COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16812, 2 June 1926, Page 2

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

LONDON MARKETS. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The Department of Industries and Commerce has received the following cablegram from the High Commissioner’s Office, London, under date Slay 29: Hemp: Manila easier. “J ’9 grade June/August shipments sold £3G I Os, jiow quoted £36 sellers. Sisal weak and no business reported. New Zealand easier in sympathy. Nominal value highpoints £35, fair £33. Tallow: No auction this week, but private market remains firm. Fruit: Otira and Tongariro meeting fair demand —Cox's. Orange 14s jto 20s per case, Cleopatra 14s to 15s, Jonathan lis to 13s, Delicious 11s to 14s. Dunn’s Favourite 12s 6d to 13s, other sorts 11s to 11s. 6d. Athenlo and Tairoa commenced discharging. Stoic pears per Athenic in the market and condition generally very overripe and wasty. realising 3s to 7s per tray, Surrey pears landed at Liverpool in good condition, 4s 6d to Os fid. Apples per Turakina in good <•('.0.1111011, Average prices are Grays: Deiiejous lis 7d per ease, Jonathan ■Hs 5d London Pippin 14s 3d, Dunn’s Favourite 13s lOd. 'The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.. Ltd.. Hamilton, have received Hie following cablegram from their London house under date 28th hist:— ‘Lamb: 9 7-8 d per lb (average). ■Mutton: Wei her and maiden ewe, 'light 6 1 -Sd per lb., heavy 5-ld; ewe, light, 4 3-Sd, heavy 4 l-8d; market slow.” HAMILTON SALE. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneireng Company report that at the weekly stock sale in the Frankton yards yesterday they had a full yarding of beef, fat and store pigs, and an average number of sheep were penned. The beef pens consisted chieily of light and unfinished steers, prime young cows and heifers. Steers sold at late rates, while prime cow and heifer beef showed a further improvement. Beef. — Medium-weight fat'steers sold to £lO 10s, lighter £8 12s to £9 Is, light and 'unfinished £7 12s fid to £8 ss, young and unfinished £6 8s to £7 7s 6d; good quality prime heavy cows and heifers £lO to £lO 10s, prime and heavy £8 14s to £8 17s 6d, lighter prime £7 9s to £7 15s; cows, plain heavy £6 2s 6d to £7 2s 6d, light £4 5s to £5. 10s, rough £3 to £3 19s, stores £1 9s to pi 15s; well-bred Shorthorn calves, £2 3s; forward in-calf 3-yc®r Jersey cross heifers £7 15s to £8 10s, backward £5 to £6. Siieep.—Prime heavyfat ewes, 23s to 23s fid; maiden ewes and wethers, 2fis lid; plain fat ewes, 19s; fat woolly hoggets, 23s;,forwardconditioned late shorn hoggets, 18s. The few lines of in-lamb ewes (offered ■ failed to reach the vendors’ reserves. Pigs.—The yarding consisted of .light and unfinished pigs throughout, *and sold at late rates; stores sold as usual. Heavy choppers £4 to £5, light £3 10s to £3 12s; good porkers £2 15s to £3, ' medium £2 8s to £2 12s, light £2 to £2 ss, unfinished 33s to 365; best slips £1 to £1 ss, weaners Ss to 14s. The advertised pedigree pigs sold as follows: Four-months pedigree Tamworth sows, 4gns; Tamworth boars, same ' age, 4gns to sAgns; Tamworth sows in pig, to fijgns; Yorkshire sows in pig, 6gns to 7gns; Devon sows in pig, figns to 7Agns; Berkshire sows in pig, 7igns to Bgns; unregistered sows, .'£s to £5 15s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report :—At the Hamilton sale on Tuesday we had a medium entry of beef and store cattle, and au average yarding of sheep. Prime fat cattle sold well, and ■ mediuni quality at late rates. Values for sheep sfiowed no alteration. We quote:—Heavy fat bullocks £l2 13s; light £8 12s; prime fat cows and heifers £9 5s to £lO ss; lighter prime £7 10s to £8 6s; unfinished cows £5 to £0; fleshy cows £3 17s to £4 Gs; rough store cows £1 12s to £2 ss; Jersey cross heifers in calf £5 to £G Os; dairy cows £4 to £5 10s; light fat 2 tooth wethers £1 7s; fat lambs £1 4s 3d; fat ewes £1; aged ewes in forward condition 11s fid to 15s. Pigs:—An average yarding of fat and store pigs came forward. Fat pigs were a little easier than the previous sale, while stores maintained prices ruling at late sales. We quote:—Heavy baconers £3 18s to £4 6s; medium baconers £3 5s to £3 12s; light baconers and heavy porkers £2 12s to £2 18s; porkers £2 3s to £2 6s: stores £1 4s to £1 8s; slips, 16s to £1; weaners, 9s'to 10s; sows close to farrowing £4 15s to £6 15s. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having held their usual weekly stock sale at Frankton saieyards on Tuesday, June 1, as under: —There was an average yarding of beef, which sold -at late rates. Prime ox sold at equal to 2-8 s per 1001 b, cow and heifer beef (choice prime) up to 26s per 1001 b. Prime bullocks made £lO to £ll 7s 6d; prime cows and heifers made £5 15s to £8 7s; runners, £2 12s 6d to £3. Very few store cattle yarded. Forward cows up to £3 19s. Pens of Jersey cross heifers in calf made £4 10s to £5 17s 6d; empty yearling heifers, £2; dairy cows, £5 to £7 10s. There was a moderate entry of sheep. The demand for fat sheep was moderate at about late rates. Prime ewes 20s to 235, 2-tootli fat ewes 22s to 24s 6d, fat lambs 225, store ewes 12s, full-mouth ewes in lamb to Southdown rams made 17s 6d. Pigs.—Fat pigs were easier, while stores sold at late rates. SALE OF MR MIERS’ JERSEY HERD At Rototuna yesterday the Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd., held a clearing sale of Mr W. I-I. Mfers’ high-grade Jersey herd. There was a good attendance of buyers present. and we report a most successful sale. The whole herd of 50 cows averaged £ls J3s, making £9 to £22 10s. The line of two-year in-call' Jersey heifers made from £ll 10s to £ls 10s, and thc“ high-grade Jersey calves, in small linos, realised from £4 17s fid to , £5 15s. TE AWAMUTU SALE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report: At To Awamulu slock sale on Thursday last we submitted a medium yarding of fat and store cattle for which there was a steady demand. Prices were ten a par with recent sales. We quote :—Fat bullocks medium quality £lO to £ll las; light fat steers, £9; good l'at cows, £7 12s to £9 Is; mediuni £5 6s to £0 3s; unfinished, £4 5s to £4 18s; fleshy cows, £3 5s to £4; rough and aged, £2 7s to £3; 20 months old steers, £3 18s to £4 Is; Friesian, £3 2s Gd; Jersey heifer calves, £1 17s 6d to £3 10s; for good quality Jersey cross heifers, £1 to £1 7s; dariy cows, £8 to £lO 10s; others, £4 15s to £6 as; aged ewes in lamb, 13s; well-condi-tioned lambs, 14s 9d. Pigs: Light baconers, £3 2s; medium porkers, £1 19s to £2 ss; best stores, £1 8s to £1 12s; slips, 17s to £1 16; weaners, 9s to 14s.