COMMERCIAL

Southland Times, Issue 21098, 2 June 1930, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

LOCAL MAKKETS

BRAY BROS., LTD.

Messrs Bray Bros., Ltd., Spey street, report as follows for week ending 31st instant:—

Fruit and Vegetables: A consignment of Island oranges arrived during the week, and as the condition was indifferent, low prices ruled. A shipment of bananas is now due, and will be sold on arrival, probably to-day. Lemons arc at present very scarce, but a consignment is expected at an early date. The market is well-supplied with Valencia oranges, and low prices are ruling. Apples are still in heavy supply and sales are slow. Dessert pears are in heavy supply. Prices for the week averaged as follows:—Apples, choicp Delicious, Jonathon and Stunners 6/6 to 8/6 case; others 5/- to 6/-; cookers, large 5/6 to 6/-; pears, dessert 2/6 to 3/6 half-case; dumps to 8/-; cookers 2/- to 4/-; oranges, Island, 15/- to 19/- case; Valencias 11/to 15/-; lemons, N.Z., to 31/- case; grapes 18/- case; tomatoes, hothouse, to 7d lb, outdoor Id to 4d lb; quinces to 21d lb; cabbage Id lb; cucumbers 3/- to 8/- dozen; parsnips to Hd lb; onions to 4/6 bag, potatoes 6/6 cwt; honey, 601bs 27/6, lOlbs 6/-, 51bs 3/6. General.—For Sale: Fruit, confectionery, soda-fountain, ice-cream business, situated in main street, with living rooms attached. Stock and plant at valuation, approximately, £l4O, plus value improvements £6O. Reasonable rental. We also .have other businesses for sale, and invite inquiries. Bray Bros., Ltd. Furniture.—Showroom upstairs. Steady demand for all furnishing lines. Three rooms furnished completely, including linoleum, for £3O. Two rooms for £22 10/-; dining chairs 9/-; kitchen chairs 8/-; child’s high chairs, with tray 21/-; duchesse chests from £3 12/6; betlsteads from £3 15/-, including wire mattress. Inspection invited. F. BOWDEN AND CO. Messrs I*’. Bowden and Co., report apples in over supply and prices are ruling exceptionally low. Full supplies of pears are coming to hand, but stocks arc not above normal, and from now on supplies will be expected to ease off and prices firmer. Ripe bananas, lemons, mandarines, grapes and Island oranges are available in small quantities. Only a small shipment of Samoan bananas are advised ex Maui Pomare and these will be sold to-day. Navel oranges will be arriving towards the end of the week. Cabbages are etill selling in buyers’ favour. Cauliflowers are short of requirements, full supplies of all other vegetables in season are coming forward, prices remaining reasonable for buyer and seller. Table potatoes are coining to hand more freely, but demand is better and most lines are finding buyers at late rates. Full stocks of oats, bran, pollard, oatdust, wheat, crushed oats, swedes, onions, mutton birds, etc. are on hand. The week closed with prices ruling:— Pears, dessert 3/- to 4/-, cookers 2/6 to 2/9; grapes IS/- half-case; bananas, ripe 27/- to 30/-; apples, dessert 5/- to 7/6, cookers 6/6; lemons 25/-; mandarines 25/-; oranges, Island 14/- to 17/6 case; tomatoes, local hothouse 9d, outdoor 2.}d to 31 d lb. Vegetables, Produce, Etc. —Jam melons 2]d to 21d, carrots Id to lid, parsnips lid, beet 21d, honey 6d lb, wheat 22/6 to 23/6; pollard 11/6; oatdust 5/-; onions 5/6 to 6/6; swedes 2/3 to 2/6; crushed oats 12/6; bran 11/-; oats 16/- to 18/-; sucroeine 18/- bag; celery 3/- to 4 6/-; cauliflowers 2/6 to 3/3; cabbage 1/- to 1/3 dozen; potatoes £5 10/- to £6 10/-; straw £4; hay £4 to £5 5/-; chaff £5 5/- to £5 10/- ton. Pigs.—Purebred Tamworth weaners 11 to guineas each, weaners 13/6 to IS/-; ferrets 15/-. We arc cash buyers of bacon pigs at full market rates, rail paid to Invercargill. Dpiry Cows: £l3, 3 at £ll 10/-, £7. Milk cans 15/-. Covers 14/6 to 17/6. ■ Horses: £l9 5/-, £l2, £9 5/-, £7 5/-, £4 12/6; saddle, £4; harness £3, £1 10/-; spring cart £8 10/-; trees 20/-; chains 3/-; covers 28/- to 38/6. Mutton was in better demand and showed a slight improvement in prices, loins realizing 2d to 21d, shoulders 3d to 31d, legs 6d lb. The usual supplies will be to hand on Wednesday and Saturday next. Timber, enormous.stocks of all varieties of sawn timber is on hand and sales continue to be extremely good, prices ruling 12/- to 14/- 100; totara posts £7 10/-; broalleaf posts £7 to £7 10/-; stakes 30/to 45/-; droppers 12/- to 14/- 100; strainers 7/- to 10/- each. A large quantity of second-hand timber was sold on Saturday at satisfactory prices. Doors 15/-, sashes 2/- to 20/- each. Tubs 27/6; copper 10/-. Clearing Sale.—On account of Mr T. Whittaker of Wainiatua, attracted a good attendance of buyers, and prices realized were most satisfactory, the vendor being highly pleased with results. • General.—Rock salt 7/6; drums 2/- to 6/-; barrels 6/-; lamp 35/-; wheelbarrow 35/-; Sunbeam car £5; canary and cage 5/6; second-hand rabbit traps 12/6; Dinkum traps 26/6, Sidebothams 22/-; pegs 1/9; nets 8/- dozen; English roofing iron; barb, Nos. 8, 9 and 1.0 galvanized 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 31. Pigs.—Weaners 9/6 to 12/-, well-grown 14/- to 19/-, small stores 16/- to £1 5/6; stores £1 10/- to £1 18/-;-porkers £2 1/to £2 10/-. Poultry.—Hens 1/1 ,to 2/-, heavy breeds 2/3 to 5/-. Brown Leghorn pullets 5/- to 5/5; Minorca pullets 4/9, White Leghorn pullets 6/- to 8/2; Rhode Island Red pullets 7/6 to 8/3. Geese 4/9 to 6/-. Ducks 2/2 to 3/3; drakes 2/3 to 2/6. Yearling heifer £4. Motor truck £lO. Bacon Pigs.—Supplies good, demand steady at 7d per lb for bacon weights. We receive every day except Saturday. Produce. —Supplies equal- to demand, prime quality £5 10/- ton; chaff £5 to £5 5/- ton; cow chaff 2/6 bag; clover hay £4 15/- to £5 .10/-; straw £3 15/- to £4; oats 15/- to 17/-; wheat 2.2/6 to 23/6; barley 22/6; oaldust 5/-; sorrel 6/-; Moose Meal 20/-; Moose Nuts 17/6; Meat Meal 12/6; rock salt 7/6; molasses 11/6; Sucrosino 18/6; crushed’ oats 12/6 to 14/6; crushed peas 24/6; Moa Poultry food 16/-; Poaka Pig food 16/6; fowl grit 2/6. Miscellaneous. —Barb wire 22/6 to 26/6 cwt; No. 8 galvanized wire 18/- to 20/6; fowl netting 11/6; rabbit netting 18/6; sheep netting 14/- to 18/-; 6ft netting 22/-; timber, all sizes 12/- to 14/- 100; stakes (sawn) 30/- to 40/- 100; split posts 15/- to 35/-; droppers 14/-; totara posts £7 10/-, broadleaf £6 10/-; plunge baths £3 5/-; portable boilers £4; kauri washtubs £2 15/-; riding saddles £4; draught collars 47/6; horse covers 25/- to 37/6; cow covers 16/-; muttonbirds BDI to 9}d; honey, 51b tins 3/-, 21b jars 1/6; Ceylon tea 51b boxes 12/6, 401 b chests 2/3 lb. Vegetables.—Cabbage 2/- dozen; cauliflower 6/-; beetroot lid to 2d lb; parsnips 12/- cwt; carrots 8/- cwt. D. W. McKAY, LTD. Messrs D. W. McKay, Ltd., Exchange Mart, Invercargill; report as follows :— Produce. —Table potatoes, supplies ' still coming forward in excess of the demand, buyers only purchasing in small quantities. Full supplies of feed chaff on hand, but the demand continues slow. Canterbury onions are firm in price owing to the sharp rise in Canterbury, values from now will steadily increase and good quality onions are difficult to obtain. Pollard, bran, oats, oatdust have a steady sale. Mutton-birds are available, kits all sizes and counts. Special price for quantities. Fruit. —Business has been somewhat dull in the fruit market during the week. Con-<

signments of apples have eased and stocks steadily clearing out of store. There ie no immediate firming in the market but this should automatically take place. Pears are in heavy supply. A few Fiji bananas arrived during the week, but met a poor demand. Island oranges also came forward but the condition was .mixed. Large projtortion of the fruit in a wasted condition. Samoan bananas are due- to sell to-day. Quinces are wanted, Sydney fruits are due by the Waikouaiti, consisting of mandarines, oranges, lemons, pic melons and graphs. There will be very few pines expected for some time as the condition of the fruit is ndt good enough to handle. Current prices are approximately as follows: —Apples, dessert 5/- to 10/6, cooking apples 4/6 to 7/6; pears .2/- to 5/- box, according to grade and quality; quinces to 3d; grapes 8d; ripe bananas 30/-; cauliflowers 2/6 to 7/6; carrots to 9/-; parsnips to 9/-. General. —Sales include saloon chairs (six left), galvanized corrugated iron, new shipment expected in about a fortnight’s time, second-hand iron, galvanized iron tanks, 400's, 600’s, second-hand ranges, hothouse glass—fair quantity left, opossum traps, mantles, etc. Furniture.—Fair sales including Wilton carpets, sofa squares, tapestry carpets, hearth rugs, special prices for above before balance. Bedsteads, child’s cots, blankets, China cabinets, Morris and Chesterfield suites. Second-hand furniture in good demand. THE SHAREMARKET. SATURDAY’S TRANSACTIONS. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, June 1. Sales on ’Change: Commercial Bank ot Australia (late sale Friday) 21/8; E.S. and A. Bank £6 10/-; N.Z. Guarantee Corporation (late sale Friday) 7/9; Farmers Trading 8/9; Mount Lyell 29/6; Colonial Sugar £4l 5/-. Wellington, Juno 1. Sales reported: N.Z. Guarantee Corporation ord. 7/10 and 7/10}; New Zealand Breweries £2 12/- (3 sales); Electrolytic Zinc pref. £1 7/3. Dunedin, June 1. Sale reported: Paper Mills 19/6 (late sale Friday). A RECORD PROFIT. (United Press Assn.—-By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, May 31. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company showed a record profit of £5,206,761 and the year’s dividend was 20 per cent. - RABBITSKIN SALES. London, May 30. At the rabbitekin sales 2650 were offered and 920 sold. Hatters sorts, good, declined 10 per cent, compared with March sales; low grades twenty, farriers stout pelted slightly easier than pelted which were neglected. LONDON MARKETS. Weekly quotations for the undermentiorued classes of frozen meats based on actual sales of wholesale quotations of carcasses 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-ship 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. (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, May 31.New Zealand Sheep: Canterbury and North Island selected crossbred wethers and maiden owes 57-641bs 4 3-Bd, ditto 65-721bs 4 3-8 d; North Island ditto 57-64 lbs 4}d, 65-721bs 4|d, ditto ewes 65-721bs 3d. Australian Sheep: First quality crossbred and/or Merino wethers 40-651bs 3}d, second quality ditto 30-551bs 3}d. Argentine Sheep: First quality crossbred wethers 48-641bs 4d, ditto G5-721bs 3 3-Bd, ditto over 721bs 3 Id. k Patagonian Sheep: Wethers and/or maiden ewes under 501bs 3 7-Bd, ditto 50601bs 3 3-Sd.

New Zealand Lambs: Canterbury 361bs and under 8 7-Bd, ditto 37-421bs 8.,d, ditto 43-501bs 7 7-Bd, ditto second quality average 331bs 7Jd, other South Island brands 361bs and under BJd, ditto 37-42 lbs Bd, ditto 43-501bs 7Jd; selected North Island brands 361bs and under 9d, ditto 37-421bs B:}d, .ditto 43-501bs 7 7-Bd, ditto second quality average 311bs 8 LBd; other North Island brands first quality 361bs and under Bld, ditto 37-421bs 7 7-Sd, ditto second quality average 311bs Bd. Australian Lambs: Victorian first quality 361bs and under 7]d, ditto 37-421bs 6:jd; other States first quality 36Ibs and under 63d, 37-421bs 61d. Argentine Lambs: First quality 361bs and under 7d, ditto 37-42 lbs 6d., ditto 43-501bs 6d. Patagonian Lambs: First quality 361bs and under (JJd, ditto 37-421bs 6 l-8d; ditto second quality average 301bs 6Jd. New Zealand Frozen Beef: Ox fores 1602201bs 3.1 d, ditto ox hinds 160-2201bs 5 3-8 d; Australian Frozen Beef: Ox crops under lOOlbs 3.1 d, ditto ox crops over lOOlbs 3 3-Bd, ditto ox hinds under 1601bs 5 1-Sd, ditto over IGOIbs 5 3-Bd. Argentine Chilled Beef: Ox fores 160-220 lbs 3}d; ditto ox hinds 160-2201bs 61d. Friday’s closing prices:— Cotton: July shipment 8.07 d lb. Rubber: Rara 7Jd. Plantation and Smoked 6 7-Bd. Jute: June-July shipment £23 12/6 ton. Hemp: None offering. Copra: June shipment South Sea £2O; Plantation Rabaul £2O 2/6. Linseed Oil: £43 ton. Turpentine 38/G. Messrs Dalgoty and Company, Limited, report having received the following advice from their head office, London, under date of the 30th instant:— London Dairy Produce Market. Cheese: Market steadier, quotations unchanged. London Rabbitskin Market. Offered 2665, sold 905. Furriers thin pelts practically unsaleable; early winter bucks and incoming rabbitskins par to 10 per cent..lower; pulling 5 per cent, to 10 per cent, lower; unpulled 20 per cent, lower, full racks 20 per cent, lower; kittens and suckers 25 per cent, lower. LONDON MEAT MARKETS. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having received the following advice from their head office, London, under date of the 29th instant: — New Zealand lamb market firmer, demand better owing to warm weather. New Zealand mutton market very weak, demand poor. New Zealand beef market nominal, demand nil. New Zealand Pork market weaker, demand nil. Australian lamb 'market unchanged, demand limited. Australian mutton market weaker, demand poor. New Zealand Prime Lamb: 28/361bs Canterbury 83d, North Island 83ci ■ 36/421bs Canterbury Bd, North Island 74d; second quality Canterbury Bd, North Island 7Jd; 42/501bs Canterbury 7}d, North Island 7Jd. " New Zealand prime mutton 48/561bs Canterbury fid, North Island 4Jd; 56/641bs Canterbury 4-Jd, North Island 4jd; 64/721bs Canterbury 3?d, North Island 3|d. G.a.q. Australian lamb 28/361bs 6<jd. G.a.q. Australian mutton 40/601bs 3§d. F.a.q. Australian Mutton 30/551bs 7Jd. New Zealand prime ox beef, hinds s}d, fores 4 Jd. Argentine chilled beef, hinds 6d, fores 31-d. English and Dutch pork, 80/1201bs 9 hl. New Zealand porkers SQ/lOOlbs 7id, 100/1201bs 7d. London Dairy Produce Market. Butter market nil, we quote: Danish 130/- to 132/-; New Zealand finest salted

124/- to 126/-; Australian finest unsalted 122/- to 126/-, salted 122/- to 124/-; Australian g.a.q. 116/- to 120/-. Cheese: We quote. Australian coloured 74/- to 76/-; New Zealand white 80/- to 82/-, coloured 95/- to 105/-, white 94/to 104/-; Canadian coloured 80/- to 82/-. DAIRY PRODUCE MARKET. The South Island Dairy Association, Limited, has received .the following market report from the New Zealand Produce Association, Limited, London; — Butter: Slow 124/- to 126/-; Danish 132/-. Cheese: Steady. White 75/- to 76/-, coloured 81/- to 83/-.” I