OVERSEAS FRUIT MARKET

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 705, 3 July 1929, Page 12

OVERSEAS FRUIT MARKET

AVERAGE NET RETURN OF 12/6 A CASE The Auckland representatives of the New Zealand Fruit Control Board advise receipt of the following cable from the London office of the board: “Raranga shipment for Glasgow showed considerable waste. Prices for Statesman ranged from 15s to 18s; Jonathans, 12s to 15s. The Port Napier’s Rotterdam shipment arrived in good condition and the opening prices ranged from 14s to 17s net. “Account sales to date give the average net return at 12s 6d a case.”

POTATO MARKET FIRMER POSITION IN CANTERBURY Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. Potatoes continue to be the main interest in the grain and produce trade. The minor fluctuations that have featured the season almost from day to day still persist, and this week the turn has been toward an improvement. At the week-end “prompt” whites were quoted ,at £5 7s 6d, f .0.b., s.i., but yesterday sales were made at £5 10s. Today there are not many sellers at this figure. delivery has been sold at up to £5 17s Od, and August-September to £6 ss, about 2s 6d better than the preceding quotations. Values to farmers for nearby delivery are at £4 7s 6d, and for further afield at £4 ss. Dakotas are notably firm in comparison with whites, and up to £5 10s has been paid on trucks. The Katoa is now loading at port for the North. Her departure has been postponed from today until Thursday. The quantity at port at present is small. The Waipiata is due to sail on Saturday. Yesterday and today inquiries from Auckland have shown a decided increase. Stocks there are very light, a state of affairs that prevails at Lyttelton to a greater extent than usual at this time of the year. Shipments from port rip till the end of June aggregate 148,641 sacks, as follow:—Auckland, 60,246; Wellington, 46,356; Napier and Gisborne, 9,766; West Coast, North Island, 28,609; West Coast, South Island, 3,664. The total is about 10,000 sacks less than for the corresponding period last season. The only other product attracting a little interest is chaff. Owing to the wintry weather it has been in more request, and from £3 17s 6d to £4 a ton has been paid on trucks, or from £5 12s Gd to £5 15s, f.0.b., s.i. Oats show no change, and are quoted at 3s 5d for A grade Gartons, and 3s. 4d for B’s.

GOOD FRIESIAN YEAR OUTSTANDING RECORDS The calf club movement sponsored by the New Zealand Friesian Association is extending in Taranaki and other parts of New Zealand, says the report to be presented tomorrow afternoon at the annual meeting of the association in Auckland. Details of trophies and championships won during the past year are given in the report, and the membership of the association has now reached 703. During 1928 79 first class c.o.r.’s were gained by Friesian cattle under semiofficial tests, with an average production of 15,030.21 b of milk and 527,971 b of butter-fat. The certificates of record gained by Friesians now total 1,657, with an average production of 13,515.11 b of milk and 476.151 b of but-ter-fat. Two outstanding records established in the year were 25,453.81 b of milk and 1,055.251 b of butter-fat from Rosevale Queen Sylvia Triumph and 28,555.21 b of milk and 940.31 b of but-ter-fat from Rosevale Gla.dys Posch. Pareora Echo Blossom, 819.811 b fat, broke the senior two-year-old record for all breeds. Messrs. E. C. Banks, T. R. Eades, J. I. Royds and R. A. Wilson retire from the council this year.

FRANKTON STOCK SALE BRISK COMPETITION (From Our Oicn Correspondent) HAMILTON, Tuesday. At the Frankton saleyards today there was a good attendance of buyers, and competition was brisk. Sheep were penned in large numbers, while fair yardings of store pigs sold readily. The auctioneers report as follow: The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited—Good steers brought £l2 17s 6d to £ls 10s; lighter steers, £lO 30s to £ll 7s; fat cows, £8 15s to £9 7s 6d; lighter cows, £7 15s to £8 7s: light cows, £5 to £6 12s; fat wethers, 35s fid to 38s fid: ewes, to 28s; lambs, to 31s; good baconers, £3 Ss to £3 12s; light baconers and good porkers, £2 8s to £3 Is; light porkers, £1 19s to £2 ss. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited — Fat bullocks brought £l3 10s to £l4 ss; fat cows, £9 Is to £9 10s; lighter, cows, £5 5s to £6 10s: vealers, £2 to £2 10s; fat wethers, 37s fid to 395; heavy baconers, £3 4s to £3 11s; lighter baconers and heavy porkers. £2 5s to £2 18s; porkers, £1 16s to £2 2s. Dalgety and Company, Limited— There was a fairly large yarding of beef. The quality generally was really good and prices were better. We sold big second-class bullocks at £l3 10s. On account of W A. Wilson we sold a consignment of 15 young cows and heifers, which averaged £lO ss, the top making £ll 17s 6d; big runners made up to £5 7s Gd; ordinary fat cows, £6 15s to £S ss: light and inferior. £4 15s to £5 14s. There was a small entry of store cattle. We sold a pen of three-year steers at £7 2s 6d. Boner cows and weaner calves sold at late rates. There was a moderate yarding of sheep. Fat sheep were penned in good numbers and generally the quality was good. Prices were higher than late rates. Heavy prime wethers made up to 40s. On account of Messrs. Van Houtte and Nollett w© sold wethers at 38s 6d to 38s 9d; on account of Waikato Racing Club, fat wethers at 395. The fat ewes yarded were light and only sec-ond-quality and sold at 22s 4d to 25s 6d. Fat woolly lambs sold at 27s 6d. We sold the undermentioned store sheep: 274 4 and 6-tooth wethers, at 31s 6d; 250. 4 and 5-year ewes, in lamb to Romney rams, at 33s 6d; 60 4 and 5-year ewes, in lamb to Romney rams, 255; 18 2, 4 and 6-tooth, to Romney rams, 36s 6d. A fair yarding of dairy stock came forward, and good quality springers were sought after. Nice Jersey heifers, springing, £l2; later cal vers to £8 15s; Holstein cows, in milk, £9 ss; Holstein cows, close to profit, £lO 10s; bobby calves came forward in greater numbers. There was only a small yarding of fat and store pigs, which sold as under: Heavy baconers. to £4 2s; light, from £3 to £3 14s; heavy porkers, £2 to £2 ss; small stores, to 16s; good weaners, to 12s.