AUCTION SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 207, 27 May 1919, Page 8

AUCTION SALES

j FORTHCOMING FIXTTTEES.

I'-,;:.;...': TO-DAY. I Eatturangi, near Huntervillo, 12 noon.— | Sale of stock and implements (Dalgety I and Co., and Murray, Roberts).' i Boott's Road, Linton, is noon.—Sole of | stook, Implements, etc. (Farmers' Co-op, i Distributing- Co.). ! .levin Yards, 12.15 p.m.—Btook sale (Abraj ham and Williams, N.Z. Loan Co., and Dalgety and Co.). ' iUS Lamb ton Qnay, Wellington, 2.30 p.m.— I :"Bole of "freehold properties (Harcourt | ! and Co.).

: TO-ITOBEOW. I 'Gillies' Yards, Te Horo, 12.50 p.m.—Safe i of rtooK, Implements, oto. (Dalget; anil ! . OoJ. . i Main-Road, Kpiori, 1 p.m.—Side of furnii' tare (A. Xi. Wilson and Oo.). ! OiaJtarn, Levin, 1 p.m.—Sale of stock and ' implements (Abraham and Williams)' i 'Alloa Sirtct, Wellington, 2 p.m.—Sale of | , jrinlinK paper, eto. (Townsend and j Chambers of Commerce, Wellington, 2.30 p.m.—Sale of suburban properties (H. [ ■ ■ a, Leiehton),

; THURSDAY. ; "Baoelands," Lepporton, 12.30 p.m.—Sale j of pedigree cattle (Newton King), | Mr,. A. Saunders' Farm,; Shannon,. 12.30 ; p-m.-fiale of dairy stock (Abraham i. and Williams). ! Otald, p.m.—Sale of stock (N.Z. Loan j -Do.). Upper Hutt Yards, 1 am.—Stock sale (Dal--1 gety and Co., I and N.Z. Loan Co.). I j PRICE OF POTATpES ! . .. ' RISE OF 10s. Pfeß TON. • Vhe lifting of the embargo on tho [ oxport of potatoes lias resulted (says the r ."Lyttelton Times") in a riso in the whole- ! lale price of from is. to 10s. a ton. The : rise .would have been much greater if ; shipping \jero available to place tlie crop : on. the Sydney market, but no ships are ! ' being dispatched to Australia from Now I . Zealand and the shipping Btrlko on "the I. other side" makes tho prospects bad for I potato growers.' ' j - A potato farmer stated on Friday that i whereas potatoes were £5 10s. a ton before I the embargo ivas lifted they were now ! £5 15s. or i' 6, the latter price being offeri ed for Juno delivery. Tho crop was good, : and there was no blight,in it, and £6 a ' ton -would pay 1 the grower, although be- ; fore the, embargo the price was £8. ■ . Asked why £8 -was auotod before tho export was stopped, the farmer said that , buyers were speculating on a rife in tho i Sydney price. He added that £6 to-day ; was as good as £10 laßt season, when ; labour was rcouired to pick over the rotai "toeß, and there was a considerable wasI tage.. i A ; potato' merchant confirmed the pre- | sent price as beinc'from £5 15s. to £6, | He remarked that the removal cf the. : embargo ivas not likely to benefit tho i grower immediately, as potatoes could not I; be shipped . anywhere. He anticipated,. ; however, that with shipping available to i Sydney the price would advance still furi _ther,• on ■ speculative grounds, but he. i /doubted whether. Sydney merchants would 1 pay tho nrico unless tho strike had led l" to a rise.. If fanners thought they could I. get thoir tiotatoes shipped to Syduey they j would-, hold for, a riso. He was inclined : "to think that there were not bo many ! potatoes about as some persons "Were try- ■ lng to make out. The crop was fair, !. 'and- without blight, but tho acreage was i less.