LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 30, 29 October 1921, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report that at Levin, on Tuesday, they offered good yardings of all classes of stock, with the exception of sheep, to an average attendance, of hovers. Sheep, as has been the case for some weeks pastN were yarded in -mall numbers and were in poor demand. Pigs camo forward in average numbers, but prices were much ea°ier. due, no doubt, to the abseno* of Wellington butchers. Store pigs changed hands freely at last week’s rates. Store and fat cattle were hard to quit at merely nominal rates. Dairy cattle sold well for tho time of the year, prices being well above the ruling rates in the district. They quote: Store pigs £t to £1 145.; porkers, £2 to £2 145.: dairy heifers, £3 10s. to £8 10s • yearling ditto., 16s ; bulls. £1 to £4l’steers. £1 to £2 155.; 2-year-old dairy cows. £8 to £lB 10s. Messrs. Daleety and Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, report having held an unreserved cattle fair at Feildiny on Friday, when onlv a moderate yarding came to hand. There was a good attendance of buyers, competition was keen, and prices realised were satisfactory to vendors. Quotations: Two-year steers. £2 to £2 Bs.: rough three-year steers, £2 Ils., £2 15s. 6d., to £3 55.; three-year-old steers. £3 Ils to £3 155.; four-year low-condition bullock" £4 Ils.; empty heifers, £2 10s.; small three-yea steers, £3 Is. 6d.: a line of 72 three-year-old Polled-Angus fleers realised £4 3s.' 6d. •

Sales of dried fruits in London at midAugust for forward shipment from producing centres had reached large proportions. states an exchange. Plums and apricots had received special attention, and prices of these and other dried fruits had advanced. .Currants were firmer, and a good trade had been done in that fruit but liuvers were not anxious to purchase, sultanas for forward shipment. The outlook was better than it had been for some time. Leading London traders stated that, not only Great Britain, but the whole world, was short of dried fruit, and the drought had spoiled many crops nnd reduced others to only email proportions of those of norma! years. The opinion was expressed that the coming season would prove to be a record one for sales of evaporated fruits. The London market, for canned fruits also was firm, both for spot and forward delivery, pnd prices had advanced in alt positions. Stocks appear to have been reduced largely. Californian canners had shown indifference in regard to the 1921 pack, such having been reflected in heavy shipments of fresh fruits to various consuming markets of the United States. The slowing-down of cannery operations was the result of buyers refusing to pay the high prices demanded by'packers Messrs. Dalgc+y and Company, Ltd., report having received the following eaWcgram from tli<(ir ILonhon bouse, under date October 26.— “Tallow: 400 casks of tallow offered, 150 casks sold. Since our last report fine, sorts are 2<. lower. Market easier for other descriptions,”