LATE COMMERCIAL.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 851, 26 August 1933, Page 11

LATE COMMERCIAL.

AUCKLAND BUSINESS. (Special to the “Star.”) AUCKLAND, August 26. At this morning’s call bidding on the whole was steady. but there was an easier tone in the banking section, several lines being neglected by buyers. Tooth’s Breweries were again offered at 38s, bringing a buyer at 355. Buyers for Refrigerating advanced their limits to 15s 9d, but there were no sellers. The mining section continued to he active, and fresh business was done in Waihis at 255. Buyers for King Solomons moved up to 2s. There was a steady demand for Government stocks. OTHER EXCHANGES. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, August 26. Sales—Mat.aki Gold, Is 6d; Woolworth’s (Sydney 2nd pref.), 25s 6d; Union Bank, £9 3s; Waihi, 255. WELLINGTON. August 26. Reported Sales—Bank, of Australasia, £ll 16s 6d; Gear Meat, 30s 9d. DUNEDIN, August 26. Sale Reported—New Zealand Drug, 66s 9d. Sale After Call—Southland Frozen Meat (contr.), 25s 9d. OPOSSUM SKIN SALES. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Dunedin, advise that at the opossum skin sales 37,000 skins were offered. The firm’s catulogue was 24,300 skins. There was a good demand. Compared with the July sale, good to super skins were 6d to Is lower. Secondary grades were firm. Quotations: —Blacks 4s 6d to 13s, browns 3s 7d to Ss, reds 3s to 7s 7d, greys 4s 6d to 10s, blues 5s 3d to 34s 2d, inferior pelts Is lOd to 3s 6d, smalls Is 6d to 4s 6d. LONDON PRODUCE MARKETS. The Bank of New Zealand has received the following advice from its London office as at the close of business this week:— Frozen meat—Smaller supplies of wether mutton have caused prices to harden. The market for ewes is firm with an upward tendency. There is a moderate demand for lambs, and prices are firm. Quotations are:—Wethers, light 4d to ssd per lb, heaw 3Jd to 3£dewes, 2|d to 3sd; lambs, 2’s 7d to 7ld,’ to*7d° 4 S t 0 seconds CITY MARKET SALES. 11. C. Smith, The City Market, reports the following sales privately and at auction last Friday: Bay gelding, £3 las; bay mare, £4; aged gelding, £2, br. mare, £l3, bay gelding, £22 10s; bay mare, £4; riding pad. £1; set blocks, £2 10s; trap, £0; garden roller, £1 2s 6d; set chain harrows, £8; cream cooler, £:j as; spring dray, £9; grass seed-box, £7; set discs, £ls; potato digger, £5; spring dray, £S: _ Planet hoe, £1 15s; Planet hoe, £1 Ids ; Planet spares, £1 17s bd; Planet hoe, £2 3 0s; small cultivator, £2 ss; Cooper and Duncan drill, £9; two milk cans, £1 10s; lawnmower, £1 ss;. lawnmower, £1 2s 6d; range, £7 ss; set washtubs, £1 15s; copper, £1 15s; bicj'cle, £2 17s 6d, bicycle, £2 7s 6d. bicycle £1 ss, bicycle £2 ss; two tanks, £6 10s; bicycles, £3 6s, £1 ss, £3 10s, £1 10s; windmill, £3: range, £1 2s 6d; copper, £2 3 9s; door. £1; copper, £1 ss; range, £1 ss; cai* battery, £2; lawnmower, £4s; lawnmower £2 15s, gate 3 ss, panelling, £1 2s 6d; bicycles. £2, £1 12s 6d, £2 15s; set hopples, £1; car cover, £2 2s 6d; A.L. separator, £4; leather machine, £2; sideboard, £2; settee, £2; mattress, £1; settee, £1 15s; sewing machine. £10; carpet, £2; lino, £1 7s 6d: cupboard, £4; cash register, £7 10s; couch, £1 2s 6d, 2 chairs, £1 10s; chair, £1 ss; bed and wire, £1 10s; chair, 37s 6d; wardrobe, £4 12s 6d: runner, £1; carpet, £1 ss; wardrobe. £1: wardrobe, £3 10s; couch, £1; wardrobe, £1; carpet, £1 10s; duches.se, £1 2s 6d; timber, £47 3s 6d; iron, £3B Is Id; 70 sacks wheat, 10s to 14s; 37 sacks oats, 5s to 9s; 46 sacks table potatoes, 7s to 9s; chaff, 2s to 3s sack. Poultry—There was a good yarding in this department, and a furthter hardening in prices: Hens, 4s 6d to 7s 6d; cockerels, 3s lOd to 9s; roosters, 4s 6d to 6s 6d; ducks, 4s 9d to ss; pullets, 4s 6d to 3 0s: breeding cockerels, 11s to 16s 6d, all at per pair; cage birds, 2s to 10s; cages, 2s 6d to 6s 6d; aviaries. 12s 6d to 17s 6d.