LATE COMMERCIAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9852, 3 November 1924, Page 5

LATE COMMERCIAL

LONDON HIDES SALES (Received Nov. 2, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 31. At the hides sales there was a good demand and firm prices. Australians were unoffered. Quotations, nominally, salted 30 to 40-pounds, 7d; 401 b to 50lb, 6?d : 501 b upwards, / s d; dry salted 20 to 30, Bid; 30 to 40d, 9 5 d. HOME MEAT MARKET.

(Received Nov. 2, 1 a.m. • LONDON, Nov. 1. Sheep: Argentine, light, 8d medium 7Ad, heavy Gfd; ewes 6d; I atagonian unoffering. ,„ 3 l Lambs: Canterbury, light 123 d, medium 12.p1, heavy Is; Argentine, new season’s light Is, medium, unoffering, seconds, lid. Frozen beef: N.Z. fores 4 s d • Australian, crops 4Jd., hinds sgd; Argentine, fores 4id; Uruguay, fores 4„d Chilled Argentine fores 4 7 d; Uiucruav fores 3gd; others unchanged.— A. and N.Z.C.A.

Though there have been some losses of small areas of crops round I airhall and Tuamarina, and diougn it is reported that some individual losses of newly-shorn sheep on account of cold will be heavy, the ram generally is welcomed and will have a beneficial effect on the district.—l .A.

HEAVY DOWNPOUR AT WAIRARARA.

MASTERTON, Nov. 2. Heavy rainfall and extensive flooding of rivers has been experienced in the Wairarapa since Thursday Rail and road communication with Wellington has been both blocked bv slips. The floods accounted ioi considerable losses of sheep, which were just recently shorn. ly-noun crops were also affected. Ihe nveis are now subsiding and there are prospects of tho weather breaking. Six inches of rain has been general since Thursday. The Wamgawa river from which the Masterton water supply is drawn, has altered its course and the pipe-line is in danger of complete isolation. . It is. understood that the damage is considerable in South Wairarapa.—l .A.

KOWAI RTVER GOES OVER BANKS.

SEVERE TO POTATO

OHRTSTCeiTROH, Nov. 2. (Extraordinary.) The Ivowai river .overflowed its banks on Saturday night. The watei ran through 'Leithfield Several farms were inundated. ihe township of Sefton also suffered and considerable damage was done by.silt. The potato crops suffered seveiely. A considerable area of land lieai Kaiapoi flooded. —P.A.