BURNSIDE MARKET

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3086, 17 May 1917, Page 8

BURNSIDE MARKET

By Telegraph.—Press Association. , Dunedin, Jlay. 16. At Bimisidc 181 fat catfle wero penned. Prices opened easier, but fre.o7.inp;' works buyers operated later, and values closed firm. Best bullocks, £17 10s. to '£19; extra, £22 55.; medium. £14. to £16 10s.; best cows n.nd heifers, £14 to £16; medium, £12 10s. to £13 ss. Sheep: 1396 wero penned. Prices were firmer, especially for prime. Prime .wethers, 425. to, 485.: 525.; medium to good, 365. to 38s. :6d.; prime ewes, SBs. to 435.: extra, 545.3d.;' medium to good, 30s. to 345.; ■others. 265. . Lambs: 821 were penned. The 'finality, was medium, and the competition keen. Prices advanced: Best, 275. to 315".; extra. 325. 9d.; medium, 245. to 265. Gd.; others, 18s. 6d. to 235. Pigs: A medium yarding. Fats were keenly competed for at late rates. A small yarding: of stores was cleared at advanced rates. ' .

Whatever ground there may bo for tho complaints of the Butter and meat, producers of Auckland as to the allotment, of shipping space for the export <5f tlioir products, the wool exporters of tho city are satisfied with the facilities that have fallen to their lot (says the "Now Zealand Herald"). A member of the Woolbrokcrs' Association | stated on Monday tbat the quantity of wool shipped from Auckland in the ten months ending April 30 was 33,322 bales, compared with 33,590 bales in the corresponding period of last year. The American meat packers are nothin" if tliey aro not enterprising. The "following from "The National I'rovisioncr" —their organ —shows bow they are still spreading out:—"Mali advices from Brazil to a Now Yoric newspaper state tbat the head of ono of the largest Chicago packing plants recently visited Brazil, and after looking over tho ground is said to have purchased grazing lands in- ono of the south-eastern States- covering moro than a million acres. Several representatives of this packer arrived in Rio dc Janeiro, among them experts in tho construction department. As a result, it is said, plans will be drawn for tho erection of modern establishments where- the most up-to-date methods in the slaughter and preservation of the meat and utilisation of byproducts known to the trade will he established. American packing interests aro active, in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the old S. and S. interests, now Wilson and Company, control a new and modern packing plant, -which has already shipped considerable beef to the. .United States and