COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2777, 22 May 1916, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

FEILDING MARKET REPORT. Messrs. Atkinson and Co., Ltd., sold on Friday lost at the following prices;— Good Weight porkers, to>43s.: others, 31s. to 385.; stores, 235. to 24e.; slips, 15s. to 18s. 6d.;' weaners, 9s. to 125.; harness horse, £12; horso and harness, £12; chaff-sacks, 7id.' Hens, per.pair, 3s.' to 4s. 6d. and 55..9 d. to 6s. for young birds; turkeys, 75.; roosters.■, 4s. to 4s. - 6d.; meadow hay, £5 ton • prime i I clover,. £8 10s. to £9; chaff, £5 10s.. to £6 ,155.; oats, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d.; wheat, ss. 6d. Customs duty collected at the port of; 'Wellington on Saturday amounted to £2577 10s. 9d. . ; i FROZEN MEAT MARKET. Messrs. Gilbert Anderson and Co. (Messrs. ilellsop, Eliott, and Co., Palmerston North, local agents) report on the frozen meat market, under. date London, April 4, as follows: — ■ Home-grown: The severe weather expert- 1 enced during the .week had the effect of delaying traffic and causing a shortage of supplies. .Wether sheep have reached Is.; ewes, lOd.; lambs, 16. 2d.; pork, Is.; veal, Is. Retail buyers, therefore, have nothing cheap to fall back on whatever. . . . /Frozen: Tho scarcity continues, and-it-is to be regretted that privately-owned South ■African- sheep and lambs' g.tg fetchmp exceptionally high rates. Notwithstanding the high prices of other goods, however, Government colonial mutton and lamb have not been raised, and tho public is receiving the benefit of tho commandeering -scheme. Colonial beef is now virtually off tho market, only bull and very poor cow being released. . LONDON MARKETS. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Rec. May 21, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 20/ • .Frozen Meat.-There is a restricted supply North Island mutton is quoted at Ml.; best brands, 9Jd. New Zealand and Australian lambs, 91 d. to 10d. l'abbits are dull and unchanged. ■ Jute—The market -is ' lifeless. Natives Art marks, April-May (shipment, £32 per Zealand hemp is steady and unchanged. . ... , . Rubber.—Hard lino Para, 2s. lOd. tion, 2s. 93d.; smokedi sheets, 25.-Bjd. Copra.—April-June shipment, £32 10s. .per Cotton.—May-June shipment, 8.381-d. per lb. . . . - , THE.WHEAT MARKET. . (Rec. May 21, 5.5 p.m.) •• - / London, May 20. Wheat is 'dull, favouring , buyers. Owing to the-brilliant weather there is a decline in prices .in America, and 635. 6d. is asked. . Chicago May options, 112 c. to-UOlc.; July options,. 113hc. to 111 c.- • The wheat and ilour ailoat for-the United Kingdonf totals 3,245,000 quarters, for the Continent 4,470,000 quarters. Atlantic shipments^,CCO. quarters; Pacific, 17.CC0 quarters; total for • Europe; 1,675,000 quarters; India, 2000; Argentine, 294,000; and' Australasian, 126,000 quarters.