COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1927, Page 11

COMMERCIAL.

WESTFIELD MARKETS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. At the Westfield sale there was an average yarding of beef, prices being very firm at last week’s rates. A line of extra choice light-weight heifers, on account of G. Alley, Katikati, averaged £6 2s 6d. Extra choice ox sold” to 27s per 1001 b; choice and prime ov, 24s to 265; “just killable” ox, 21s to 235; prime young cow and heifer beef, 235; “just killable,” 20s to 225. Sheep.—An average yarding, there being little or no change in values. Extra heavy prime wethers (shorn), made £1 6s 9d; heavy prime wethers, £1 4s 6d to £1 5s 9d; medium wethers, £'l 3s to £1 4s; light and unfinished wethers, £1 to £1 2s fid; heavy prime ewes, 17s 6d to 19s 3d; lighter, 14s to 16s fid; other ewes, 9s to 12s fid. Lambs.—A normal yarding, selling at late rates. Heavy prime lambs made £1 3s to £1 4s 6d; medium prime lambs, £1 0s Cd to £1 2s Cd; light prime lambs, £1 Is to £1 2s. Calves. —A good yarding. Good quality calves sold under good competition, but inferior were not wanted. Runners made £2 3s to £2 13s; heavy vealers, £3 5s to £3 12s* medium vealers, £1 10s to £2 4s; light vealers, £2 4s to £2 9s; rough vealers, 9s to 12s; fresh dropped, 4s to I'fis. Pigs.—A small yarding, values being unchanged. Choppers made £3 to £4 4s; heavy baconers, £3 8s to £3 13s; medium, £3 to £3 4s;; heavy porkers, £2 14s to £3; medium porkers, £2 Ils to £2 13s; light porkers, £2 3s to £2 10s. THE SHARE MARKETS. Wellington, April 0. Sales reported yesterday t New Zealand Breweries Bonds, £1 4s 3d; Bank of Australasia, £l4 8s; Bank of New Zealand, £3. Sale reported at the 10 a.m. call today: Bank of New South Wales, £49 19s. Call to-day (12.15 p.m.).—Reported Sale on ’Change: New Zealand 4J per cent. Inscribed Stock, £96 7s fid. sales: 4J per cent. New Zealand Government Bonds (1941), to £96 7s fid; Wellington Gas (ordinary), 27s 3d; Wilson’s Cement, 35s 9d. Christchurch, April 6. Reported sale: Australian Bank of Commerce, 35s 9d. Sales on ’Change: Bank of New South Wales, £5O; National Bank of Australasia ( £-10 paid), rights, 675. Wellington, Last Night. Share market sales reported: 4J per cent. Bonds (1941), £96 7s 6d; Bank of New South Wales, £49 19s; Wellington Gas, ordinary, 27s 3d; Wilson’s Cement, 35s 9d. Sales on ’Change: 4 J per cent. Stock (1938), £96 7s Cd. Auckland, Last Night. Share market sales: Soldiers’ Inscribed (1933), 5} per cent., £lOl ss; Bank of New South Wales, £49 17s 6d, £5O; Auckland Gas, 23s Id; Tonson Garlick, 15s, 14s 9d; Kawarau, 3s, 2s lid; Mount Lyell, 28s Bd. Invercargill, Last Night. Sales reported: Soldier Settlement Loan Bonds, £101; Invercargill Borough Debentures, 5| per cent. (1934), £97. CHICAGO WHEAT MARKET. By Telegraph —Press Assn.— -Copyright. New York, April 5. Chicago wheat quotations are: May 134} cents, July 1291 cents, September 127 j cents per bushel.