COMMERCIAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 145, 22 February 1915, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

MARKET REPORTS. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palmers, on North, report, having a very good entry of sheep and a small yarding of cattle at their Feilding sale on Friday, 19th inst There was a very fair demand throughout at prices as follows: Cull lambs 4/ to 5/6, medium lambs 7/ to 8/, rape lambs 9AS to 10/3, small 2 tooth wethers to 14/, medium 4 tooth wethers to 16/6, f«t and forward ewes to IS/, Southdown rams io 40-ns, bulls to £o 17/0.

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, report having an exceptionally good entry of sheep a fair yarding of cattle at their Mangaweka sale on Thursday, 18th inst. The demand throughout was exceptionally keen and every line of sheep sold readily under the hammer. Quotations: Coed mixed lambs ft/3 to 9/0, 9/8 -o 9/11, medium mixed lambs 7/7 t.c V, small lambs 5/ to 6/3. small 2-th wethers to 15/11, very fair 2-th wethers to 10/10, good 2-th ewes to 17/6, mixed age ewes 12/3, 12/10 to 13/, mmll 3 and 4-year ewes to 10/6, small 2-th ewes to 14/6, Reniney rams 2to 23gns. A line of 213, 4 and 5-year ewes sold on arrount of Mr W. P. Stevens, realised 18/. A lino of 130, 5 year selling at 6/7 to 6/7A and pearl at '- 3 A line of" 400, 4 and 5 year owes sold on account C G. Wilson realised 17/4. Mixed weaners to P.2, empty cows •:o £2 10/, bulls £5 to £5 7/6, young bulls tc £4 !>/', fat and forward cows :o £5 jo/, fat cows to £7 15-m.onths :>>vers t- .'Jf. 9/, 2-ye.Vr steers to £5

CAViI JTBURY GRAIN MARKETS. CHRISTCHURCH. Feb 20. Tuning the last few days farmers h-;\e boon offering win-at freely and i cov.fideiable quantity has changed hands. th r - millers still being free buyers. Growers have been very firm in holding out for their own prices, and the rates paid show little advance over last week. Hunters and lusean are now selling at 6/7 to 67Jd and pearl at 6/8 to 6/9 at country stations, highest prices being given at near stations. The wheat offering is mostly very prime, but a few badly smutted samples have also come forward, and are only fit for fowl feed. Oats are still in keen demand, and are selling at 3/6 and 3/7 for Gartons, and up to 4/ at country stations for Algerians. The latter, which are scarce, are mostly wanted for seed for the North Island. Oatsheaf "half is difficult to obtain, and £5 is now being given for prompt delivery Barley is not so readily saleable as oats and wheat, but much of the crop has now changed hands. There is not a large amount of business being done in potatoes, and growers are not inclined to sell forward. No business is vet reported in Peninsula cocksfoot, but some seed off the plains has been sold at 6id and 7d.

HIDE AND SKIN SALES. SATISFACTORY PRICES OBTAINED The fortnightly sales of skins, hides, tallow and oddments were held yesterday by Dalgety and Co., Loan and Mercantile Agency, Abraham and Williams, Levin and Co., Murray, Roberts and Co., W. and G. Turnbull and Co., United Farmers' Co-operative Association and W'airarapa Farmers' Co-op-erative Association. The brokers' reports show that a large catalogue of all descriptions was submitted to a full bench cf buyers. Bidding was keen, and as shown by the range of orices orders must be still plentiful for skins and hides. For fine and medium crossbred sheepskins }d per lb about denotes the rise, whilst hides of all weights and sound advanced 3-8 d and in some cases id per lb. Tallow is new feeling the rising market with -satisfactory results. WELLINGTON CUSTOMS. WELLINGTON ,Fb. 20. The Customs revenue received at Wellington on Saturday totalled £1603 9/3.