COMMERCIAL NEWS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21259, 1 November 1940, Page 12

COMMERCIAL NEWS

GRAIN AND PRODUCE Tin.' AUCKLAND MARKETS AUCKLAND, Friday. Following: Is tlie official market report of the Auckland Grain. Seed and Produce Merchants’ Association. Prices are r.o.b. or f.0.r., Auckland. Barley.—Requirements are being: supplied from merchants’ store stocks, and the price Is: Undipped 4s lid to 5s a bushel, clipped 5s 4d to 5s 6d. Barle.vmeal. —The price te £ll 5s to £l2 a ton. Wheat.—The demand is being: supplied from merchants’ store stocks at 7s 3d to 7 s 4d a bushel. Oats.—The market remains firm at 5s lid to fis 3d a bushel. Bran.—The Australian price through merchants’ stores commands £9 10s to £'» 15s a ton. Wheatmeal.—The price Is unaltered at £in ins a ton. Ip=s lj per cent for a minimum or one ton: smaller quantities. £ii 55 to £ll ins. Chaff.—Present values are £ll 15s to £l2 103 a ton. •Maize. —The demand Is steady at 7s 6d to 7s 8d a bushel. ADDINGTON MARKETS IMPROVEMENT IN PRICES Substantially smaller entries In the main sections were forward at the weekly Addlng-ton market. This combined with an Increased demand In view or the coming- holiday, resulted In an improvement in prices for Tat cattle, rat wethers, spring lambs and porkers. Some 3no spring- lambs sold keenly at from 11 $d to Is per lb. The store sheep were mostly ewes and lambs. Soundmouth ewes, with an average percentage or lambs, sold from 19s to 20s f.d Tor best, and down lo 10s Gd, all counted. No good hoggets were penned About 4000 fat sheep were penned. There was a good sale Tor wethers, with little Improvement in values, and shorn ewes were unchanged. There Is sharp disparity In the price or shorn and woolly sheep. Good shorn wethers made from 30s to 395: a few tops to 425; prime medium, 33s fid to 35s fid: light, clown to 2 ss: best shorn ewes. 31s to 35s 10d; good medium-weight, 27s to 295; light, down to 19s. There were 420 cattle penned and there was a recoverv for good quality or about 20s a head. Best steers made £2O to £24 7s fid for tops, good medium-weights. £l7 to £10; light, down to £it; best heifers, £1 i to £ I fi; tops, to £I 8 7s fid: medium, £l2 to £l3 10s; best COWS. £l3 to £ls; medium. £tl to £l2 10s: inferior, down to £8 10s; best beef, £4B to 51s per 1001 b, and medium from 44s to 46s Cel; secondary down to 4 os. Porkers made from 53s fid to £3 9s fid; average price per Jb. 7d to S4d: baconors. £3 Ds fid to £4 12s Gd; average price per lb, 6id to 7}d. MATAMATA QUOTATIONS Dal get j* and Co., I.id., report on their u-sual fortnightly sale at ’Matamata on Wednesday as follows: There was a medium yarding of sheep and fat cattle and a large yarding of store cattle. These met the usual competition and resulting prices were on a par with recent sales. Eat shorn wether*. 28s to 29s Gd; prime shorn rat ewes, 20S 3d; medium, 16s 9d to 17s 3d; prime woolly hoggets, 29s 9d; shorn Ji' to 2 .Vs lod, ewes and lambs, mixed agos, all counted 17s. Cattle: Prime light bullocks, £ll 10s; heavy rat cows, £7 17s Oil to £3 15s; prime fat heifers, £s to £8 15s; heavy Jersey cows. £0 7s 6d to £0 14S; medium Tat Jersey cows, £5 12s 6d to £0; lighter Jersey cows, £ i 14s to £5 7s 6d; heavy boners, £3 17s to £4 7s; medium, £2 17s to £3 12s Gd; lighter boners. £1 5s to £2 1.2 s 6d; forward-conditioned three-year Polled Angus and Hereford steers, to £10; Polled Angus rows, running with Polled Angus bulls, £5 to £6 sa; potter bulls, £0 to £8 10s; good quality dairy heifers, £9 10s to £ll los; others. £fi ios to £9; dairy cows, £3 to £9 l0«s. There was yarded a pen of exceptionally good quality yearling Jersey hetfers from Mr C. MacDonald, which realised under keen competition, £3 9s; others sold at £6 12s Gd to £7 17s Gd. Pigs: A good yarding or Tat pigs came forward with a full yarding of store pigs. Prices were firm on recent -sales. Large stores were keenly sought after, Weaners were easier than late rates. No topweight baconers were penned. Heavy baconers, £4 to £4 8s; medium, £3 15s to £4; light, £3 8s to £3 15s; jbuttermllk pigs. £3 to £3 12s; heavy porkers, £2 15s to £>3; medium, £2 8s to £2 15s; large store pigs, £2 to £2 10s; medium, 35s to £2; choice slips, 30s to 355; medium, '2ss to 30s; best weanens, 20s to 255: others, 12« lo '2os; choppers, £3 to £3 12s. * VALUES AT CAMBRIDGE Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report (having held their tri-weekly sale at Cambridge on Wednesday. There was a small yarding or all classes or -stock which sold on a par with values at other centres. 'Medium Polled Angus heifers, £8 10s; fat Holstein heifers. £7; fat young Jersey cows, £5 7s to £6 l-s; heavy boners, £3 15s to £4 10s; medium. £2 6e to £3 10s; potter bulls, to £7; medium quality yearling Jersey heifers, to £6; small, £4 183; dairy heifers, close to profit, £9 l’ss to £lf 15s; more backward. £7 10s to £9 ss; good quality Jersey cows in milk, to £ll 15s. Pigs: Choppers, to £2 9s; medium baconers, £3 13s to £3 19s; medium porkers, £2 125 to £2 17S. PUTARURU SALE Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report on their Putaruru sale on Wednesday as follows: A small yarding or both cattle and sheep came forward and sold well up to late rates. Pigs were yarded In average numbers, meetlDg a ready sale. Prime fat ewes. £1 23; rat hogget*, medium, £1 2s ; medium fat wethers, £1 7s Gd. Cattle: Fat Polled Angus cows, £7 to £8; fat Jersey cows, £5 7s 6d to £5 15s; heavy boners, £4 to £4 18>; (medium. £3 2s to £3 18*; potter bulls, £4 10s to £6. Pigs: Heavy baconers, £3 17s to £3 18s; medium. £3 11 s to £3 15S; .good quality buttermilk pigs, £2* to £3 Gs: heavy porkers, £2 13s to £2 17s; medium, £2 7s to £2 125; -store pigs, i3ss to £2; good weaners. £1 5s to £1 7.5; smaller, £1 to £1 3s; sow 3 with litters, to £S 15s.