. Small weaners 13/- to 15/6; weaners 16/- to 18/6, 24/- to 30/6; sow £2 4/-. Poultry: Fair demand. W.L. hens 1/6 to 2/4; roosters 2/- to 2/6; minorcas 3/7; ducks 2/7; geese 2/8; hens and chicks 8/- to 10/6.Bacon Pigs: We are cash buyers of bacon weights 120 to 1501bs at 4d lb freight paid. Horses: Draught gelding £23. Dairy Cows: Good demand. 3 at £8; 1 at £7 10/-; heifers 6 at £6. Set discs, £7 10/-.

Produce: Table potatoes £4 10/- to £5, inferior quality no demand. Onions (Canadian) 30/- bag; chaff £4 5/-; straw £3 5/-; hay £4 10/-; wheat 17/to 18/6; barley 14/- to 17/6; barley pollard 11/-; pollard 8/6; bran 7/-; Farra food 7/6; sorrell 5/-; moose meal 16/-; moose nuts 15/-; meat meal 11/-; liver meal 11/-; molasses 13/6; drum rock salt 7/6; oyster shell grit 6/-; crushed oats 10/-, oats 10/- to 12/6; super 6/6; X-keys bone and blood 8/-; burnt lime 5/-; carbonate lime 2/6; K.P, turnip manure 9/-. Miscellaneous: Barb wire 25/- cwt; No. 8 galvanized 18/-; fowl netting 9/6; rabbit netting 16/6; plunge baths 60/-; kauri washtubs 50/-; portable boilers

72/6; sashes 10/-; wheelbarrows 25/-; petrol drums 5/-; T. and G. doors 14/-; tanks 47/6; timber 12/- to 14/- 100; dressed timber 24/- to 26/-; stakes 25/-; droppers 12/-; totara posts £6 10/- 100; honey 21b jars 1/3; 101 b tins 6/-; Ceylon tea 51b 7/6 to 12/6; 401 b chests 2/3 lb. Grass seeds: Good demand. White clover lOd; cowgrass 1/2 to 1/5; dogstail 6d; Timothy 9d to 1/6; Akaroa cocksfoot lOd to 1/-; Alsike 1/-; perennial machine dressed 4/6 to 6/- bushel. Special line perennial 12/6 to 21/- sack mixture 3|d lb. HORSE FAIR. SALE AT GORE. The National Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd. held its monthly horse sale at Gore on Saturday. There was a very large attendance of district farmers, but the entry which was somewhat smaller than at recent sales, did not include many good young farm horses. With the seasonal work on farms much further advanced than usual at this time of the year, there was a slackening in the demand for farm horses, and a fair proportion of the offering was passed in. Sales were:—Bay gelding, 5 years, £3O; do. 4 years, £3O; aged gelding £9 10/-; aged mare £7; aged gelding £10; bay mare, 8 years, £25 10/-; hacks £3, £8 and £l2 10/-. DAIRY PRODUCE. Messrs A. S. Paterson & Co. Limited are in receipt of the following cable advice from their principals, Messrs J. and J. Lonsdale & Co. (London) Limited: — Butter: Market demoralized—no demand owing to general unsettled state of trade together with low Australian c.i.f. etc. Offers: Danish, 101/- f.0.b.; N.Z. 96/-, 105/-; Australian 94/- 96/-. Cheese: Market firm on small stocks. White cheese 67/-; coloured cheese 60/-. The South Island Dairy Association of New Zealand, Ltd. has received the following market report from the New Zealand Produce Association, Ltd, London: Butter: Steady. Finest 106/-; firsts 97/-; Danish 120/-. Cheese: Firm. White 66/- to 67/-; Coloured 59/- to 60/-. Messrs A. H. Turnbull & Co. Ltd. are in receipt of a cable from their principals, Messrs W. Weddel and Co. Ltd., dated London, 26th Inst., reading: Danish Butter: 116/- to 118/- per cwt; New Zealand Salted 98/- to 108/- per cwt; Kangaroo 94/- to 98/- per cwt. Butter market weak.’ New Zealand Cheese (white): 64/to 65/- per cwt; (coloured) 59/- to 60/-. Cheese market steady. FROZEN MEAT QUOTATIONS. (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) London, October 29. Frozen meat quotations:— N.Z. Sheep: North Island crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, 481 b to 561 b, 3d; ditto 571 b to 641 b 27-8 d; ditto ewes, 481 b to 651 b 1 7-8 d; ditto 651 b to 721 b, IJd. Australian sheep: First quality crossbred and/or merino wethers 401 b to 651 b, 23-8 d; ditto, ewes, 301 b to 551 b, 2 3-Bd. New Zealand Lambs: Canterbury 36 lb and under, s£d; ditto, second quality average 301 b, 3 7-8 d; ditto other South Island brands 361 b and under, sd; ditto 371 b to 421 b, 4|d; ditto, selected North Island ’ brands, including Downs, 371 b to 421 b, 4|d; ditto, second quality average 301 b 3 7-Bd. Other North Island brands first quality, 371 b to 421 b, 4 l-8d; ditto second quality, average 301 b, 3 7-Bd. Australian Lambs: Victorian, first quality 371 b to 421 b, 4 l-8d; ditto other States second quality 361 b and under, Argentine lambs’ first quality 361 b and under, 4|d; ditto 371 b to 421 b, 4|d; ditto 431 b to 501 b, 4 l-Bd. Australian frozen beef: Ox crops under 1001 b, 2d; ditto ox hinds under 1601bs 2 7-Bd. Argentine chilled beef: Ox hinds 160 lb to 2201 b 4}d. New Zealand Pigs: First quality 601 b to 1101 b (average 901bs) sd; ditto, 1111 b to 1201 b, 4 7-Bd. Australian pigs: First quality 601 b to 1101 b (average 901 b) sd; ditto 1111 b to 1201 b, 4 5-8 d; others unchanged. Rabbits: First larger ex store 14/6.

T. AND G. MUTUAL LIFE SOCIETY. The directors of the Australasian Temperance and General Mutual Life Assurance Society, Limited, announce that for the financial year ended September 30, 1932, the new business completed in the ordinary department comprised 22,188 policies assuring £5,181,522 and £587 10/- per annum of annuities, and in the Industrial Department 127,755 policies assuring £5,437,585. In both departments 149,943 policies were issued assuring £10,619,107. In the Accident Department 2882 personal accident and sickness policies assuring £1,386,750 were issued during the year and in addition 4328 policies in the Ordinary Department were endorsed with accident benefits assuring £901,804.