COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1925, Page 3

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

.HARMIAItr STUCK SALE. AL llmvtmi and Co., report: We held a sale of (attic and sheep at the above vanls on Saturday, there being a fair attendance of buyers. ’I be entry i f (attic was only a small one. but comI edition was pai limbi: l,v keen, lat cows and heiivra icalisiug [rices very much belter than those ruling at Arahiii'n yards at [invent, imitating that graziers hold an [itimisti • view of future prospects, wliiih we also anticipate will lie fully realised. The follow ing sales were effected : On account of Robertson Bros. 2 coalers at £ I .'is. 1 empty <ow at £5 15s; on account of Tims, Cron 8 empty cows at j!) 111-. I heifer and 1 cow at £(i 2s lid : one i w at £*i 2s (id. 2 2yr. Steers at £5 15s. 2 2yr. heifers at £5 .is. I at L'.’i 12s (id : On a count of l)un(:,ii McLean Ltd. (Duartt 8 fat cows at £8 ss. 8 al £7 2s (id. 2 at £5 10s. 2 steel's at L'7 2-. HI. 2 aged cows at £1 |7. i,,| on a, mini ol Tim.-. Stsilli':. lio 10-.'i'diog I'M as at 80s (id. 50 at 87 fid, 02 al 87-. li‘,l at 87. s Bn. A I sTR \L! AN WOOL GROWERS. ACC USED'OF RIGGING .MARKET. Sl,*') »sl,!*N AND N.Z. CAULS ASSOCIATION; .‘Received tliis day at 9.2,> a.m.) LONDON, Alarch 0. h l:e newspapers give prominence to a grower's statement from Australia that the Bradford interests are responsible for bearing the wool market and also the eounier suggestion that the grower.-, should act as a check on buyers’ tactics. A feeling is still held in Bradford that the growers attempted to rig the market by holding back merinos am! in that connection, a wool expert writing In the "Economical, say.; that uobiidv is gravely concerned at the cut ting down of the Australian catalogues. Everybody knows wool is there and must appear sooner or later. Tli,. whole trade awaits the London sab's on Tuesday in the hope that a sound basis for values will he established. There was not any justification if r buyers entering the Australian market in September and buying as t|,,. y did. If a return to saner values loads to increased business everybody will be glad.