FINANCE & COMMERCE

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 17 May 1922, Page 2

FINANCE & COMMERCE

WAI HAO FORKS SALE. (By Our Special Reporter)? At Waihao Forks sale yesterday there was a fair yarding of fats and a rather small yarding of stores, both lines meeting with a ready market. The lambs realised 7Jd and 7|d per lb, The following will give an indication of prices:— 17 fat lambs 21s 7d, 38 at 22g 7d, 11 at 255, 18 at 225, 32 at 21s 9d, 13 at 255, 117 at 22s 7d, 6 at 225, 68 at 265, 33 at 265, 28 at 22s Id, 65 at 25s 6d, 58 at 24s Id, 56 at 21s, 296 at 25s 9d, 106 at 22s Id, 124 at 18s 7d, 27 fat wethers 20s Id, 14 at 20s sd, 20 at 23s 9d, 2 at 245. 25 fat ewes 14s 6d, 48 at 12s 2d, 16 at 15g Id, 16 at 15s Bd, 8 at l'2s 9d, 68 at 14s Bd, 57 at 14s, 46 at 15s 2d, 22 at 14s 9d, 38 at 7s, 43 at 14s 9d.

Store Sheep.—l 24 fat and forward lambs at 18s 7d, 49 lambs at 17s 9d, 73 fat ewes at 9s, 2 4 and 6th ewes 21s 3d.

The total yarding was about 1800

NEW ZEALAND DAIRY OUTPUT. .82.2 PER CENT FROM NORTH ISLAND. Some interesting figures, not hitherto published, showing the extent to which dairying is carried on. in New Zealand, were used by Mr T. C. Brash, secretary of the National Dairy Association, in addressing a recent meeting of representatives of dairy companies of Marlborough, at which the proposed compulsory pool of dairy produce was unanimously approved.

Mr Brash stated that- for th e year ending 31st March last, New Zealand’s output of butter-fat, as represented by the butter and cheese graded, was 58,403 tons. Of this, Auckland contributed 23,659 tons, or 40.5 per cent; Taranaki 12,954 tons; or 22.2 per cent; Wellington (including Wanganui), 9439 tons, or 16.1 per cent; Nelson, Marlborough, and Westland 1851 tons, or 3.3 per cent. This showed that the North Island, with the inclusion of Nelson, Marlborough, and Westland, produced 85.5 of the total output. The figures for the South Island were:—Canterbury 2672 tons, or 4.5 per cent; Otago 1862 tons, or 3.2 per cent; and Southland 3986 tons, or 6.8 per cent Putting Nelson, Marlborough and Westland in their proper geographical positions, the North Island produces 82.2 per cent of the total output, and the South Island the remaining 17.8 per cent. For the twelve months ended 31st March, New Zealand’s exports of dairy produce were valued at £8,885820 for butter and £7,615, 254 for cheese.