COMMERCIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 65, 9 November 1912, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

EXPORT OP H I DPS

(Per Press Association.)

Palmerston, November 8

A conference of representatives of the tunning industry from all over the Dominion was held here to-day. It was resolved to increase the price of leather hy a penny a pound. .It will make a difference to wholesale makers of audit 3s pei- dozen pair of boots, i'no reason for the increase is the scarcity of hides, owing to the quantity .wing exported. Hides are going chiefly to Vancouver, and the export trade is said to he almost exclusively in the hands of one firm, whose headquarters are at Auckland. Tanners suggest tliat the situation might be saved by an increase on the duty of imported boots; otherwise the local boot-making industry is seriously threatened.

The President of the Tanners’ Conference informed a Alunawatu Times’ reporter that it is not unlikely there will lie a further increase in the price of leather shortly, if hides do not become more plentiful or the suggested export duty placed on rawhides. Aew Zealand tanners required over four thousand hides per week. At the hide sales to-day ox hides jumped up by a penny per pound prices now being up to Bpi, equal to nearly £2 5i per hide. Cow-hides increased jd to pi, and fetched up to ipi, equal to nearly 30s each. Calfskins sold at 6s per sain. This is an advance of 3s on cowsidcs and ch on ox hides.

Nov.’ton King’s Weekly Report. At Urenui on Monday, 28th, there was a very heavy entry, all available pens being well filled. A large unmoor of springing heifers were yarded, bub being late in the season and of second quality did not meet with demand. Store cattle sold very readily, as also did empty heifers, the quality of which was very good. Prices obtained were as follows:—15- months heifers £2 16s to £3 Els 6d, . 15months steers (small) £2 to £2 14s 6d, 15-months mixed £2 10s to £2 14s, 2-year empty heifers- (coloured) £5 3s to £5 11s 6d and £4 11s 6d for a good well done lino of Shorthorns, 2 year steers (hit of colour) £3 19s to £4 Is 6d, 2Eyear bullocks £5 to £5 15s, store cows aged £2 9s to £3 3s 6d, good £3 11s to £4 ss, forward cows £4 10s to £5 5s 6d, fat cows £5 18s to £0 17s, fat heifers £5 ss, springing heifers from £3 15s to £B, according to quality, dairy cows from £1 2s 6d to £7 3s' (id, bulls from £2 5s to £6, mixed wethers and hoggets 16s, fat wethers (in wool) 19s, (snorn) 16s bo 16s 6d, pedigree Jersey hulls “Pukerangiora” 22gns, “Sir Tuck” Bgns, pedigree empty Jersey cow “Pellet” lOgns. At 'Toko on tho same day, store cows realised from £3 5s to £3 15s, empty 2-yr heifers £4 Is to £4 Bs, yearling steers £2 9s to £3 is, yearling heifers £2 10s to £3 Is, bulls £l, fat cows £5 19s, hoggets 12s 7d.

At Stratford on Tuesday there was a good yarding of cattle, the ifiajpi; rty Doing yearling to 15 no nth s’ caU tie. For the better class of these 1. had a good demand. Two very nice pens of well-grown 15 months Holstein heifers on account of Mr J. Chamberlain, realised £5 2s 6d and £-1 18s (id, and a choice line of Jerseys penned by Messrs Hansford Bros. Tariki, realised £6. Other prices were yearling to 15 months heifers £2 15s Gd to £2 19s 6d and £3 -!s to £3 11s for best, 15 months steers £2 18s to £3 8s Gd, small £2 5s Gd to £2 Ss Gd, yearling bulls £1 lUs to £2 15s, Shorthorn dairy bull £7 10s, empty 2 year coloured heifers £5 4s to £5 10s, grades £4 4s to £4 10s Gd, store cows good £3 15s to £4 10s, forward cows £4 18s to £5 2s Gd, fat cows £5 18s to £6 Os Gd, aged and poor cows' £1 16s to £3. In the dairy pens, there was a very large entry of cows and heifers, with a good attendance and demand for good quality.' Cattle: Best heifers brought up to £9, and cows up to £ll. At the Stony lliver yards, on Wednesday, 30th nit., there Was an extra heavy yarding of all classes, and a very representative attendance of buyers from all parts of tlm district. Bidding throughout was very good, everything with the exception of aj few yearlings being cleared during the ' sale at the following rates:—Good j store cows £3 12s Gd to £4 7s Gd, j forward cows £1 13s Gd to £5 5s Gd, j aged from £1 15s up to £3 3s, small fat cows £5 14s, springing cows and ! in milk to £7 2s Gd, bulls to £5 12s ! Gd, mixed yearlings £2 5s to £2 13s, j 15 months steers best £2 18s Gd to I £3 Bs, smaller £2 10s to £2 13s Gd, I very choice Jersey 15 months heifers' £5, grade 15 months heifers from £2; 15s Gd to £3 13s Gd, and a very good pen of Ayrshire.? realised £3 14s Gd, I coloured 2-ycar empty heifers from £5 to £5 Gs Gd, grades £4 2s Gd to £4 13s, 2.j year steers £5, 2 year coloured 'steers £3 I7s, store pigs £2, slips £1 i Is Gd. i

At the monthly sale at Kaponga on Friday, Ist inst., there was a good entry of store cattle, and a fair lot of dairy heifers. Stores sold ' very briskly, but there was a poor enquiry for dairy stock, prices realised were: Empty 2-year heifers from £4 to £4 10s, yearling to 15 months steers £2 IGs (id to £3 Gs 6d, store cows from £3 8s Gd to £4 Bs, forward cows £4 to £5, bulls from £2 Is to £5. dairy cows from £6 to £9, springing heifers £G ss, fat wethers £1 Is. On Tuesday, at Raliotu, there- was a good entry with a large attendance of the public. Yearling to 15 months heifers (Jerseys) £3 19s Gd, grades £2 lOs to £3* 11s Gd, steers £2 ]()s to £3 7s, 2 year empty heifers £4 11s to £4 IGs, store cows £3 15s to £1 Bs, forward cows £5 3s, fat cows £6 Is to £7 ss, bulls from £3 to £G 10s, dairy cows up to £9, springing heifers £4 2s Gd to £5 15s, 3 year unbroken filly £7 10s.

Matthews, Bennett and Co.’s Report.

Messrs. Matthews, Bennett and Co. report a crowded yarding and a good attendance on Wednesday in spite of the very wet weather. We held a hull fair in conjunction with our ordinary weekly sale, and did fair business, selling most of our stock entered at the hammer. Prices were as follows:

Springing heifers £6 10s to £7 15s, small £1 to £5 ss, dairy cows £6 5s to £7 15s, old and unsound £2 15s to £3 10s, store cows £3 12s 6d to fM 7s Od, inferior £2 10s to £.3 ss, culls £1 to £1 10s. fat £6 ss, 15 month heifers £3 10s. yearling steers £2 18s to £3 Is, heifers £2 15s to £3 .3s, 2 to year steers £3 10s to £1 10s. hulls for dairy purposes £5 5s •to £S, others £2 5s to £3 7s Od, culls 15s to ■CI ss.

The .New Zealand l oan and Mercantile Agency Co., Limited and Reduced have received the following cablegram from their London house, under d’ta oth instant:—"Wheat: We quote 38s 3d c.i f.. Australian cargo. There is very little demand and (he outlook is discouraging. Wo quote per quarter c.i.f. New Zealand wheat, long-her-ried, 375. short-berried .36s Od. Oats: Wo quote Cartons 21s, Sparrowhills 23s 3d. The market is very dull. Tallow: We quote present spot values for the following descriptions;—Good

million 39s 3d per cwt., good hoof Jss 6d, mixed 32s 6d. Tho market is quiet.

The number of sheep penned at/ho Burnside markets (Dunedin) on 'Wednesday'was 2910, tiie yarding on tbo whole being exceptionally good. Some real prime heavywciglus were forward, and, in point of quality, the entry was ou tno whole probably the finest Unit lias been seen at liuinside for some considerable time. Prices, wiiich Jiad been firming on the last two sale days receded a little—in some cases as much as is per head—wnile in other cases late values were maintained. The last sale of the day closed liriii at late values. Peal prime heavyweight wethers made from ois 9d to 33s 9d, and prime heavyweight ewes from 28s 9d to 30s 9d. Eignt or nine pons of shorn sheep were forward, and sold at up to 20s yd. Eighty-one lambs were penned. The quality was fairly good, and entries sold under good competition at an advance on last week’s values of 2s per head, making up to 21s 6d per head. One hundred and forty-seven head of cattle were yarded, the quality iu the whole being unsatisfactory, very few pens of prime bullocks being' forward. The number yarded proved quite insufficient for requirements. The local butchers were short of supplies, and the presence of a number of country butcliers had a further tendency 7 to harden values, the result being one of tho most buoyant sales experienced at Burnside for some time/ Prime bullocks made up to £l7 17s 6d, and heifers up to £ll 17s 6d.