COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17076, 13 April 1927, Page 10

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

HAMILTON MARKETS. SEEDS AND PRODUCE. i A steady week’s business was ■transacted in Hamilton, few alterations in quotations being recorded. Crass seed and manures are still being disposed of in large quantities. The latest figures are as follow: —Oats, Cartons 5s per bushel, Duns 5s Gd, Australian 7s; maize, 9s; wheat, 8s Gd; pollard, 12s; bran, 10s Gd; barley meal, 13s, vetches, 10s 9d; black barley, 10s Gd; Cape barley, 8s; sucrosine, 14s; chaff, £lO 10s per ton. Fruit. Good supplies of fruit are now availapples being particularly plentiful. Prices on the whole are fairly cheap. Keen competition exists for eating pears, and large quantities are being disposed of, but the season is now drawing to a close. Grapes are also becoming scarce, but the price has not altered. Latest quotations are: Apples, Delicious 5s to 7s a case, Jonathans 5s to 7s, Pearmains 4s to Gs Gd, cookers 3s Gd to 5s 6d; pears, dessert (Winter Coles) 6s to 9s, cookers 3s Gd to Gs; peaches, 8s; oranges, 18s; bananas, 275; tomatoes, Hastings 6s Gd, local, first grade 4s, second grade 2s Gd; grapes, Its to 14s. Vegetables. All classes of vegetables continue to come forward in good supply and arc mccLing with a fair demand. There have been few alterations in prices, latest quotations being: Cucumbers, Is to 4s a dozen; onions, 5s to 7s Gd per cwt; potatoes, local 2s to ss, Rangitikei 7s to 9s; marrows, 3s a dozen; pumpkins, 5s to 8s per cwt; swedes, 3s to ss; carrots, parsnips, beet, turnips, 7s Gd to 8s Gd per cwt; kumaras, id to 2d per lb; cabbages, 5s to Gs a sack.

Poultry. Messrs J. R. Fow and Co., Ltd., report having yarded about 450 birds during the week, all being disposed of at satisfactory prices. Good table birds, young ducks and pullets, were in keen demand, but old hens on the moult did not receive much attention from buyers. Latest quotations are as follows: Cockerels, 3s Gd to 4s Gd each; chick cockerels, 2s Id to 3s; liens, heavy 3s to 3s Gd, light 2s Gd to 3s, old Is 8d to 2s 4d; young ducks, 4s id to ss; old ducks and drakes, 2s 3d to 2s 7d; pullets, 8s to 9s 3d; turkey liens, 5s Gd to 7s; geese, 4s 6d. Dairy Produce. A further rise in the price of eggs has been recorded, the latest figures being 3s per dozen (retail), and 2s 8d (wholesale). Prices for butter are unchanged. Fish. Fish are now becoming scarce. Schnapper is in fair supply, but flounder are difficult to obtain and most'' deep-sea fish are available in limited supplies. Quotations are unaltered. LONDON MARKETS. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The Department of Industries and Commerce has received the following cablegram from the High Commissioner's Office, London, dated April 9:

Tallow. —The market is quiet but steady. Present quotations are: Mutton: Fine 37s per cwt, fair to good 35s Gd to 36s Gd, dark to dull 33s Gd to 34s Gd. Beef: Sweet or mixed 37s to 40s, fair to good 34s Gd to 375, dark to dull 32s Gd to 33s 6d. Mixed: Fair to good 34s Gd to 3Gs Gd, dark to dull 32s Gd to 33s Gd. Gut, etc.: 30s to 32s 9d.

Iloncy.—The market is quiet and there is practically no demand because of bulk. Present quotations are: New Zealand: White 75s to 85s per cwt, light amber 70s to 85s, medium amber, prime 60s to 72s 6d, dark 55s to 60s. Californiah: 42s 6d to 52s Gd. Jamaican: 33s to 475. Siberian: 32s to 50s, Chilean: 40s. Canadian: 35s to 50s.

Hemp.—The market is firmer for all hard fibre on account of the somewhat better outlook. Manila prices have advanced. “J" grade April-. Tune shipments sold at £43 10s, but closed a little easier, with sellers April-Juno shipments at £42 10s to £43. The output in Manila from January 1 to March 31 was 295,000 bales, against 322,000 for the same period last year. Stocks in Manila at March 31 were 121,000 bales, against 173,000, and in Great Britain 3537, against 25,185. The sisal market is firm. Tanganyika and Kenya No. 1 April-June shipments are quoted at £3B 10s and No. 2 at £37 10s, sellers. There is a somewhat better demand for New Zealand, but little is offering. Highpoints April-June shipments are quoted at £35 10s and fair at £34, value. Wool.—Bradford business in tops is quiet and the demand is not expected to increase until after the holidays. \ ADDINGTON MARKET. Heavy entries of store sheep, fat sheep, fat lambs and fat cattle made the market one of the largest for a long time.

For local store ewes demand was fairly good and sales of this class were easier to make. The best of the North Island two-tooths were sought after, but the older ewes from the North would have been practically un _ saleable if it had not been for competition between southern buyers. As it was they eased by Is to 2s a head and the inferior two-tooths from across the Straits declined by about the same extent. Forward store lambs that would fatten before the end of the freezing season, met with keen competition, and prices showed an improvement, but ordinary sorts were not in demand, and ewe lambs were not easy to sell.

The entry of fat cattle totalled 68G head,. There was a better showing of prime steers, including several station lines. Cows however, formed a considerable portion of the entry and many of them were of inferior quality. On account of the large entry, a general casing in prices was recorded amounting to from 20 to 30s a head on laic rates. Inferior cattle were particularly hard to sell, but, considering the .size of the entry, there was a remarkably good clearance.

Fat sheep also came forward in large numbers, twelve races being filled. The yarding included several lots of prime wethers, hut ewes were in the majority, and they varied a great deal in quality. The demand for fat sheep was well maintained, and most lots were cleared at satisfactory prices. The entry of fat lambs totallambs.- suitable for butchers’ purlied 3060 head. Prime heavy weight lambs suitable for butchers’ pur-

poses, were in demand as also were prime freezing weights, which, if anything, made a bit above schedule prices. Secondary quality lambs hardly maintained export values. There was a fair' sized entry of store cattle. The demand was moderately good, but dairy cattle hardly sold so well, though good sorts met with free competition. The yarding of vealers was a large one and the quality was very’ mixed. However, Hi ere was a creditable showing of well finished calves and these sold firmly at late rates. Fat pigs came forward in large numbers. Competition was fairly good, especially for porkers. Store pigs, on the other band, met with e dull sale.

Following are-ranges of values: — Fat cattle. —Extra prime heavy steers to £l6 2s 6d; medium-weight £l2 to £l4; medium quality £8 5s to £ll ’ 10s; light and unfinished £5 12s 6d to £8; extra prime heifers to £l3 12s Gd; prime, £7 15s to £9; light, £4 to £7 10s; extra prime cow’s to £ll 12s Gd; prime, £G to £8; ordinary £4 to £5 10s; rough, £3 7s 6d to £5 ss. Store cattle.—Four and five-year-old •steers £8 12s Gd; two-year-old £3 13s Gd; best cows £2 to £3 2s, aged and inferior 21s to 355; Jersey calves 10s; bulls £3 Is to £7 10s. Dairy cattle.—Best second, third and fourth culvers £9 10s to £l4 ss; medium £6 .10s to £9; inferior £4 to £6; rpringing heifers £4 10s to £9 10s.

Vealers. —Large to £6 10s; good, £5 5s to £5 15s; medium £3 10s to £4 15s; small and inferior 10s to 30s. Fat sheep.—Extra prime wethers to 32s lOd; prime 27s to 30s; medium 25s to 26s 9d; light 20s 6d to 24s Gd; extra prime ewes to 26s Id; prime 18s Gd to 235; medium 14s Gd to 18s; light 12s 9d to 14s. Fat lambs. —'Extra prime lambs to 30s Id; prime 25s to 27s 3d; medium 22s to 24s Gd: light and unfinished 18s to 21s Gd.

Store sheep.—Best forward lambs to 17s; forward lambs, 14s to 17s; medium 11s Gd to I3s Gd; small and inferior 8s to 10s 9d; cull 5s Gd to 7s 9d; good half-bred ew r e lambs, to 24? 4d; ordinary 18s 9d to 21s; three-quarter-bred 10s to 19s Gd; best North Island two-tooth ewes, 27s Gd to 29s 3d; ordinary 24s Gd to 26s Gd; low-conditioned two-tooth Romney ewes, 20s to 23s Gd; tw’O-tooth halfbred ewes, 2&s Id; inferior 22s to 255; sound-mouth half-bred ewes, 24s to 26s Gd; inferior 18s 9d to 22s 8d; failing-mouth 12s Gd to IPs 9d; forward Uvo and four-tooth wethers 18s; feur-tooth cross-bred wethers 12s Gd .to 13s Id; six and eight-tooth cross-bred wethers lGs; six and eight-tooth hclf-brcd withers lGs Gd.

Pigs.—Choppens £3 to £7 9s Gd; extra heavy baconers to £4 10s; heavy £4 to £4 ss; lighter £3 10s to £3 15s; equal to sld to G£d per lb; heavy porkers, £2 15s to £3 Gs; light £2 5s to £2 12s; equal to 7d to 8d per lb; wbaners 12s Gd lo lGs; slips 17s lo 245; medium stores 2Gs to 31s; large 32s to 38s Gd; extra large to £2 8s; sows in pig, £2 12s to £3 ss.

FEILDING SALE. Mossy's Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on the Feilriing sale held on Friday, April 8. There was a very good entry of both sheep and cattle

which met with a keen sale, lambs especially selling very well. F.at stock also met with a keen demand. We quote:—Sheep: Fat lambs, 17s 6d to 275; fat wethers, 22s 6d to 24s Id; fat ewes, 11s Gd to 15s 8d; store wethers, 22s sd; forward empty ewes, 12s Id; store ewes, 8s 6d to 10s; ewes in lamb 16s id to 17s sd; Romney wether lambs, good, 14s 3d to 15s; b.f. lambs, 11s Id to 15s 6d; ewe lambs, 16s; small lambs, 8s to 10s 6d; S.D. rams, 64gns. Cattle: Fat steers, £5 os to £7 11s; fat cows, £3 2s 6d to £5 17s; forward cows, 35s to £3 2s 6d; dairy’ cows, springing, to £lO ss; cows in milk, £3 53; spring heifers, £8 10s; bulls, £3 7s to £4 15s. A