COMMERCIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 58, 10 March 1913, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON WOOL SALES.

London. 9 March 9.

Yesterday’s wool sales were very animated. ■ There was keen Continental competition for fine merinos. Crossbreds were firm and unchanged. Prices realised were: Akitio, top 13£d average 12fd; Greenross, 131 d and llfd; Kaputone, 20Id; Puketoitoi, Isld and 141 d; Kiwi, 13d and 12d; R.S.T., 14d, and 12Jd.

HIGH COMMISSIONER’S REPORT. a ’ .-- r 1 London, March 8. Butter.—The market is firm for New Zealand with good demand owing to the loss of the Turakina, but the market is quiet and prices slightly weaker for other butters. , Choicest New Zealand per cwt, 1275, salted 120 s; unsalted Australian 120 s, Argentine 109 s, Danish 1335, Siberian 120 s.

Cheese.—The market' is firm with improved demand for best quality. Average price for week for finest New Zealand cheese per cwt, 61s 6d.

THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY. f, i ‘ . j ITS WEAK SPOT. Dunedin, March 10. Mr S,cott, secretary of the South Island Dairy Association, thinks that a campaigp should be started in Dunedin reviving the present weak spot in the dairying industry, namely, the quality of the milk supply. The Department of Agriculture, he says, will have to take more stringent measures. All factories should adopt the North Island plan of employing an official (paid for by factories) to go round and inspect the machines, premises and utensils. Inferior quality butter was traceable to home separation. Mr Bolt and other leading dairymen have been very outspoken about this, and their contentions have been proved up to the hilt.