COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8213, 17 August 1906, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT,

(Special to the Wairarapa Age)

The lNew Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Distributing Company, Ltd., Wellington, report as follows: —Maize, 4s. 6d per bushel; wheat, 3s lOd to 3s lid; oa»s, prime feed '2s lid to 3s, discoloured 2s 6d; barley, feed 3s 3d, Cape seed 3s 6d; linseed, whole £ls per ton; rice, meal £5 per ton; pollard £o' 5s to £6 10s per ton; bran £4 10s to £5 per ton; cocksfoot, to ddperlb; prime oaten sheaf chaff, £4 10s to £4 15s per ton; potatoes, prime Australians £lllos, locals £l2 10s to £l3; seed potatoes, Up-to-Dates £l6, Australian Kidneyß £l4, Derwents £11; Early Rose £l4, American Champion £l4; onions, £9 to £lO per ton; butter, separator Is, dairy pats Is; eggs, fresh Is; honey 5(1 per lb; bacon, sides 6}£d to 7d, rolls 7}£d, hams 6%d to 7d; dressed pork, 60's to 90 s sd, 90's to 100's sd; apples, dessert 10s to 12s 6d, •oookeis 9s 6d; cabbage. 7s 6d; cauliflowers, 6a per sack; carrots, table £2 lOds, horse £2 ss; swedes, £1 15a to £2 per ton; poultry, table roosters 5s 6d, cockerels ss-to 7s for good birds, table hens 4s 6d to se, duok» 6b 6d (all at per pair), turkeys, gobblers 9d, hens 8d (live weight); dreseed poultry, roosters '7d, hens 6d; turkeys, cobblers lOd, hens Bd.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report aa follows:-—At the ordinary sale in the Waipona yards, on Wednesday, the yarding of both sheep •and oattle was small, several entries not coming to hand owing to the rough weather. Id sheep , with the exception of one small line of ewes, •everything was quitted at prices that met with owners' approval. Good •quality was represented in toe oattle penned, but several lines failed to reach vendors' reserves. Hoggets brought from 13s 6d to 15s 66, ewes lis io 16s 9d, cows £1 2s 6d, steers £5 ss. A clearing sale of Mr Arthur Johnstone's dairy herd was held, yesterday, .at Mangaraahoe, and despite i the poor attendance a good clearance • was effected at batisfaotory figures. A few only of the highest grade cows, however, failed to realise the vendors' idea of valne. Range of prices—cows £2 Ids to £i 14s, steers ■£& 2s, sow £4.