COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16652, 18 November 1925, Page 2

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

HAMILTON MARKETS, FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. - American apples are being received at the Hamilaon markets in fair quantity, and are realising 20s to 22s 6d per case. The now season’s fruit is also ooming to hand, gooseberries realising 6d to 8d per lb; cherries (Hawke’s Bay), 2s to 2s 6d per lb; hothouse tomatoes, 6d to 2s per lb. Sturmer apples are selling up to 6s, Doughertys to 12s 6d, Delicious 16s. Vegetables are moving off slowly at late rates. Poultry. Small yardings of poultry were penned during the week. High prices were maintained, heavy roosters bringing from 4s to 6s 9d, light 2s 7d to (is lid; young hens 3s 7d to ss, old 2s 9d to 3s 3d; ducks, 2s 6d to 4s; hen and chickens averaged 20s. Dairy Produce. Butter is selling at prices ruling last week, namely, Is lOd per lb for superfine, Is 9d for first grade, and Is 8d for second grade. Eggs are retailing readily at Is 8d per dozen, the wholesale price being Is sd. LONDON MARKETS. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The Department of Industries and Commerce has received the following cable from the High Commissioner’s office, under date, London, November i 4 : y Hemp!—Manila market quiet, closed steadier. "J” grade January/March shipments sold £4l. Output January/ September 1,036,000 bales against .1,294,000 same period last' year. Stocks Manila 3ist October. 183,000 against 155,000.’Great Britain, 37,868 against 5,88 4. Sisal market quiet but firm. Value No. 1 Tanganyika, November/ January, £45. New Zealand market quiet. Value Highpoints November/ January. £39. Business has been done in fair, £35, common, £34. Wool.—Bradford market quiet, but steady. Lower qualities are in demand. Quotations unchanged. Apples.—Oregon Newton, 14/- io 16/- per case; Californian Newton, 11/-'lo 13/- per case; British Columbia, Jonathan, 11/- to 13/6 per case; Nova Scotia, King’s 18/- to 22/- per barrel i> Ribston Pippin, 18/- to 22/-* per barrel. English: Cox’s Orange, Special, 20/- to 30/- per bushel; Blenheim’s, 5/s to 8/s per bushel; Cooker’s —Bramley’s and Newton, and Wonder, 4/- to 6/- per bushel. Tallow:—Spot market firmer. Present quotations arc: Mutton—Fine, 42/to 48/6 per cwt; fair lo good, 44/lo 47/6 per cwt; dark lo dull, 41/io 41/6 per cwt. Beef—Sweet and/or mixed, 44/6 to 47/- per cwt; fair to good, 4.1/6 to 44/6 fier cwt; dark to dull, 40/- lo 41/- per cwt. Mixed— Fair>to g00d,'4176 to 42/04 per cwt; dark to dull, 40/- to 41/- per cwt'. Gut, etc.—37/- to 41/- per cwt. Eggs: Short supplies. Steady demand" for alt kinds. Present quotations are.—English, Danish, 32/6 lo 35/- per long 100;'Irish, Dulch, Belgian, 27/- to 32/- per long 100; French, Italian, 23/- to 126/- per long 100; Australian, 22/- to 23/- per long IDO; Lituanian, Argentine, Russian, Chinese, 12/- to 17/6 per long 100; South African, 19/- to 20/6 per long 100. HAMILTON STOOK SALE, Hie Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., report:—At our weekly stock sale held in the Franklon yards yesterday, we had a moderate yarding of steer and cow beef, which sold under reduced rates. A small number of fat sheep were offered, and values also showed a decline. A full number of fat and storo pigs came forward; fats did not maintain the values of late markets, while stores sold under the usual firm competition. Beef. —Medium weight prime steers, £l4 6s to £ls; well finished light, £l2 16s to £l3 12s Gd; prime heavy fat' cows and heifers, £l2 10s to £l4 2s 6d; prime, £9 10s to £JO Is; medium, £7 2s 6d to £8; light and unfinished, £3 19s to £5 10s; forward conditioned good framed cows; Hereford cross, £5 10s; in store condition, £4 10s to £4- 16s; 2-year Polled Angus heifers, £6 ss; 15-months Jersey and Jerscv cross heifers, £4 4s to £4 ss; small, £2 15s to £3 10s; good quality 15-months Shorthorn heifers, £3 10s to £3 19s. Sheep.—Early shorn 4th and 6th fat wethers, 355; prime shorn owes, 31s Cji; rricdiurh, 26s 3d to 28s. Pigs.—Heavy baconcrs £4 5s to £4 13s; medium, £3 10s to, £3 17s; light baconers and good porkers, £3 to £3 10s; medium porkers, £2 12s to £2 18s; light, £2 5s to £2 10b; unfinished, £2 to £2 ss; best slips, 30s to 355; others, 22s to 28s; good weaners, 25s to 275; medium, 18s to %'■; small and young, 12s to 16s. Messrs. Dalgcty and Company, Limited, report having held their usual weekly stock sale at Frankton saleyards on Tuesday, as. under:—There was a moderate yarding of beef, and a large yarding of store cattle., Ox beef was easier, and sold at equal to 40s per hundred. Cow and heifer beef sold at 35s lo 38s per hundred; heavy prime cows and heifers up to £9 ss; light cows and heifers, £5 7s to £6 18s; store cows, £4 17s to £5 10s; forward conditioned 4-year-old Hereford bullocks made £lO 4s to £9 10s; 3-year-old store steers, £7 17s to £8 15s; 2-year-old Hereford stbers, £6 14s to £6 19s; small -ditto, £5 12s; 3-year-old Polled Angus steers, £8 4s; 2-ycar-old. Polled Angus steers, £7 to £6 10s; small yearling Polled Angus steers, £4 7s; 2-yr-old Hereford heifers £4 17s; 1-yr Polled Angus heifers, £3 19s; ditto Hereford, £3 15s; Holstein bulls, £7 10s; Jersey bulls, £2 10s to £4 15s; Potters, £2 to £4. There was a fair yarding of fat sheep. The demand was fair, and prices were lower, especially spring lambs, which were yarded in larger numbers, and were consequently lower. Shorn fat, ewes made 30s to 28s Gd; shorn wethers, 33s Gd; prime spring lambs, 25s to 325. Pigs.,—Bacon pigs were easier. Heavy baconers, £4 5s to £4 16s; medium ditto, £3 Gs to £4 3s; good, £2 18s to £3 8s; small ditto, £2 12s to £2 16s; large stores, £1 ,16s to £2 2s; good slips, £1 8s to £1 11s; best'weaners, £1 to £1 4s; small weaners, 14s to 18s. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report: At the Hamilton sale on Tuesday there was a full varding of cattle and a small entry of sheep. The market generally had a quieter tone and prices were easier. We quote: Medium fat steers £l3 19s to £l4 17s Gd, good fat cows £9 5s to £ll 2s 6d, lighter cows £7 17s to £8 j 4s, veal calves £1 19s s to £3 15s, small framed store cows £2 9s to £3 3s, 15-months Friesian and Jersey cross heirers £2 14s lo £3 3s, Shorthorn heifers £3 10s lo £4, fat ewes j;i ss, fat wethers £1 13s 6d, fat hogpen Cl r,p r,r| io £1 9s. A good yarding of fat and store pigs came forward ; fat pigs showed a slight decrease on last week’s rates. Heavy baconers £4 ids lo £ l 17s, medium 'Continued a' froi of next column..! .

baconers £4 2s to £4 7s : light baconers and heavy porkers £3 12s lo £3 iGs, porkers £2 15s to £3 2s, good slips £2 to £2 9s, others 36s to 38s, slips 30s to 345, weaners 20s to 255. MEAT MARKET. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Hamilton, have received the following cablepram from their London house under dale 13th instant.:— Lamb, 10.? d per ib (average). Mutton. —Wether and maiden ewe, light 73d per lit, heavy. 7 3-8 d; ewe, Jielit s?d per lb, heavy std. Small demand.