Commercial CITY MARKETS

Southland Times, Issue 24839, 3 September 1942, Page 6

Commercial CITY MARKETS

Problem Of Outlet For Oats Spring-like conditions have prevailed during the past week and there has been a noticeable growth in the pastures. Lambs are beginning to make their appearance in the country, but the general lambing is due to take place next week. Wheat.— Retail deliveries of seed wheat are going out. Farmers would be well advised to get the grain into the ground early as this will mean an earlier harvest. Oats.—The market is lifeless and merchants are finding difficulty in obtaining an outlet for stocks on hand. The Government has the position in hand and is endeavouring to do sometihng about the stored stocks. Seeds.—Business in all lihes is very quiet. There are wholesale Inquiries for mother Montgomery red clover. The export trade with England is at a standstill at present and America is Interested only in odd lines of Chewings fescue. Potatoes.—There is a shortage of seed potatoes, but merchants are endeavouring to overcome the difficulty by getting table potatoes released to growers with an area of one acre and over. It is not thought that the department will raise any obstacles to the release of table potatoes as seed in bona fide cases. COOKING APPLES FINISHED Substantial supplies of Sturmer and Delicious apples have come forward this week. Only small consignments of Granny Smiths can be expected for the remainder of the season. Cooking apples are now finished. Supplies of pears are arriving regularly. A small shipment of bananas arrived at the week-end. The condition was decidedly poor and a large proportion of the bananas had to be repacked. Oranges and lemons are again unprocurable. Carrots are very plentiful and slow of sale. Cauliflowers are a little more plentiful. Cabbages are in little demand and are commanding only low prices. Wholesale quotations are: —Cabbages, 4/6 to 5/6 a sack; cauliflowers, 8/- to 12/- a sack; carrots, Id per lb; parsnips, 2d per lb; swedes, 1/6 to 2/- a sugar bag. EGGS AND SEPARATOR BUTTER Retail egg prices this week ranged from 1/6 to 1/8 a dozen and wholesale were 1/5 to 1/6. Separator butter was quoted at from lOd wholesale and from 1/- retail, according to quality. BURNSIDE SALE (P.A.) DUNEDIN, September 2. The number of fat cattle penned at Bumside today was 330 and all classes met with a ready sale. The market opened firm and there was a general Improvement as the sale progressed. Extra prime bullocks brought up to £23/2/6, prime £lB/7/6 to £2O/2/6, medium £l6/12/6 to £l7/17/6, light £ll/7/6 to £l2/17/6, extra prime heifers to £l4/17/6, prime £lO/12/6 to £l2/12/6, medium £9/12/6 to £lO/7/6. light £7/12/6 to £9/2/6, extra prime cows to £l6/12/6, prime £9/2/6 to £lO/17/6, medium £7/12/6 to £B/12/6, light £5/7/6 to £6/7/6. The demand for good-class fat wethers was firm and medium sorts were better by from 1/- to 2/- a head. Ewes were firm, being 2/- better. Medium sorts showed a further improvement. Prime heavy wethers made up to 46/-, prime 39/6 to 42/-, medium 35/6 to 37/6, light 30/- to 32/-, prime heavy ewes to 33/9, prime 29/- to 31/6, medium 27/6 to 28/6, light 17/6 to 19/-. In the store cattle section a pen of three-year-old steers made £ll/5/- and cows from £4/8/- to £5/6/-. In the vealer section the best runners made up to £7/4/-. Suckers could be quoted from £4/17/- to £6/7/6.

ADDINGTON MARKET (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, September 2. Store ewes and lambs sold well at Addington today. Wethers and hoggets were easier, fat sheep maintained their values, fat cattle lost last week’s advance, vealers and baconers were dearer, but porkers dropped substantially on the high rates of last In the store sheep yarding many hoggets failed to reach reserves, the highest price being 36/- for a pen of open-woolled ewes. Another ewe line sold at 28/10. Wether hoggets made 23/3. There was keen competition for a line of ewes and lambs which made up to 21/6, all counted. Others made up to 17/4. Most of the ewe offering was passed in. One line of sound-mouthed ewes in lamb to Southdown rams made 24/6, others from 15/9 to 20/9. The fat cattle market was keen from the outset, but the improvement of 15/- a head recorded last week was, not maintained. The yarding included several prime lines and these averaged £2O/10/- to £2l/10/8 a head. The best beef made from 42/6 to 45/- per 1001 b, good 40/6 to 42/6, medium 37/6 to 40/-, ordinary down to 34/-. The top price was £26/17/6. Prime heavy made from £lB/10/- to £2l. Th best fat wethers ranged from 40/- to 44/-, tops to 49/-, the best ewes from 30/to 33/-, tops to 38/-. Some outstanding pens of fat hoggets sold at up to 48/-. CLEARING SALE AT BRYDONE The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., Gore, reports having held a satisfactory sale at Brydone on account of Mr Charles Livingstone. The stock was brought forward in good condition and the demand was sound. In the sheep section two-tooth ewes realized 40/-, four-tooth sorts brought 42/-, and six-tooth and eighttooths were sold at 39/6 and 38/6 respectively. Full and failing-mouth ewes brought up to 28/-, ewes and lambs realized 19/- and wether hoggets sold at 23/-. Cows sold at £l4/10/-, £ll, £B, £7/10/-, £7, down to £6/10/-, and heifers and calves realized £3/10/-. A six-year-old draught mare brought £36, which is probably the season’s record for a working horse. Other draught horses sold at £l5 down to £7 and hacks brought £ll and £6. Various sundries sold well, including sheaf stacks at £l4, £l7 and £l9, a double-furrow plough at £l6, a spring cart at £l5, a separator at £2B and a ridger at £l3. FIXED VEGETABLE PRICES (P.A.) WELLINGTON, September 2A retail price of 6d per lb has been fixed by the Price Tribunal for New Zealandgrown onions.harvested on or before November 1 this year. This action has been taken to facilitate the orderly marketing and distribution of the available supplies, and the price fixed will operate throughout the Dominion. The order fixes the maximum prices chargeable by growers as follows:— South Island, £3l; North Island, £32/10/-, both sacks in on trucks, growers’ country stations. Provision has also been made in the order for the maximum prices chargeable by distributors and also for margins of profits by wholesalers in respect to sales to retailers. The Price Tribunal also announced that adjustments had been made in the prices fixed last month for pumpkins, kumeras and spring carrots. The price of pumpkins has been advanced from 4d to 5d per lb retail and of kumeras from s>/ z d to 6d. Prices for spring carrots are 4’,ad in the North Island and 4d elsewhere. The prices of main crop carrots is unaltered. •STOCK EXCHANGES DUNEDIN. — Sale on ’Change: Okarito Mining 3d. Sales reported: Consolidated Goldfields 7/-;-Nokomai Gold sd; Westport Coal £l/5/3. AUCKLAND. — Sales: South British £3 2/6; Bank of New Zealand £l/19/6 (2); New Zealand Insurance £3/10/9; Kaiapol (cont.) 8/-; Wellington Wool (pref.) £7 12/6; Australian Consolidated Industries £2 7/-, £2/6/9; Consolidated Goldfields 7/1; War Loan 1953 £9l/15/-; Reid Rubber £1 1/6; Westport £l/5/3; Northern Steam (con.) Ud; Farmers’ Trading £l/0/3; Wilson’s Cement 17/2; Woolworths (N.Z.) 14/8; Woolworths (Sydney) 15/10; Mt. Lyell £1 6/6; Liberty Loan 1952-55 3 p.c. £99/10/-. CHRISTCHURCH. — Sales on ’Change: New Zealand Refrigerating (10/- paid) 9/6. Sales reported: Kaiapol Woollens (7/- paid, late Tuesday) 8/-; Australian Consolidated Industries £2/6/6; Otago Daily Times £2; Mount Lyell £l/6/4>/ z ; New Zealand Newspapers £l/13/-. WELLINGTON. — Sales: Stock 4 p.c. 195255 £107; Ballins Brewery 11/6, 11/5; Broken Hill £l/17/3; Woolworths Ltd. 15/9; Woolworths Holdtags 18/4; Mount Lyell £l/6/6.