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Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1931, Page 4

Prices in the principal fat stock sections at Addington on Wednesday receded. lat cattle were yarded in large numbers, the total being 440. Of these, 110 were from the North Island. Iho quality was lair, the proportion of steeivs being very heavy. The sale was a most erratic one. Steers eased by £1 a i>ead, and cows and heifers to a Smaller extent. The yarding ;of fat sheep was not quite as large as that forward last week. In consequence of a lowered schedule, prices paid by export buyers dropped. Butchers bougnt freely. E'we mutton was down id a lb., and wether mutton id. The drop in price all round was Is to Is 6d a head. The fat lamb entry Was very mixed, but contained a number of splendid lines. The schedule rates vere lower, but prices eased more than the decrease warranted. The drop was Is to Is 6d a head, The entry of veajers was mixed, and did not stimulate a keen demand. Prices were back by os to 7s a head. The entry of both pork and bacon wag small, and met a steady sale at recent rates.

When the manager of the State Coal Mine at Rewanui on Wednesday demanded to see the receipts received by the miners in acknowledgment of their having paid the unemployment levy it was found that although the miners had decided a week ago not to pay any future instalments of the levy, over fifty per cent, had paid. The majqyit,v of. • the remainder asked to W allowed a week in which to pay the levy due on June 30tli. There are about 430 men employed at the mine, and at the secret bailot taken Jast week on the question of paying the levy, ■there was a 2 to 1 majority against payment. The miners are aware that if they have not paid the instalment within seven days after the date on which it is due, they are liable to dismissal.

Sehroders have now started their great mid-winter sale. All millinery and winter goods reduced in price. An early call is to your advantage—-Advt,