FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1050, 14 August 1930, Page 11

FRUIT AND PRODUCE

WELLINGTON MARKETS REPORT FROM BROKERS Laery and Company, Ltd.. Wellington, report present values as follow: Passions: Choice. Bs, 10s; others, 6s, 7s half-case. Lemons: Choice cured, 18s, 20s; others, 12s, 35s bushel. Tree tomatoes: Choice, 4s 6d, ss; others, uS, 4s half-case. Tomatoes: Choice hothouse, Is 3d, Is Gd; others, 9d, Is lb. Cucumbers: Choice hothouse, 15s, ISs; others, 10s, 14s dozen. Celery: Choice, 10s, 12s; others, ss, 7s banana case. Lettuce: Choice. 10s, 12s: others, ss, 6s banana case. Spinach: Choice, 9s, 12s; others, 6s, 8s banana case. Kumeras: Choice. Bs, 9s; others, 6s, 7s sugar bag. Cabbage: Choice Savoy. Bs, 10s a sack. Cabbage: Choice Drumhead, 7s. 8s a sack. Cauliflowers: Choice, 9s, Its a sack. Sprouts: Choice, 15s, 17s bushel. Poormans: Choice, 6s 6d, 7s 6d bushel. Pumpkin: Grey Ironbark, choice, 10s, 12s sack. DISTRICT STOCK SALES AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS Stock auctioneers report as follow; Alfred Buckland and Sons, Limited: During the week we held cattle sales at Westfield, Turua, Tuakau and Wellsford, and also one clearing sale. There were average yardings and a good demand for all classes, few failing to change owners. Best dairy cows and heifers made £l4 to £18: good cows and heifers, £lO 10. sto £l3 17s 6d; other cows and heifers, £4 10s to £10: empty young cows and heifers, £4 to £5 10s; store and boner cows, £2 to £6; fat cows and heifers, £6 10s to £ll 15s; cows with calves, £7 to £9 15s; fat steers, £ll 10s to £ls 10s; three to four-year-old steers, £8 10s to £9 16s; two to three-year-old steers, £7 5s to £8 10s; yearling to two-year-old steers, £4 10s to £7; well-bred yearling dairy heifers, £5 to £7; other yearling heifers, £2 15s to £4 17s 6d; sound young herd bulls, £4 4s to £lO 10s; heavy bulls, £4 to £5 15s; other bulls, £1 10s to £4; ewes in lamb, 13s to £1 4s; store wethers, 17s 6d to £1 2s; forward and store lambs, lls to 16s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited: Sales were held during the past week at Westfield, Pukekohe (cattle and pigs). Waiuku, Warkworth, Papakura and Kaukapakapa, with all classes of cattle selling at late rates. Best dairy cows and heifers sold at from £ll to £IS 10s; other dairy cows and heifers, £7 to £lO 15s; aged cows and inferior heifers, £3 15s to £6 15s; herd bulls, £4 to £lO 10s:* boner bulls, £2 to £5 ss; boner cows, £2 10s to, £5 10s:. store cows and heifers, £3 10s to £6 10s; yearling to 18-months heifers, £2 5s to £6; yearling to 18-months steers, £3 5s to £5 17s 6d; two to two and a-half-year steers, £6 to £7 10s; three to three and a-half-year steers, £7 15s to £9; grown steers in forward condition, £9 5s to £lO ss. Beef and pigs sold readily at Westfield quotations. RUAKURA STATE FARM ANNUAL PEDIGREE SALE Special to THE SUN HAMILTON, Wednesday. There was a large attendance of buyers from all over the Dominion at the sale of pedigree dairy stock and pigs, held on behalf of the Government at the Ruakura farm of instruction today. The stock were in splendid condition. Eighteen Shorthorn bulls sold at an average of 33 1-3 guineas, the highest price, 66 guineas, being paid by R. G. Finlay, of Miranda. Fourteen Jersey bulls were disposed of at an average of 29$ guineas, 81 guineas, the highest price, being paid by J. Bent, of Te Awamutu. Sixteen guineas was the average price received for 12 Ayrshire bulls, 46 guineas being the best price paid, the purchaser.being A. A. Potts, of Matamata. Seven Shorthorn heifers brought an average of 33 guineas, the best price, 53 guineas, being paid by I). Hardy, of Whangarei. W. S. Smith, of Kio Kio, paid 28 guineas for a Jersey heifer, the best of a line of four, which averaged 19$ guineas. Five Ayrshire heifers were sold for 70 guineas, the best realising 18 guineas. Pigs sold well. CHICAGO WHEAT Reed. 10.40 a.m. CHICAGO, Wed. Wheat.—September. 88 5-8 cents: December, 94 1-8 cents; March, 983 cents; May, 1 dollar 1% cents.

EMPLOYMENT AND THE WHEAT INDUSTRY With unemployment in New Zealand at its present acute stage little excuse can be found for those who would withdraw the support accorded the wheat grower, leaving him practically no alternative to sheep farming. Considerably less labour is required on sheep farms than on wheat farms. Moreover, most flour mill employees would have to be discharged, as flour would be imported instead of wheat, experience having shown that it is cheaper to import flour than to import wheat to be milled in New Zealand. The abandonment of wheat growing would mean unemployment not only for those engaged on farms and in mills, but also for those employed on threshing and hauling plants, in twine works, in making agricultural implements, in grain stores and offices, and in the transport services. Additional thousands would be thrown idle at a time when it is essential for every man possible to be profitably occupied. There is no possible advantage that could accrue in other directions 1o justify such havoc to one of the vital key industries of the Dominion.—4.