COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 March 1915, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

♦ 1 LEVIN STOCK SALE. 1 NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY CO. LTD. At Levin on Friday we offered a 6inall yarding of sheep and a heavy yarding of catle. We quote: Medium fat ewes 17s 9d, fat woolly hoggets 22s 4d; small woolly lambs 7s; shorn lambs 6s to 6s sd. Fat cows £6, £6 ss, £7 7s to £8; light fat heifers £5 2s 6d; P.A. cows £4 17s 6cl; 18-months heifers £2 10s to £2 lis 6d; weaner steers 255. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPOBT. London, March 13. Mutton.—North Island 6d for best qhality; ordinary qualitv s ld; ewes 5 9-16 d. Lamb.—Other than Canterbury 7|d ; second grade 7Jd. Beef—New Zealand hinds 6Jd, fores 6Jd; chilled hinds GJd. fores s§rl. Butter.—Market very firm. Danish 146s to 148s; New Zealand 138s to 140s. exceptionally 1325; Australian 136 ato 138s, exceptionally 140s: Siberian 130s to 1345; Argentine 134s to 138s. Cheese.—Market very firm owing to continued demands for Government. Holders are firm. The Somerset should dock some time to-day. Canadian supply is practically exhausted. Canadian white and coloured 94s to 965; New Zealand firm, white and coloured 92s to 945; States 86s to 90s: English Cheddar firm 98s to 102s; Australian 89s to 925. Hemp—Market rather more active. There is better demand. New Zea-