COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14200, 26 August 1920, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

AL4STERTON STOCK SALE. The Wairarapa Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association, Ltd., Stock .Department, report on their weekly sale as •follows:-?—A fair entry came forward to a good attendance. Sheep of all classes showed a decline, compared with last week’s prices; We quote: —2, 4 and (5-tooth forward wethers, 39s Jd; 2-tooth empty ewes, 29sp fat b.f. hoggets, 26s 9d; light fat ewes, 32s Sd; m.s. woolly hoggets (gflfed), 26s 3d; empty 20-month dairy heifers, £5 .16s; sets of harness, £3 6s and £5 10s. The New Zealand Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Distributing Co., Ltd., report on their Mastertou sale as follows: —A good yarding* of sheep came forward in excess of advertised numbers. Competition at auction was limited, and wo passed the bulk of the sheep yarded. Following are the prices recorded at auction: —Fat wethers, £2 3s 8d; .fat ewes, 365; cull hoggets, 14s lid; medium hoggets, 20s 6d to 245; small porkers, £3; sheep dog, £2. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having hold their usual weekly stock sale in the Colombo road yards, Mastertou, when they submitted a fair yarding of sheep and cattle to a large attendance of buyers. The yarding comprised lines of fat ewes and wethers, and these realised satisfactory prices. Following are the prices realised: —Two and 4tootli fat wethers, 455; 2 and 4-tooth ewes, 425; b.f. wethers, 33s Cd; empty ewes, 23s Id; 15-montli dairy heifers, £6; yearling dairy heifers,. £5; 2-year dairy heifers, £6'ss to £7; yearling steers, £3. SOUTHERN PRODUCE. STAGNANT BUSINESS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. Business is stagnant in the bulk of the grain and produce lines. The oat market shows no sign q£ revival, the tone if anything being somewhat more depressed. A few lines of Algerians are going off to the North Island. White clover is still in demand, and business between merchants has taken place ou the basis of 2s 4d. General lines of grass seed show no difference from recent quotationsPartridge peas are in request. Some business has been done on Home account. Partridge White Ivories and Prussian Blues are worth 9s to 9s 6d to growers. The possibility of tho potato embargo being removed has not enlivened the market. A few lines have been bought at from 35s dawn to 30s.