COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16302, 30 November 1918, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

BANK OF .NEW SOUTH WALES. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright SYDNEY, Nov. 29. The Bank of Now South Wales halfyearly profit amounted to £2/3,560. A dividend of 10 per cent, is declared.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ARGENTINE BUTTER/ PURCHASED. LONDON, Nov. 27. It is understood that the. Government is purchasing the Argentine’s output of butter for two seasons at 170 s f.o.b.—Aus.-N.Z. Gable Assn. LOAN AND MERCANTILE. AUCKLAND, Nov. 28. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report:— At Westfield on Wednesday, which is the only sale w© have been permitted to hold under instructions from the health officer, we had scarcely an average yarding of beef, with no extra heavy weights yarded. Competition was good and last week’s rates ruled, choice ox selling to £2 13s .per 1001 b., other £2 7s to £2 11s; cow and heifer beef, £2 6s .to £2 12s; steers sold at from £l4 10s to £22 7s 6d; cows from £8 12s 6d to £l6 15s for a cow fattened by Mr. Edward Allen, Cambridge; heifers, £8 15s to £l3 17s 6d. Calves improved on last week’s figures. Runners sold from £5 17s 6d to £7 2s 6d; heavy vealers, £4 10s to £5 15s; medium, £3 10s to £4 6s; light, £2 to £3 ss; small and' fresh-dropped, 8s to £1 10s. Best heavy prime woolly wethers, £2 4s to £2 7s; lighter woolly, £1 17s 9d to £2 3s; best heavy shorn wethers, £1 16s to £1 18s 6d; medium to heavy prime, £1 14s 6d to £1 15s 9d; others, £1 12s to £1 14s 3d; unfinished, £1 7s to £1 11s 6d; medium to heavy shorn ewes, £1 8s to £1 10s; others, £1 5s to £1 7s 6d; unfinished, £1 3s to £1 4s 9d; good wolly hoggets, £1 16s to £1 17 s. Lambs were entered in full numbers, and sold' well up to last week’s prices, best heavy selling from £1 6s to £1 9s; good fat lambs, £1 3s to £1 5s 6d; others, 16s to £1 2s 6d. Kgs cam© forward in increased numbers and improved on, last week’s prices. Choppers and heavy baconers, £5 10s to £7; large porkers, £3 10s to £s' ss; medium, £2 10s to,£3 7s 6d; small, £2 to £2 7s 6d; weaners, £1 to £1 10s.