COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume 101, Issue 16948, 10 November 1926, Page 2

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

| , HAMILTON MARKETS. SEEDS AND PRODUCE^ There has been no improvement in sales of seeds at the Hamilton markets, the unfavourable weather conditions holding up alt cropping opcrntions. There' has been no alteration in quotations, which are as follow:—Fowl wheal;, 10s per bushel; oats, r.arl.ons fis Gd, Duns(bcsl) 7s. second grade Gs 9d, machine dressed Algerian'7s Gd: maize, 9s: chaff. 13s per cwt ,\ bran, 12s Gd per 1001 b; pollard, 13s 6d; Sucrosinc, 15s. Fruit. . Several small consignments of fruit arrived during the week, but failed to supply the demand. If is-anticipated that supplies will improve next, week. A shipment of American apples is due to arrive to-day. Quotations arc: Apples, Doughertys 8s to 9s a case, Slurmers lis to 12s, American varieties 16s 6d to 18s: oranges, 17s Gd to 225; lemons, Gs to 10s; Island tomatoes lis to 15s. Vegetables. Fair supplies of good quality vegetables continue to come forward and arc being sold at good prices. A few beans were offered and realised Is 6d per lb. Root crops are again scarce. Ouolations are: Cabbages, 5s to 9s a sack; cauliflowers, 7s to 10s; green poas, 3s to 4s a peck; kumaras, lid to 2d per lb; onions, Canadian 22s a crate; potatoes, new 16s to 18s per cwt; rhubarb, 3s to 5s a dozen bundles. Poultry. Small yardings of poultry have come forward, farmers having been interested in the show during the week. There was little fluctuation of prices, which are as follow: Cockerels, heavy 4s to 4s 6d each, light 3s to 4s; hens, heavy 3s Gd to 4s, light 2s lOd to 3s Id; ducks, 3s to 4s. Dairy Produce. A further rise has been recorded in duck eggs, which arc now on a par with the prices of hen eggs. Prices in butter have not altered. Quotations arc: Eggs, wholesale Is Gd, retail is 10s; butter, superflnc Is. 7d, first; grade Is 6d, second grade Is sd. Fish. Small supplies of flounder have been coming forward to the local markets. Good supplies of schnapper are available, while hapuka and blue cod are also fairly plentiful. The season is yet early for mullet, and only small supplies have been received. Quotations arc: Flounder, lOd per lb; hapuka, Is; mullet, Set; blue cod, Is 3d; schnapper, fresh sd, smoked 9d; butterflsh, lOd. LONDON MARKETS. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The Department of Industries and Commerce has received the following cablegram from the High Commissioner's office, London, under date November 6:— ! Tallow. —Market quiet. Official quotations are: Mutton, fine 43s Gd per cwt, fair to good 41s to 42s 6d, dark to dull 40s; beef, sweet and-or mixed 42s to 455, fair to good 40s 6d to 42s Gd, dark to dull 38s to 395; mixed, fair to good 40s to 41s Gd, dark to dull 38s to 395; gut, etc., 36s to 38s.

Honey.—Somewhat more enquiry on account of cold weather. Present quotations are: New Zealand white GBs to 80 cwt, light amber special Gss to 70s, medium amber prime 5Gs to Gss, dark 56s to 08s, Canadian 46s to COs, Callfornian 42s Gd lo 50s, Jamaican 35s lo 38s, Argentine 44s lo 47s Cd, Hawaiian 38s to 4Gs. Oats. —Market steady but quiet for near parcel. Fair average quality Plate afloat make 24s Gd. November shipments offered 22s ' Gd. Chilian Tawny afloat vvorLh 24s nominal value. "A" grade Carton New Zealand, November shipments, 2Ss Gd for 3201 b. Demand is steady for English oats. Choice White make 28s Gd to 29s 6d for 3 cwt.

Peas-—Maple sales reported March or April shipments No. 1 N.Z. Partridge 80s to 85s per 5041 b c.i.f. London. Parcels held by re-sellers sold 84s 6d. TaSmauian market quiet with no business reported recently. Blues, N.Z. and Tasmanian, neglected on account of inferior quality. Demand is chiefly for small round Dutch. Beans. —Steady trade. English good winter make 4Gs lo 4Gs Gd; choice spring 51s lo 53s per 5321 b. Some business has been done with Chinese horse. November shipments £lO 15s to £ll. per ton. Cocksfoot- —Danish market very quiet. Reported offered November shipments 71s Cd per cwt c.i.f. main ports without any result. Hemp.—Manila market Armor. "J" grade October-December shipments quoted £47 value. Sisal steady. No. 1 October-December shipments quoted: Tanganyika £43 and Kenya £42 10s value. Demand exceeds supply for Sisal low. Parcels sold £32 10s lo £33 10s. No change since last report in Mexican separation. Better demand for New Zealand in sympathy with Manila. October-December shipments highpoints quoted £3B 10s; fair £35 10s value. Wool. —Bradford business still very slow. Little improvement expected until settlement is arrived at in coal strike. Nominal quotations are; Gl's (Merino) warp 3s JOd, do. average 3s 9d, sG's (super halfbrcd) 3s 7d, 50's (fine crossbred) 3s Id, 40's prepared Is 7L;I.

HAMILTON STOCK SALE. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd., report:— At the weekly stock sale in the Frankton yards on Tuesday wo had a small entry of beef and an average entry of fat sheep, and sold at advanced rales lo those reached the previous week. The usual full number of fat and store pigs was penned and prices for all classes were easier, fats realising equal lo 5Jd lb. Beef.—Prime heavy bullocks £l3 7s Gd; light prime bullocks £ll JGs; light £8 19s; heavy fat cows £7 9s lo £8 12s; unfinished £5 10s lo £5 15s; vcalcrs £1 19s to £2 12s; three and four-year store steers £7 Gs to £7 15s; three-year steers £G lis to £7 3s; choice yearling S.H. steers £3 IGS; slore cows £3 2s Gd to £3 15s; yearling Jersey cross heifers £3 10s lo £3 12s Gd; good two-year-old Jersey herd bulls sold to £10; springing heifers medium quality £5 to £G 10s. Fat sheep.—Prime wethers in wool 34s Gd; prime woolly hoggets 30s Gd lo Sis Gd; prime ewes in wool, 28s Gd; prime heavy shorn ewes .2Gs 9d; plain and unfinished J7s Gd. Best prime lambs 2Gs to 20s Gd; extra prime shorn hoggets 2Gs Gd. Pigs.— Heavy baconers £3 to £3 14s; light baconcrs £3 4s lo £3 Gs; heavy porkers £2 18s to £3 Is; light porkers £2 JOs lo £2 las; slip's 30s to 335; best woaners 2is "1.0 28s; young and smaller IDs to 20s.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report —At the Hamilton sale on Tuesday, beef was penned in usual supply and sold under brisk competition, late prices for'prime being maintained. Fat, sheep and lambs improved slightly in value, and store cattle sold exceptionally well. Wc quote:—Fat bullocks £l3; prime fat cows £9 8s to £lO ss; fat heifers £8 12s Gd to £9; lighter cows £6 10s to £8 10s; vealcrs £3 6s to £3 18s; well-grown yearling Shorthorn steers £3 Is to £3 14s: store cows £2 to £3 15s: yearling Jersey heifers £2 12s Gd to £3 7s Gd; fat woolly wethers £1 13s 3d; fat hoggets shorn, 19s 9d to £1 2s 9d; fat lambs £i is Gd to £1 4s 9d. Pigs were yarded in average numbers. We quote:—Heavy baconcrs £3 :12s to £3 17s; medium £3 3s to £3 10s: heavy porkers £2 16s to £3; others £2 8s to £2 14s; stores £1 15s to £2; slips £1 8s to £1 18s; wcancrs 16s to £1 2s.

Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having held their usual weekly slock sale at Frankton on Tuesday, as under: There was a moderate yarding of store cattle, our entry totalling 818. Reef prices were about the same as last. week. Best young cows and heifers made up to £9 ss, choice prime bullocks £l4, medium cows and heifers £7 to £8 ss, aged and inferior £5 10s to £G 17s Gd, runners £2 to £2 Lis, vealcrs 35s to 455. There was good competition for the store cattle yarded, and practically every pen was realised at auction at the following rates: Four-year-old bullocks (fresh conditioned) up to £8 17s, four and five year old bullocks (mixed colours) £6, good coloured £7 6s, three-year-old Shorthorn bullocks £G 15s to £6, two-year-old Hereford steers £5 6s to £4 17s 6d, inferior three-year steers £3 17s Gd to £4 10s; forward store cows £4 5s to £4 16s, medium-quality cows £2 12s Gd to £3 Is, yearlingsteers £3 Is to £3 10s (inferior quality). There was a small yarding of sheep. Prices were better than last week. Fat woolly ewes 29s 3d, fat shorn ewes 18s to 26s 3d, prime woolly wethers 345, prime spring lambs made 23s Gd to 27s 4d. There was a fairlylarge yarding of fat pigs, while stores a:.d weaners did not come forward in such large numbers as usual. We quote: Large baconers £3 12s to £3 19s, medium £3 2s to £3 12s; heavy porkers £2 lGs to £3 2s, light porkers £2 10s to £2 14s; choppers, £4 to £4 4s; large stores, £2 Is to £2 7s; slips, 30s to 38s; weaners, ISs to 245. ADDINGTON MARKET. The entry of fat cattle at the double market at Addington totalled 620 head. For a double sale the entry was not too large. On the whole the quality was good. There was a good showing of prime medium weight beef. The sale opened with a much better demand and with prices up by fully 30s a head. This higher level was maintained unLil near the end of the sale, when competition slackened and prices eased by about 10s a head on opening rales. Good class medium weight cattle met with the best demand. Prices per 1001 b were: Extra prime medium weight beef to 445, prime medium weight 38s Gd to 41s, heavy weight 35s to 37s Gd, best heifer beef 35s 6d to 41s, good cow beef 35s to 395, medium quality steer beef 32s to 355, and rough down to 28s. There was a very heavy yarding of fat sheep. At the start prices were on a par with those previously ruling, and for a time there was an improving tendency. Towards the end, however, the demand became less keen, and prices eased to the extent of about 2s a head on the values ruling earlier in the market. Over the last race some passings were made. Taking the sale as a whole, however, prices did not show much variation from the previous sale. The entry of spring lambs numbered G7O head. This number was not too large for a double market, and the sale was a keen one throughout. All decently finished lambs made prices from 3s to 4s' a head in advance of late rates, and values per lb were from lid to 12d. The demand for store sheep was a good deal freer than the previous week,/ though shorn wethers did not soil very well, and a good many passings were made in this class. Ewes and lambs and hoggets were about Is a head better than at the previous sale.

Only a small number of store cattle were penned. The demand for fairly forward sorts were active. Most of the dairy cattle yarded were of a nondescript character, but still they sold well at prices equal to the improved ones of last week. There was a large yarding of vealcrs, but many of them were quite unfit for the purpose of butchers. The number of killable sorts was not equal to requirements, and for this class prices were better. The entry of porkers was in excess even of the requirements of a double market. Still, for the greater part of the sale, they sold, on a par with last week, but, in the final stages, there was a distinct casing. Baconers, on the other hand, opened slackly, but the demand for them improved as the sale went on. Only a medium sized entry of store pigs was offered. They met with active competition and made better prices than at the previous sale. Following is the range of values: Fat Cattle. —Extra heavy bullocks to £2O 7s 6d, prime heavy steers £IG to £lB 10s, prime medium" weight £l4 10s lo £l7. medium quality £l2 to £.14, light £9 to £ll ss, extra prime heifers lo £l4 17s Gd, prime £ll 10s to £l3 15s, ordinary £S 10s to £ll, extra prime cows lo £l4 7s Gd, prime £9 lo £l.l 15s, medium £7 to £8 15s, light and aged £4 15s to £6 15s. Store Cattle. —Good fresh cows to £5 10s, medium quality £2 10s to £3 10s, inferior 30s lo £2, yearling steers and heifers 31s Gd. Dairy Cattle.—Best second, third and fourth calvers (springing) £7 lo £9 10s, medium £5 lo £5 15s, inferior £3 10s to £4 10s, springing heifers £3 10s to £7 10s. old cows in profit 35s lo £3. . Vealcrs. —Good runners to £B, medium £G to £G 15s, good calves £5 5s to £5 15s, medium £4 to £5, inferior 15s to 30s. Fat Sheep.—Extra prime wethers to 47s iOii, prime 37s to 41s, medium 34s 3d to 3Gs, light 32s to 33s 9d, extra prime shorn wethers to 42s Gd, prime 31s to 35s 3d, medium and light 23s Gd to 28s Gd, extra prime ewes to 39s 4d, prime 31s to 345, medium 28s to 30s &d, light 23s Gd to 2Gs 9d, extra prime shorn ewes to 32s 7d, prime 2Gs lo 29s lOd, medium and iight 20s Gd to 25s Set, prime woolly hoggets 30s to 34s Id. Spring Lambs.—Extra prime 35s Gd lo 38s 4d, prime 30s to 355, medium 2Gs Gd to 29s Gd, light 25s lo 2Gs 3d. Store Sheep.—Aged halfbrcd ewes with fair lambs 14s Gd to lGs, aged f-bred ewes with fair lambs 14s to 15s Bd, inferior aged halfbrcd ewes Willi lambs 10s to 13s Gd, inferior aged crossbred ewes with lambs 12s lo 13s 9d, extra good Corricdalo ewe hoggets 4Gs Gd, Corriedalc ewe hoggets 35s to 3Gs Gd, good crossbred wether hoggets 22s to 25s 9d; halfbrcd wether hoggets 23s lo 24s Gd, cull halfbrcd wether hoggets 21s lo 22s Gd, 2-tooth shorn wethers IGs /id, 4 end G-tooth halfbrcd woolly wethers 2Gs lo 2Ss Gd, 2 and 4-tooth halfbrcd shorn wethers 225. Pigs.—Choppers £2 13s Gd to £B, light baconers £3 10s to £i, heavy £4 10s to £5 10s, extra heavy to £G, average price per lb 7d to 8(1; light, porkers 48s to 545, heavy 57s Gd Lo GOs

Gd, extra heavy to 725, average price per lb BJd to 9d; weaners 28s to 30s, best to 37s Gd, small stores 40s to 445, medium 45s to 50s.