COMMERCIAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 168, 20 March 1915, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKET REPORT. Press Association —■ Copyright. (Reed. 2.15 p.m.) LONDON, March 1?. Wheat is dull, floor steady and unchanged. Barley i s quiet: Australian Chevalier 38/ to 30/. Oats are firm: New Zealand 37/. Peas are quiet and unchanged. Beans are quiet- New Zealand 42/ -n 43/. __ HIGH COMMISSIONER'S RKiOUI. LONDON, March 10. The Colonial wool sales have commenced. The market locks very strong and chare are a number of buyers. Top prices for crossbred wool still continue, and high prices are r v pact”d for of medium and coarse crossbreds, the market for whi.h lias advanced i;d per lb. On an ;. other wools are' firm at las* ; ; a tiuns. D \LOETY AND COMPANY _ I." D., 1 PALMERSTON NORTH. At our usual weekly sale ai :m----ers ton North to-day we offered : fair yarding of stock to a small aite ‘ are :cf the ? public. Quotations; Fourl.tooth wethers 20/; If » uths steers ' £3 11/. Dadgety and Company, Ltd., Prlmarstdn • North, report .having ?. fair enllry of stock at their Hun f.rviUe sale cn the 16th inst., which soli/ as below: /Mixed 2-tooths to 13/8; 3 to T: year steers to £8 0/6; fat cows £'* to £3 0/6 to £9 18/; fat heifers to £6 2/C.

There are at present 100.0U0 carcases Qf mutton and iamb stored in. the freetfinga chamber of the Waingawa works;,, Masterton. The output of the works has been considerably in advance of that of last year. Atl-ft representative meeting of farmers held .at Palmerston North for the purpose of discussing tie matter of the arrangement made by the Government for the acquisition of meat supplies, the following resolutions uere carried unanimously: “That this meeting of bccftproducers of kfannw-ju. Rang!tikei, ami Horowhenua districts, while ; agreeable to the prices or ranged for .meat, emphatioaly protests against arrangements hiawie by thy i'l; with the freezing ..companies for th> purchase of moat for army supplies. Inasmuch as the arrangements wore made without consulting the producers, nnd. on account of the difficulty of securing freezing space, to sell f. o. b. to the Government the freezing companies have practically a monopoly of buying at their own prices.” “That in the opinion of this meeting ii is considered advisable that the Government control the freezing works in n der that m:o----dueers may not be k> exploited by such companies refusing to tree/,5 on owners’ account.”