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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18342, 30 May 1931, Page 11

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AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. copyright. SYDNEY, May 28. The following are to-day’s quotations on the Sydney produce markets: —-Wheat, ex trucks at Sydney, 2s 4£d; at country 'stations, Is 9Jd; flour, £lO 10s; pollard, £4; bran, £3 10s; potatoes, Tasmanian, to £5 10s; Victorian, £4 10s; onions, Victorian, £4 to £4 10s; onions, Victorian, £4 to £4 10s; oats, white, 2s 6d; Algerian, 2s 3d; maize, 3s 7d. MELBOURNE, May 29. Wheat, 2s 7d; flour, £7; bran, £4; pollard, £4 10s; oats, 2s Id to 2s 2d; Barley, English, 2s 8d to 2s 9d; maize, 4s Id.

AUCKLAND PRODUCE. Wheat.—The market for fowl wheat Is easier, the demand weakening as a result of other foods selling at comparatively low prices. Through stores' graded sells around 6s 9d to 6S lid a bushel; undergrade 6s 6d a bushel. Oats.—The market shows practically no change. B Gartons are selling through stores around 3s lOd a bushel. Barley.—Demand 1 for clipped continues good, and steady business is recorded at around 4s a bushel. Maize.—The market holds firm on the spot, and Gisborne sellers do not appear keen tjo name a price around 5s a bushel, f.o.'b. Merdnants arc asking 6s 3d a bushel through store?, South African crushed Is selling freely through around 5s 3d a bushel. / Chaff.—The /market is lifeless. Good quality IJilenheim is selling through stores Around £7 5s to £7 15s a ton. j Bran and Polfard.—The market for bran and pollar/d Is unchanged. Potatoes.—T)ie position is practically unchanged. Through store, good quality Lftble potatoes sell from £5 5s to £6 a ton. Onions.- —Stooks on the spot are rather short. Through-store, merchants ask around 7s 6d to 8s a cwt. Poultry.—-Cockerels, heavy breeds, prime, 3s to 4s each; not prime, Is 6d upward; light breeds, prime, 2s to 3s; not prime, Is 3d upward; fat roosters, heavy breeds, prime, 2s to 2s 9d; light breed’s, Is 3d to Is 9d; fat bens, heavy, 2s to 3s; light, Is to 2s; laying hens, light breeds, 2s 6d to 3s; pullets, heavy breeds, best, 4s to ss; smaller, 2s upward; light breeds, best, 3s to 4s; smaller, 2s upward; drakes,, young, prime, 3s to 3s 6d; smaller, Is 6d upward; old, Is 6d to 2s 6d; ducks, young, 2s 6d to 4s; old, 2s to 2s 3d; guinea fowls, 3s to 4S. ' ’/■’ , , ' Dairy Produce.—Hen eggs, special grade, 3s Id a dozen; A grade, 2s lid; B grade, 2s 8d; C grade, 2s 3d. Duck eggs, special grade, 2s lOd a dozen; A grade, 2s 9d; B grade, 2s 6d; C grade, 2s 3d. Farmers’ butter, lOd to Is Id a lb.

FERN OAK JERBEY SALE. Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., report having held Messrs. Ti and A. Smith’s annual sale of Jerseys, at Otorohanga yesterday. There was'a good attendance and buyers were operating from the Bay of Plenty,’ King Country and Waikato districts.,. The prices realised compared favourably with those secured at the various sales held this season. Bulls were not in demand, as it is still too early in the eason for most farmers to fill their requirements. The following is a list of the most important purchases : : Heifers: Oakvale Clematis, 39gns, Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., as agents; Takapu Countess, 35gns., Wright, Stephenson and Go., Ltd., as agents; Fern Oak Moana, 30gns., W. H. D'Abrantes, Auckland; Fern Oak Bright Star, 28gns-, S. J. Sanson, Kio Kio; Fern Oak Brilliant, 26gns., A. Garmonsway, Otorohanga; Fern Oak Fleur-de-Lys, 22gns., J. H. Simmond3, Otorohanga; Fern Oak Leola, 22gns., Bennett Sanson, Kio Kio; Hatcliffe Viola, 20gns., C. B. Hobson, Otorohanga., Bulls: Volunteer’s Golden Fern, 40gns., E. Bogguist, Otorohanga; Fern Oak Combination, 36gns., C. Martin, Otorohanga; Fern Oak Volunteer’s Lad, 34gns., R. A. Rasmussen, Otorohanga; Oakvale Venetian, 30gus., E. Meredith, Otorohanga.

CLEARING SALE AT TANIWHA. ■Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having ‘held a clearing sale of stock, etc., on account of Mr W. Robson on the property on Thursday, as under:—There was a good attendance and' prices realised were very satisfactory. We sold 200 two, four, six and eight-tooth ewes in lamb to Romney rams at 11s, and 130 ditto at 10s 9cl; 54 ewes, 7s 9d; 50 wethers, 7s 3d; 34 two-tooth ewe lambs, 9s 6d. Dairy cows fetched from £4 5s to‘£7; 10 Polled Angus and Hereford run cows £3 and £3 2s 6d; Hereford bull, £2 15s; 28 eighteen months steers and heifers (Polled Angus and Hereford), £2 15s; 29 weaner calves (Hereford and Polled Angus), £1 Is; cull cows, 27s 6d; aged draught mare £l3. Sundries and furniture at current rates.

MILKING SHORTHORNS, SALE AT KIO KIO. The third annual sale of the Pinedale Milking Shorthorns, the property of Mr G. D. Hall, was held at the Kio Kio homostoad yesterday, before a large attendance of dairymen and cattle breeders. The prices realised at auction were in favour of the purchasers. Thirty-eight head came under the hammer, comprising nineteen yearling heifers, six two-year in-calf heifers, one two-year-old Hull and twelve yearling bulls. Fanciers' of the breed were present from many parls of the North Island, but competition was on a par will recent stud sales, as regards the entire absence of any speculative bidding.

LONDON MEAT MARKET, Dalgety and Company, Limited, has received the following cablegram from London: —• Frozen Meat. —Prime Canterbury iamb, 281 b to 361 b, 7 3-8 d: North Island, 7 J-8d; 361 b to 421 b, 6 7-Sd; second quality, 5 7-8 d; 421 b to j(Jlb , 7(1. The market for Nera Zealand iambs is firm. .Thrt dtilU and is better,

owing towartin weather. Prime Canterbury mutf'jOn, 481 b to,• 561 b, 4sd; North Island, \ 4 3-8 d; 561 b to 641 b, 4Jd; 641 b to 1121 b, 4 l-8d; ewes, 481 b to 641 b, 3 7i-Bd. The market for New Zealand button Is very firm and the demand is/ active. Prime ox beef, hinds, 3d; fortes, 2d. The market for New Zealand Heef is nominal and there is no demands English pork, 801 bto 1001 b, 9d; Ne\)v Zealand porkers, 801 b to 1001 b, 5Hi; 1001 b to 1201 b, sd. The market fop New Zealand pork is very dull and jthe demand Is poor. r - MORRINSVIIILE STOCK SALE. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Com pany, Limited, report. At MorrinßYille sale we penned an extra heavy yardijng of store cattle and the usual yarding of 'beef and. young oattle. There ivas a good entry of all classes of she®p and these fully maintained late} quotations. The advertised lines (bf Polled Angus and Hereford steers!, ex-Gisborne and East Coast districts, \ met with a good reception. There! was a large attendance of buyers} and competition was good, and practically the whole lot sold under the h ammer at satisfactory prloes. There was also a good entry of dairy cattle, good quality cows and heifers clos\e to profit realising satisfactory pricels. We penned 462 pigs of all clashes, late rates being maintained throughout. A choioe line of 40 heavy bacon ers on account of Mr R. E. Farrow, "V ifaltoa, averaged £3 7s 9d. A line of 59 medium baconers on account of Mr R. J. Mears, Morrinsville, averaged! £2 15s 9d. Quotations: Prime fat wethers, 17s; fat two tooth light, 7s 9d to//s 6d; prime fat lambs. 14s to 155,.55d; fat lambs, 9s 6d to 13s; store/* lambs, 5s 7d to 7s;-full nxuithed /ewes, running with ram, 4s 6d to Jofl; fat bullocks, £6 7s 6d to £6 (9s; fat cows, heavy, £5 5s to-£5 7s: medium, £4 7s 6d to £4 16s; light, £2 14s to £3 11s; forward conditioned cows, £2 5s ■to £2 10s; fresh store cows, £1 10s to £2 3s; boners, 15s to £1 9s; four and four and a-half years Polled Angus and Hereford steers,' £4 16s to £5 15s; three to three and ahalf years Polled Angus and Hereford steers, £4 5s to £4 18; two and a-half years Hereford steers, £2 ils to £3 15s; 18 months to two years Hereford steers, £1 14s to £2 ss; small Polled Angus and Hereford steers and heifers, £1 6s to £1 10s; two and a-half years 'Hereford heifers; £2 10s to £3 Is; 18 months Hereford heifers,' £2 Is to £2 3s; Polled Angus cows and heifers, running with Polled Angus bulls, £3 17s 6d; Polled Angus, cows, empty, £3 Is to £3 13s; Polled Angus mixed sex calves, £1 6s to £1 8s; Friesian heifer / calves, 21s ; marked Jersey calves, £2 10s to £3 19s; others, 17s to £2 Is. Pigs: Heavy baconers, £3 6s to £3 9s; medium baconers, £2 16s to £3 3s; light baconers, £2 9s to £2 14s; heavy porkers, 39s to £2 ss; light porkers, 28s to 365; unfinished porkers, 23s to 265; slips, fss to 21s; weaners, 9s 6d to 14s.

BRADFORD TOPS. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. .'LONDON, May 28. The Bradford Tops Market l is weaker, topmakers making concessions to obtain business. Quotations: seventies, 23d; sixty-fours, 21id; sixties, 20d; fifty-sixes, 14Jd; fifties, 12d; forty-sixes, lOd; forties, lOd.