COMMERCIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 17, 18 January 1913, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

RECORD FIGURES

WELLINGTON EXPORT OF WOOL

AND FLAX

Nearly eighteen thousand more bales of wool and flax were handled by the Wellington Harbour Board during the four weeks ending on the 6th hist, than in the corresponding period hftiast year. This, said the chairman of the Board (Mr. R. Fletcher) to a ‘Now Zealand Times’ representative yesterday, is a record for the period. Comparison between the number of bales received by the Board from the railways during the respective periods is made in this table: — 1911-12. 1912-13. Woof (bales ... 21,466 37,566 Flax (bales) ... 2,996 4,619 Totals ... 24,462 42,215 The actual increase.on the totals was thus 17,753 bales. In a reference to the great rush of wool which has so severely tested the resources of the Board of late, Air. Fletcher said that they now had the back of, it broken, and were able to cope quickly with all that might bo sent along.

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.’s Report.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Limited and Reduced, Stratford Branch, report as follows : ■

On Tuesday, 14th inst., we held our usual fortnightly sale hi our Stratford yards, when there was a full*yarding and a large attendance of buyers, bidding on all cattle yarded being exceptionally keen. We quote prices as follows :—Mixed weaners 25s to 31s 6d, Shorthorn weaker heifers 30s to 325, Jersey and Holstein heifers up to 37s 6d, 15 to 18 month steers 59s up to 84s for well grown cattle', yearling to 16 month empty heifers 55s to 72s 6rl for ShortWh sorts, coloured heifers up to 87s 6d, 2 year heifeis shewing Jersey-Holstcin strains up to 110 s, 2 to 2'i year steers 85s to Sss, springing heifers 105 s, store cows, young anil Ir, good condition realised from 60s to 85, 5, cows in forward and fat condition from 100 s to 1255, hulls, small, 72s 6d to 177 s 6d for large good condition hulls.

During the week we have sold privately a large amount of stock at satisfactory prices, from which wo quote as follow's:—Lambs, shorn 9s to 10s, in wool up to 11s 6d; hoggets,, shorn, 13s to 14s Gd; 2-tooth wethers, I3s to,lls ; 4-tooth wethers, 15s up to 17s 6d for fats; 2,4, and 6-tooth ewes, mixed, 14s 6d; -2-tooth eaves, 15s; fat ewes, 14s Gd; ew6s and lambs, 19s to 21s; weaners, mixed, 30s; 15 to 18 month steers, up to 72s 6d; 15 to 18 month empty heifers', G7s Gd; 2 to 2) year •heifers, showing Jersey-Holstein cross are selling up to 107 s Gd; 3 to 3) year bullocks, 105 s to 120 s. Newton King’s Wcskiy Report. On Friday, 10th instant, at Waiwakaiho, I had a fair entry and attendance. The enquiry throughout was good, most of the yarding being cleared at the following rates: Yearling steers £1 16s to £2 11s Gd, 2-year coloured steers up to £3 17s, 18-month coloured heifers up to £4 ss, empty 18-month heifers £2 18s to £3 6s, 2J-year heifers r.w.t). £4 11s Gd to £5 11s, bulls £4 15s to £6 7s, small £2 5s to £3 ss, dairy cows £4 15s to £7 10s, fat cows ‘ £5 11s, forward cows £4 to £4 15s, small or aged £2

4s to £3 ss, springing heifers to lOs to £0 Jos, small line of weancrs (few coloured steers) £1 9s, Vvged ewes >X KJd, f.rfi. ewes 8s 9d. At Urenui on .Monday 13th there was a good yarding and a representative attendance of buyers. Bidding throughout was good lor all lines, a very successful sale resulting. Empty 18-month heifers £3 is (it! to £3 ißs del, 18 to 20-mOntli steers (very good line) £3 Ids (Id, others £2 Ids to £3 Jo s lid, 2i-year heifers r.w.h. £4 8s del to £1 18s Gd, forward cows from £1 to £4 18s Od, store cows, aged, from £2 2s Gd to £3 I.ls, dairy cows to to £8 Ids, ageu £3, springing heifers from to to £7 2s Gd, 2)-year steers with a hit of colour £4 8s Gd to £4 12s Gd, stags £4, bulls' £3 10s to to 3s, cows and calves £4 14s, fat cows from to 13s to £G ils, 31-year bullocks £7 3s Gd, small 2-tootli wethers 11s 9cl, f.m. ewes Gs 8d to 9s Gd,

lambs 7s 2d to 9s Gd, store pigs 14s On the same day at Awatruia East I. hold a clearing sale on account of .Mr and Mrs It. Tobin. There was a splendid attendance of the public with a brisk demand throughout for the dairy herd, which sold as follows: Young dairy cows £d ds to £8 10s, aged £4 to’ £4 10s, hull £d Ids, forward empty cows £4 15s, 18-month empty heifers £4 ss, calves 19s to £1 Gs, sows £2 to £2 7s Gd, Awatuna factory shares 13s, s.f. plough £5. At llahotu on Tuesday, 14th inst.,

I had a very small entry* - which sold as follows: 16-month steers £3 to £3 6s, 2£-yt«ir heifers £4 17s, 18month heifers £3 10s, bulls £3 os to £7 11s, store cows £4 Is to £4 13s, aged cows. £2 Is to £3, weaner pigs

IDs Gd. Private sales for the week as follows: Lambs 9s Gd, • 2-tooth wethers 14s to 14s Gel, 2-tooth owes los, f.m. ewes 18s, dairy cows £G, fat cows £G to £7, 18-mdnth steers £3 Is to £3

10s, forward cows £4 17s Gd to £5, 21-year heifers r.w.b. £4 10s to £5, coloured ISrinonth heifers £4 10s, pedigree yearling Jersey bull £ls los, lulls £5 to £B. weaners from £1 os to £1 14s (ki.