COMMERCIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 31, 11 May 1916, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

• ’•s The Department of Agriculture, Industries and Commerce lias received tiie following .cablegram* dated London, May 6, from the High Commissioner for New Zealand : Butter.—The market is very firm. Danish is firmer at 168 s to 1725; the market for New Zealand is stronger for both salted and unsalted; prices ,6:5s to 1665. There is a steady market for Australian at 156 s to 160 s; Siberian, 126 s to 1345; Irish creamery, 1 160 sto 1625; Argentine, steady, 150 s jto 1525; unsalted, 156 s t,o 160 s. Cheese.—The market is very firm. Canadian, per cwt., 112 s to Ills; New Zealand, of which the supply falls short of the demand, is firm at highest quotation, 110 s to 112 s; English chcddar, 118 sto 1225; United States, 106; to IQBs. The estimated stocks of Canadian and United States cheese at London, Liverpool and Bristol on May 1 were 74,000 cases, against 87,000 at the same time last year; New Zealand and Australian cheese stocks on the same date, 13,000 crates, as against 19,000 last year.

NEWTON KING’S WEEKLY REPORT. At my Haymarket sale on Saturday last, I had a full yarding of mgs, chiefly weaners. There was a fair attendance of buyers present. Prices ruling were on a par with my previous sale, all lines being cleared at the hammer. I quote ;—Slips and weaners 6s to 15s 6d, small stores 17s 6d to £1 2s 6d, medium stores £1 4s 6d to £1 13s, good stores £1 19s to £2 /s, pedigree boars £3 5s to £4 4s, sows from £2 5s to £4 10s.