COMMERCIAL

Southland Times, Issue 21092, 26 May 1930, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

LOCAL MARKETS D. W. McKAY, LTD. Messrs D. W. McKay, Ltd., Exchange Mart, Invercargill, report as follows:—Produce.—Table potatoes, market still heavily supplied, sales somewhat erratic, values £5 to £6 per ton, ex store, Canterbury onions still in oversupply and market low. The demand for chaff is slow, full supplies on hand. Pollard, bran, wheat, and oatdust in heavy supply. Oats and wheat are having a steady demand. Mut-ton-birds are available, kits all sizes and counts. , ... Fruit.—The market is heavily supplied with apples, both from Otago and Nelson. Values are ruling on the low side all round. Pears are coming forward freely. Choice dessert pears are in demand ‘ but other samples difficult to place. A few late tomatoes still coming forward, but the demand is poor, quinces are wanted. Island oranges are plentiful, also ripe bananas, green bananas are due early this week. Mandarines, lemons and pie melons are expected at an early date. Good demand for large cauliflowers, but other vegetables coni“ ing to hand are in full supply. Current prices approximately as follows:—Apples, dessert from 6/6 to 12/6 according to grade and variety, cookers to 24d lb; pears lid to 24d per lb; Island oranges 25/-; ripe bananas 35/-; lemons, scarce; quinces to 3d; cucumbers 4/- to 9/- dozen; cauliflowers to 7/- dozen; cabbages 1/- to 2/- dozen; parsnips 9/- to 21/- dozen; carrots 7/- to 9/dozen.

General.—Sales for the week include second-hand iron, big demand sft to 10ft; three riled surrounds; quantity timber; two ship's sails; square and round galvanized tanks, sashes, doors, etc. Furniture. —Sales include chesterfield and Morris suites; China cabinets, .bedsteads and bedding. A special line of card tables, a ready seller. Hearth rugs, sofa squares, carpets, second-hand furniture, good stocks at our usual keen prices. BRAY BROS., LTD. Messrs Bray Bros., Ltd., Spey street, report as follows, for week ending 24th instant: — Fruit and Vegetables.—Dessert apples are still in heavy supply, with a limited demand for choice lines. Large size cooking apples have a better inquiry.. Consignments of tomatoes are still coming to hand, and considering the lateness of the season, the demand is good. Consignments of Island oranges and New Zealand lemons are expected to arrive for Tuesday’s sale. Supplies of dessert and cooking pears exceed the demand, and sales are slow. Cauliflowers, carrots and parsnips find a ready sale, but cabbage are almost unsaleable. Sydney oranges and grapes are now available. Prices for the week averaged as follows:— Apples, choice Delicious, Jonathon, Sturmers 6/- to 8/-; cookers, large to 6/6; others 3/- to 5/-; pears, choice Nelis and Coles to 4/-; cookers 2/6 to 3/-; oranges, Valencias 15/- to 16/6; tomatoes, local hothouse to 1/- lb, outdoor 2d to 6d lb; grapes, local 8d to 1/- lb, Sydney to 25/-; passions to 15/- case; bananas, ripe 15/to 25/- case; cabbage 1/- dozen; cauliflower 3/- to 6/- dozen; celery 3/- dozen; carrots to Id lb; cucumbers 3/- to 9/dozen; parsnips to l:ld lb; onions 5/- bag; potatoes 7/- cwt; honey, 51bs 3/6, lOlbs 6/-, 601b5.27/6. Furniture.—Showroom upstairs. We have a cabinet gramophone and 50 records which we wish to clear on behalf of a client for £lO or offer. This is a good instrument, and should be inspected by intending buyers at once. Bedstead and bedding at greatly reduced rates. All classes of bedding in mill-wool and kapok. We offer to furnish two rooms complete for £22 10/-, and three rooms complete for £3O. In both cases linoleum is included. Dining and kitchen chairs at 9/- and 8/respectively. Inspection invited. Business For Sale.—Home bakery business situated in main street, with complete range of utensils, two ovens, reasonable rental, price £55. We also have grocery, fruit and confectionery business available for sale. Bray Bros., Ltd. F. BOWDEN AND CO. Messrs F. Bowden and Co. report heavy supplies of apples and pears, and prices are ruling low for both. Oranges are off the market for the moment, but supplies of oranges will be to hand for Tuesday’s sale, also Australian Navels, grapes, lemons, North Island passion fruit and ripe bananas are on hand. Fresh shipments of mandarines, lemons and melons will be to hand on Tuesday. A few consignments of tomatoes are, still arriving. Wheat, oats and chaff are offering freely, sales for each line being good. Full stocks of bran, pollard, oatdust, sucrosine, crushed oats, etcetra, are on hand. Heavy consignments of prime table potatoes are coming to hand, but the demand is better and stocks are keeping about normal. Good consignments of carrots and parsnips are being received and prices are easier, other varieties of vegetables in season are plentiful and prices are ruling low. The week closed with prices ruling:— Apples, dessert 4/6 to 7/-, cookers 5/- to 6/-; mandarines, Sydney 20/- to 25/-, Fiji 15/-; lemons 25/-; oranges, Island 16/- to 22/6; bananas 13/- to 25/- case; pears 2/to 3/6; passion fruit 6/- to 11/6 half-case; tomatoes, ripe 24d to 6d, green lid lb. Vegetables, Produce, Etc. —Cauliflowers 1/3 to 4/-; leeks 2/-; cabbage 1/- to 1/6; red cabbage 1/- to 1/6; celery 6/- dozen; carrots 1-jd; parsnips Lid to lid; melons 2Jd to 2Jd; honey 6d lb; potatoes £5 10/to £6; straw £4; hay £5 to £5 3/-; chaff £5 5/- to £5 10/- ton; muttonbirds 84d to 9d bird; onions 6/6; swedes 2/- to 2/6; wheat 22/6 to 24/6; oats 16/- to 18/-; crushed oats 12/6; oatdust 6/-; pollard 11/-; bran 10/-; sucrosine 18/- bag. Poultry.—Hens-1/4 to 2/11; grit 1/- to 2/6. Ferets 5/- to 11/- each.

Pigs.—Weaners 14/- to 25/-, being a very choice lot. We are cash buyers bacon pigs at current market rates, rail paid to Invercargill. Dairy Cows. —£12 10/-, 2 at £ll, £6, £3 15/-. Covers 15/6 to 18/6. Horses.—£27, £27, £l5 10/-, £8; dray £l5 5/-; drill £l5; horse clippers 15/-; collars and hames 25/- to 30/-; leading chains 25/-; covers 35/- to 38/6. Mutton. —The usual large supplies, and all sold to the highest bidder, realizing: Legs s£d to 6d, shoulders 3d to 3Jd; loins 2d to 2Jd lb. The usual quantity will be sold on Wednesday and Saturday next.

Timber.—Large quantities of all kinds of sawn timber on hand, suitable for fences, stables, sheds and cowbyres, selling at 11/to 14/- 100; fencing posts, totara £7 to £7 10/-, Broadleaf £7 to £7 10/-; stakes 30/to .45/-; droppers 12/- to 14/- 100; strainers 6/- to 10/- each. Large quantity second-hand timber sold at Saturday’s sale, prices varying according to variety and condition; sashes realized from 2/6 to 4/6; doors 10/- to 14/-. each'. .

General, —Buiek car £7O; skylights 30/-; gentleman’s bike £4 5/-; Walker grate 10/-; mauls 10/-; second-hand roofing iron 1/6 to 2/-; second-hand rabbit traps 13/6 dozen; casks and barrels 6/-; wheelbarrows 35/-; Sidebotham rabbit traps 22/-; Dinkum W.S. traps 26/6; pegs 1/9; nets 8/dozen; English roofing iron, barb, Nos. 8, 9 and 10 fencing wire; rabbit and fowl netting; Cyclone and sheep netting at lowest market rates; tea 2/6 lb. THE RIALTO. Messrs William Todd and Co., Ltd., report the following sales at their weekly market on Saturday, May 24 :— Pigs.—Good demand for stores. Weaners easier in price. Small weaners 5/- to 10/-, medium 11/- to 16/0, well-grown 17/6 to £1 4/6; stores, small £1 3/6 to £1 17/-; larger £2 to £2 3/6; cows £3 10/-, £3 12/6; boar £1 2/6. Poultry: Hens 1/2 to 1/9; heavy breeds 1/11 to 2/9; roosters 1/6 to 2/5, heavy

breeds 2/6 to 3/10, White Leghorn pullets 4/-, laying pullets 7/9 to 8/6. Ducks 2/td 2/9. Geese 3/5 to 4/7. Ford car £11; Renault car £lO. Bacon Pigs.—Supplies fairly heavy, market firm, prime baconers to 1601 b weight 7d lb.

Produce. —Table potatoes—market oversupplied, demand easier, prime quality £5 10/- to £5 15/- ton, inferior 4/- cwt; chaff £5 to £5 5/-; straw' £3 15/- to £4; clover hay £4 15/- to £5 10/-; oats 15/- to 16/-; wheat 20/- to 23/6; barley 21/-; oatdust 5/-; sorrel 6/-; pollard 11/6; bran 11/-; sucrosine 18/6; Moose Meal 20/-; Moose Nuts 17/6; Poaka pig food 16/6; Moa poultry food 16/-; rock salt 7/6; molasses 11/6; meat meal 12/6; fowl grit 2/6; crushed oats 12/6 to 14/-; crushed peas 24/6. Miscellaneous.—Barb-wire 22/6 to 25/6 cwt; No. 8 galvanized wire 18/-; fowl netting 11/6; rabbit netting 18/6; 6ft netting 22/-; sheep netting 14/- to 18/-; totara posts £7 to £7 10/- 100; eawn timber 12/- to 14/- 100; stakes 25/- to 40/-; split stakes 15/- 100; droppers 12/- to 14/-; military saddles £4; draught collars 47/6; cow covers 16/-; horse covers 25/- to 37/6; plunge baths £3 5/-; portable boilers £4; kauri washtubs £2 15/-; rabbit traps (Kiwere) 26/6 dozen; pegs 1/9; Ceylon tea 51b boxes 12/6, 401 b chests 2/3 lb; honey, 21b jars 1/6, 51b tins 3/-; mutton birds Bld to 9 Id.

Vegetables.—Cabbage 1/6 to 2/- dozen; cauliflower 4/-; carrots 8/- cwt; parsnips 12/-; beetroot 2d lb. THE SHAREMARKET. SATURDAY’S TRANSACTIONS. (Per United Press Association). Auckland, May 25. Sales on 'Change: Wilson’s Cement 45/-; Kauri Timber 13/-; Devonport Ferry 22/-; Westport Stockton Coal 1/8; Bank of New Zealand 58/9. Wellington, May 25. Salas on ’Change: Bank of New Zealand 58/6; New Zealand Farmers Fertilizer 18/-. Dunedin, May 25. Sale on ’Change: Mount Lyell £.l 9/cum. div. LONDON WOOL SALES. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) London, May 23. At the wool sales 6272 bales were offered including 4202 New Zealand. About 5740 were sold. There was a medium offering of crossbred slipes, with a strong general demand. Prices were very firm. New Zealand greasy crossbreds “E.J.R./G,” 12Jd and 12d, “Whanakino” 12Jd and 12Jd, “Tahora” llfd and lid. New Zealand scoured “Grays Hills” combing 261 d, pieces 25d, “Irishman’s Creek,” super-halfbred, combing 25d, pieces 23d; greasy, “Mangahuki” 13d; slipes New Zealand Refrigerating Company’s C.M.C. Eclipse 'halfbred lambs 13-ld, threequarterbred 13d. LONDON MARKETS. Weekly quotations for the undermentioned classes of frozen meats based on actual sales of wholesale quotations of carcases of mutton or lamb or quarters of beef delivered at Smithfield market and/or ex London stores, have been compiled as. follows by the Quotations Committee, Smithfield. To arrive at equivalent ex-ehip values, a farthing per lb should be deducted from the prices quoted below. The quotations are an average for the week and are not for selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of bulk of shipments now on offer. New Zealand Sheep: North Island crossbred wethers and maiden ewes 48-561bs 4gd, do. 57-641bs 4?d, do. 65-721bs 4Jd. New Zealand Lambs: Canterbury, 361te and under BJd, do. 37/421bs 7Jd, do. 43-50 lbs 7|d; other South Island brands 361 b and under Bgd, do. 37-421bs 7gd, do. 43-501bs 7Jd; selected North Island brands 361bs and under 8 Jd, do. 74d, do. 43-oOlbs 7|d, do. second quality average 311bs other North Island brands first quality 361 be and under B|d, do. 37-421bs 7id. Australian Lambs: Victorian second quality 361bs and under 7d; other States second quality 361bs and under 6<d. Argentine Lambs: First quality . 361bs and under 6jd, do. 37-421bs sjd. • Argentine Chilled Beef: Ox fores 1602201bs 3?d, do. ox hinds 160-2201bs 6«d. New Zealand Pigs: First quality 60lOOlbs Bd, do. 101-120Ibs 7d. Other meats unchanged. Friday’s closing prices:— Cotton: June shipment 8.14 d lb. Rubber: Para 7id lb; Plantation and smoked 6 15-16 d lb. Jute: May-June shipment £24 5/- ton. Hemp: None offering. Copra: May-June shipment South Sea £2O 7/6 ton; Plantation and Rabaul £2O 10/-. Linseed Oil: £4l 10/- ton. Turpentine: 39/3 cwt. DAIRY PRODUCE QUOTATIONS. The South Island Dairy Association, Ltd., has received the following market report from the New Zealand Produce Association, Ltd., London: — Markets very dull and no demand. Butter: 127/- to 130/-; unsalted 138/- to 146/-; Danish 132/-. Cheese: White 80/- to 81/-; coloured 86/- to 87/-.