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Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1924, Page 2

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AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. GOOD SUGAR CROP. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, Sept. 25. Oats. —Tasmanian. Algerian 4g 3d to 4s sd; White Giants 4s 6d to 4s 9d. Maize.—Yellow, 3s 9d to 3s lOd; white, 4s 2d. Potatoes.—£4 to £6. Onions.—£22. Adelaide, Sept. 25. Oats.—3s 2d to 3s 3d. Melbourne, Sept. t 26. Owing to yesterday being show day there are no grain markets to report. Present indications point to thp current season’s sugar crop reaching 390,000 tons. The surplus available will he at least 80,000 tons. Arrangements have been made to export 45,000 tons, but there is a difficulty as to how to dispose of the remainder.

CONTROL OF FRUIT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Nelson, Last Night. I One of the largest and most representative ! gatherings of fruit-growers ever held at Stoke ‘ took place last evening. Mr. Allan and Colonel ! Gray, of the Fruit Control Board, addressed | th<- meeting. It was unanimously resolved that ! a clause be Inserted in the Fruit Control Bill J ensuring a right to dispose of his . fruit by private treaty, provided such sales are made at a price not lower than those | fixed by the board, the board to bo notified 1 the place and quantity to be shipped. It was • resolved by 27 votes to 14 that, falling the Insertion of the clause In question, that the meeting approves of the Control Bill and is prepared to accept it as it stands. The feeling of the meeting was unanimously in favour of control, provided provision was made for the disposal of fruit by private treaty, but not below the Control Board prices. Colonel Gray said this was quite in keeping with the control policy. AUCKLAND SHARE MARKET. Auckland, Last Night. Stock Exchange sales.—Soldiers Inscribed Stock, £lOl 10s: Farmers’ Co-op. Auctioneering (B preference) 16s 3d: Paper Mills, 225; New Waiotahl (contrlb.), is. DAIRY PRODUCE The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. have received the following cablegram from their London house under date 24th Instant:— Butter.—-Owing to shortage best nutter, market firm with upward tendency: 218 s to

220 s per cwt. Cheese.—92s to 94s per cwt. Market steady. STOCK MARKET. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd. (Hawera branch) report:— At Eltham, oh the 24th instant, we had a good yarding. There was a good attendance of buyers and a satisfactory sale resulted. We quote: Fnt cows to £7 7s 6d, stores and boners at late rates. Fat ewes 30s 6d to 37s 9d, good spring heifers £lO to £l5 ss, medium ditto £5 to £9 15s, good and medium sorts £4 to £7 10s, medium dairy cows £6 to £9 10s. Old and inferior sorts £3 to £5 10s.

On the 25th instant we held our usual fortnightly Hawera saie. To a big attendance of buyers we again offered a good yarding, particularly of dairy cattle. Bidding was fairly brisk throughout, and we report, a total clearance at prices well on a par with recent sales. We quote: Fat cows (good) to £B, light ditto £5 15s to £6 10s, forward cows £3 5s to £5, stores and honers £1 to £2 9s, fair conditioned bullocks £7 10s, Holstein yearling heifers £3 2s Gd, Jersey cross two-year empty heifers £3 4s to £3 13s, hoggets (small) 22s 3d, culls 15s, store pigs 32s to 345, good conditioned ditto £2 Ils, small 20s to 275. good quality springing heifers (close up) £9 10s to £l3, medium ditto £5 JOs to £8 15s, calved heifers £3 to £B, cows (old and inferior) £4 to £7 15s. ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET. Christchurch. Sept. 24. At the Addington market to-day the entries were smaller in the fat cattle section, due to the recent decline in prices, and the decreasing North Island consignments. The market recovered as a result to the extent of about 2s Gd per 1001 b. Fat sheep were In normal supply. A good-sized line came from the Marlborough province, and an improvement was recorded also in this section. The store sheep were of poor quality, the entry being mainly ewes with lambs. The uncertain break in the weather did not stimulate the demand, except, for good sheep, the market for which was a trifle better. The sale was dragging, and in cases easier. Good halfbred ewe hoggets made 465; small halfbred ewe hoggets, 345; crossbred ewe hdggots, 34s sd; good halfbred wether hoggets, 29s .Id; good crossbred wether c.oggets, 28s Gd. Small two and fotir-toothed halfbrcd wethers, 29s IkL Aged coarse-woolled ewes and lambs, 18s to 21s (all counted) ; aged halfbred ewes land lambs, 21s Ils; sound and falling-' mouthed crossbred ewes and iambs, 21s. 3d;’ i sound-mouthed crossbred ewes and lambs, 245.

Spring Lamb.—l3o were penned, and prices Icame down from the’ recent fancy level, lvalues were generally from 28a to 32s 6d; odd lambs making up to 38s.

Fat Sheep.— <A. similar-sized yardlnlg to last week, nine races. The markat opened firmly, and Improved, but fell away over the final stages. Values all round were about 2s per head better. Extra prime wethers made 58s to 635; a special! pen, 78s; . prime weithers, 51s to 565; medium, 47s to 50s 6d; light, 41s to 465: inferior, 38s ,pd to 40s. Extra prime ewes, to 555; prime, 46s to 50s; medium, 41s to 455; light, 37s to 40s; aged, 30s to 365. Fat Cattle.—The smallest yarding for some, time, comprising 360 head. The North Island entries were small. The market recovered to th.e . extent of about 25,t a head, concluding firmly. Specially good beef realised to 46s per 1001 b; prime, 40s to 445; medium, 36s 83 to 39s Gd; light, 32s Gd to 36s Id; and rough down to 255. Extra prime heavy-weight steers made £lB 10s to £2O 12s 6d; mediumweight steers, £l6 to £18; medium, £ll6 to £l5 15s; light, £lO 10s to EH 10s; roufch, £lB to £lO. Extra prime heifers, £l3 ss:. prime, £lO to £'l ! 2 10s; ordinary, £7 158 to £9 13s. Extra prime cows, £l2 to £l2 12s 6d; prime, £9 5s to £(1'1 10s; medium, £7 to £9.

Vealers.—Art average entry of very mixe4 quality. Good calves sold in advanc.e of late rates, but there was no change in oth,er classes. Runners made £6 10s, goal vealers £•4 to £5 ss, good calves £2 5s to £8 ISs, small 12s 6d to 355.

Store Cattle.—A yarding pf 210 head, compared with 312 last week. Only ..cows an(J heifers showing some quality were sought after. Best cows and heifers realised £2 5s to £4 ss, medium £1 5s to £1 15s, inferior 15s to 20s, bulls £3 to £6. Dairy Cattlo.—BB head came forward, compared with 122 last week. Good cattle met a fair demand. Best second, third and fourth calvers, springing, realised £5 to £9 10«, medium £2 to £4 10s, best springing heifers £3 to £5 ss, medium £1 19s to £2 15s, old cows 15s to £1 ss. Fat Pigs.—A small entry and a good demand. Choppers made £3 10s to £6 10s, light baConers £4 Is to £5 Ifls, heavy £5 15s to £5 10s (average price per lb 9d to 9%d), light porkers £2 10s jo £2 17s 6d, heavy £3 5s to £3 15s (average price per N> 9%d to 10%d). Store Pigs.—A fairly large entry. Prices for all classes were In advance of late rates. Weeners made 25s to 325, extra good 36a, small stores 34s to 40s, medium 42» to 48a, large 32s to 60a, sows in pig, £4 10s to £6.

BURNBIDE STOCK MARKET. Dunedin, Sept. ,24. There were good’ sales In all departments at Burnside to-day. Sheep sold well, fat animals. The sale opened well, good stores Cattle and pigs were also much firmer. Fat Cattle.—A yarding of 164 head, compared with 271 last week. The entry was of good quality, very similar to that of lajft week, but there were a good many unfinished animals. The sale opened well, good store advancing from 10s to 30s per head. Prime bullocks sold at from 45s to 47s ’per 1001 b, prime heavy-weights from 42s 6d to 455, prime heifers and medium quality bullocks 40s to 425, prime cows and light heifers 32s 6d to 35s fid, light and aged cows 24s Gd to 26s fid. Extra prime bullocks sold at up to £22 10s, prime £'ls 10s to £lljB, lighter from £l3 10s. Extra prime heifers brought to £lO ss, medium £7 to £8 ss. Extra prime cows sold at up to £l2 ss, and Igihter sorts from £5 10s to £6 15s.

Fat Shee’i —<An entry of 1892 head of good average quality, compared with 1740 at the last sale. There were few ewes. Competition was fairly keen and improved as the sale progressed, but was somewhat irregular. 'Prices were about on a par with last week’s rates and In places about is per head better. Freezing operators were paying up to B%d per lb, and in some cases as high as 9d for restricted weights. Prime handy-weight butchers’ wethers sold at from 7Ud to 7%d, prime heavy-weight wethers up to 7 %d, medium quality and light-Weights Gl4d to extra heavy ewes (very prime quality) Gd to o%d, prime ewes to 6d, light and aged ewes to 5%d. Ten spring lambs of good quality were sent forward and sold well. Medium quality sold at 37s fid, and good at from 44s to 52s 6d per head. The price per pound ranged from Is 2d to Is 4d. Extra prime wethers brought to 63a, prime heavy 46* to 50s, prime 42s fid to 43a fid. Extra prime ewes sold at up to 58s, good :46s to 3&s, lighter to 335. Store Cattle —Approximately 200 of all classes were yarded, compared with 300 last week. The prices showed some improvement on those of the last sale. Graziers’ cows were dearer by about 10s per head. Some medium two-and-a-half-year steers brought from £4 5a to £4 15s, and a pen ot mixed one-and-a-half-year animals brought £1 19b. Pigs.—A bigger entry, 130 fats and a good nunriwr of stores. AM classes sold well and prices rose about 5s per head, bringing them to the rate of a fortnight ago. Best baconers realised £4 5s to £6 Bs, medium baconers £4 5s to £5, best porkers £2 15a to £3 18s, lighter porkers £2 5s to £2 12s fid. Choppers sold well and a very heavy animal 'brought £8 6s. Baconers sold on a bails of from 8d to per li), and porkers 9d to 9 1 4 d, which are the highest prices ruling at Burnside for many months past.

PIGS AND POULTRY At the Raymarket sale of Messrs. Newton King yesterday there was a full yarding of pigs and a keen demand resulted In a full clearance at prices mostly on a par with preIvlous sales. Several pens of porkers were offered and realised prices equal approximately to 7d per lb. This Is a good market for (porkers and it would be In the interests of owners and sellers of same to send In drafts regularly ftr sale. Quotations: Weaners. 16s to l’Bs fid: slips, 21s to 27s fid; small stores, 29s to 33s fid: sow with small litter, £3 4s; porkers, £2 13s fid. A large quantity of timber, iron, posts, farm tool* and sundries nil sold at satisfactory prices. At the City Market hens sold at 4s fid. Messrs. Nolan and Co. report that hens went out at. from 2s fid to 4s 8d; cockerels 3s to 5s 2d; ducks 2s lid to 3s 9d.