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■ NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE REPORT. The -Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Co., Ltd., Stratford Branch report ns follows: On Tuesday, 21st inst., we held our usual fortnightly sale in our Stratford yards. Owing to the heavy rain on Monday night the yarding was small, only 427 head of cattle coming forward. There was a fair demand, and a good clearance was effected,- but wcaners wore hardly so brisk as usual. The following prices wore realised:— Weaner steers 1 10s for very small and inferior, 24s for fair quality, Ills for good, and up to .‘s9s for very good line; weaner heifers, good stuff made 235, 245, 25s and up to Ills for wellgrown stuff; mixed weaners 22s for medium, 25s 6d to 28s Cd for fair, 20-mouth heifers colored made from 55s to 565; 20-month steers in good demand from 67s Gd for fair to 72s for medium to 74s for good Hues; bulls mot in such good demand made 97s Gd'for small'toHoss for medium; store cows, not in such good demand, small and low conditioned 40s, 50s, 53s Gd, medium quality G2s Gd, 67s Gd, fair conditioned and well grown 765, 775, to 81s; forward cows 100 s, 115 s, 117 s Gd; fat cows up to 1425. We have placed a large quantity of stock privately during the past week, all classes of sheep being in good demand, also grown steers. Weaner steers 28s Gd to 3.1 s for fair quality, 35s for medium, to 36s for good; weaner heifers good 23s Gd, 21s to 255; mixed weaners good quality 30s ; 20-month stoer s fair quality 70s, 73s for medium and 75s to 80s for good lines; 20-month empty heifers 53s to G2s Gd; 21-year-old steers 105 s; bulls, heavies, 105 s to 110 s; lambs, culls 5s Gd to Gs, medium 8s Gd to 8s 9d, good from 9s 3d to 10s; f.m. ewes, small and low conditioned 9s to 10s,up to 11s for fair and 14s Gd for forward; 4 and 6-tooth wethers, store quality, IGs 9d.
Writing on March 9, concerning the new direct service from Hull, the Financial Times, London, says:— “In July last, the Hon. T. Mackenzie. High Commissioner for New Zealand, took up the question of establishing a direct service of steamers between New Zealand and Hull, and lias steadily pursued that subject since, personally seeing to cargo being available, both outward and homeward. His representations have now met with a favorable response, as the Now Zealand Shipping Company and Shaw Savill and Albion Company have agreed to inaugurate a monthly service of steamers between the Dominion and Hull, the first boat leaving New Zealand in April. This news will give great satisfaction at the port, where efforts are being made to establish direct trade with New Zealand. The population of the district lying within a certain distance of Hull numbers about ten millions, and is the most densely peopled part of England. The direct service will save a considerable sum in charges; and the delicate produce, such as butter and meat, and, it is hoped eventually, fruit—Hull being a special market for the last-named—will reach the port in a much better condition than could ho expected under existing circumstances.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2, 23 April 1914, Page 8
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