NORTHERN FREEZING TRADE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 273, 8 February 1928, Page 12

NORTHERN FREEZING TRADE

HEAVY KILLINGS AT MOEREWA Press Association. KAIKOHE, To-day. Working to capacity to deal with N the heavy offerings of fat lambs coming forward, the Moerewa Freezing Works have been unable to handle fat cattle. During the months of December and January, 20,107 sheep and lambs and 326 fat cattle were railed from the Kaikohe and Okaihau railway stations. The bulk of the sheep and lambs being consigned to Moerewa, while the remainder and all the cattle were forwarded to Westfield. AUCTION NOTICES Messrs. Richard Arthur, Ltd., by order of the Waitemata Electric Power Board, will sell at their rooms, opposite the Town Hall, on Monday, February 27, at 11 a.m., a large brick building and a two-storeyed wooden dwelling at Takapuna. Messrs. Roberts and Co. will sell at the Chamber of Commerce, Swanson Street, a 5} acre block of unclaimed land situated at Henderson at the boundary peg of Waitemata and Henderson Counties. MINING NEWS MAORILAND. —The manager reports: “Driving was commenced during the week on the lode at No. 4 level, a distance of 5 feet being driven. The lode at present in 2ft. 6in. wide, composed of a mixture of pug and quartz on the footwall position, while the hangingwall portion is a compact body of clean quartz with a very nice class of favourable mineral and silica veins distributed through it.’’ OCCIDENTAL UNA.— The manager reports: The No. 4 reef in north end still maintains its good appearance and I will be very surprised if a good find of stone is not obtained here. The quartz broken continues to show strong dabs of gold. When breaking down the No. 1 reef in the south end we secured 251 b of specimen as reported and indications are very promising here. The dropper in the south end still looks well and at each breaking down dabs of gold can be seen in the quartz KU RAN Ul. —The manager reports: “The crosscut from the surface has been advanced a further 5 feet, which makes a total of 122 feet from the starting point. The drive on the leader in the footwall of the main reef has been extended a further 3 feet, making a total of 130 feet from the crosscut. There has been no quartz broken from this face for the week, but the country is all that could be desired for making gold, being interlaced with mineral seams and flintfes. There has been very little work done in these faces for the week on account of having to put the men cleaning out and re-timbering the crosscut that connects with the rise QD Barry’s reef.”

FRANKTON SALES PIG MARKET BRIGHTER RECENT PRICES MAINTAINED HAMILTON, To-day. The Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., reports that at the weekly stock sale at Frankton yards yesterday the yarding was smaller than at the previous sales. Prices lately ruling were in most cases maintained. Beef, firm; quality offered, plain. Breding ewes, good competition; quality not good enough to realise top values. Pigs were in much better demand, baconers and porkers advancing from 7s to 10s a head. Store pigs did not advance correspondingly. Beef.—Heavy fat cows, £7 5s to £7 3 6s; fat cows, £ 6 to £6 14s; lighter, £5 5s to £5 11s; unfinished, £4 5s to £4 12s. Good framed store cows, £ 210 s to £2 15s; others, £1 10s to £2. Sheep.—Fat ewes, 12s 6d to 15s 3d; fat lambs, 20s 4d to 21s sd; forward lambs. 17s: two-tooth ewes, 28s 6d; breeding ewes, mixed ages, rough condition, £l. Pigs.—Heavy baconers, £2" 14s to £3 18s; light. £2 6s to £3 10s; heavy porkers, £2 4s to £2 9s; light, 33s to 88s; slips, 12s to 18s; best weaners, 10s to 12s 6d; others, 5s to 7s.

WELLINGTON GAS COY. BUSINESS INCREASING FURTHER PRICE REDUCTION (Special to THE SUN.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. “The company has been in existence 58 years,” stated the chairman, Sir Harold Beauchamp, at the annual meeting of the Wellington Gas Company, held to-day, “and has never, I believe, been in a sounder position.” The balance-sheet showed a very satisfactory position, net profits being £2,-98 greater than last year. “In accordance with _ our usual practice of reducing the p: ice of gas as far as possible,” said the chairman, ‘ a further reduction of twopence a 1,000 cubic feet was made on January 3. That reduction will immediately benefit our consumers by £4.750 per annum. We have made eight reductions since August, 1922, a total of 21d a 1,000 cubic feet, which, based on the present consumption, would mean an annual saving to consumers of not less than £49,000. “The last reduction in the price of gas is justified by the increased profit to which 1 have just referred. There has been a further rise m the price of coal, and this, of course, has increased the cost of manufacture. The present price of coal is 120 per cent, greater than it was in 1916. The increase in the gas consumption is the largest recorded. I may say that during the past three years the consumption has increased £0 per cent, and during the past five years we have added 5,300 new consumers, fixed 7,500 cookers and laid 60 miles of irfains.” FRANKTON STOCK SALE Dalgety and Coy. report on their weekly stock sale held in the Frankton saleyards yesterday as follow: Theer was a small yarding of fat cattle. Late rates were fully maintained. Young prime cows and heifers made from £6 5s to £8 10s; light moderate quality fsom £5 5s to £6 7s 6d; inferior quality cows made from £3 to £4 9s; vealers, best, from 35s to 50s; others to 30s. There was a small yarding of fat cows, which made up to £3 14s; dairy cows, £4 5s to £4 10s for moderate quality. A yarding of about 2,500 sheep met with a fair demand. Fat sheep sold at late rates. Medium-sized late shorn two and four-tooth wethers made 18s 6d; 54 cull ewes, 13s 9d; a pen of wooly lambs (small), 11s 9d; 89 lambs, 13s 7d; 99 wether lambs, los 2d; 189 5-year-old ewes, 19s; 92 ditto. 18s lid; 170 5-year-old ewes, 16s 9d; 166 mixed aged ewes, 16s sd; 91 ditto, 15s 6d; 154 mixed aged ewes, 19s 6d; SI cull ewes, 9s lid; 64 full and failing mouth ewes, 14s; 57 two and fourtooth small ewes, 20s; 34 mixed aged ewes, 14s 6d. Fat pigs improved in value. Stores sold at late rates. BUTTER AND CHEESE A. S. Paterson and Coy., Ltd., report receipt of the following cable from their London principals:— “Butter, quiet, 1625; cheese, steady.

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