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Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1915, Page 2

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HOME MARKETS. Received Sept. £3, 0 5 p.m. By Cable—Press Association—-Copyright. London, Sept. 22. Wheat is firm, and cargoes are steady. Copper: On spot £7O 28 ttd to £7O 7s Oil; three months, £7l 5s to £7l 10s. ! Tin: Cash, £152 to £152 10a; three' months, £152 15s to £153 ss. Lead: £23 17s Gd to £22 17s <Sd. Spelter: £G6 to £GO. Wool: There was improved competition. Crossbreds sold at late rates, merinos being unchanged. New Zealand clips: A.H., top price LG'/jjd, average Kyeburn, top, 17d, average 15% d; Mt White, top 2tty s d, average 25% d; Waitua, top 15% d, average 15d. Tallow: 1441 casks offered, 1351 sold. ' Mutton: Fine 37s 6d, medium 355. Beef: Fine 37s 3d, medium 34s 6d. MELBOURNE WOOL SALES. Melbourne, Sept. 23, At the wool sales competition was disappointing. Better classes were 5 per cent., medium 10 per cent., and inferior 15 per cent, below the July rates. INSULATED CARGO SPACE. The' Overseas Shipowners' Committee has secured to the end of December next insulated cargo space equivalent to 2,051,000 freight carcases. The loadings per month are as follows: Now loading.—Carpentaria, 93,000 carcases; Port Albany, 76.000; Hurunui, 150,000; Hawke's Bay 111,000; total, 430,000. To load during September and October—Matatua, 84,000; Kumara, 73,000; Dorset, 45,000; Clan McTavjsh, 42,000; Whakatane, 70,000; Rimutaka, .110,000; Arawa, 87,000; Miinlro, 82,000; Star of Australia, 75,000; Turakina, 120,000; total, 788,000. To load in November.—Star of Scotland, 82,000; Kaikoura 90,000; Karamea, 72,000; Orari, 120,000; Star*-of India, 103,000; Rangatira, 97,000; total, 504,000 carcases.

To load in December.—Paparoa 70,000; Nerehana, 77,000; Indrabarah, 99,000; Kia Ora, 80,000; Mamari, 90,000; Ruapehu, 84,000; Tongariro, 81,000; Corinthic, 96,000; Athenie, 96.000; total, 789,000; grand total, 2,651,000 carcases.

NEW PLYMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 24. RETAIL PRICES. DAIRY PRODUCE, ETC. ( Butter— b. d. Factory ...-,-...,v.. >-.•.-...-, 1 5 Best Separator ~ .-.-.,•. .v.-... .V 1 3 Seconds 'i'....-.-.-.-.-.-.--.-., ...... 1 2 Eggs .-....•.'....•..•........• 1 0 Lard .-.. ,-.w.-,-... . .,.-..... 0 10 Hams -.-.:.-.-.-.,..-.-.v. ..,09 Rashers bacon .....-.■.-.-,-,■.-.•,-.-.... 0 11 Milk (quart) .-.-. v.-.-...;....-..-... ff 4 FRUIT. Oranges ....-.-.. .v.v....... 2s and 2s 6d Bananas ...-.-..v.'-,v.v.'....'.-.-. 4d lb. Passion fruit r .i.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.•.-,-.-.-.. 6d doz. Pear., 6d lb Walnuts .-.-...-.-.-..-.. Is lb Apples ....... 3d to 6d lb Apples, cooking ■.-.- 3d lb Lemons Is 6d and 2s doz. ■!' .VEGETABLES. Cauliflowers >...-. 4d to Is Cabbage ..-.-....-.v.-.....;.. 3d and 4d. Carrots .................. 2d per bunch Turnips .....-.-., ; .-,-.-.v../. 2d per bunch Potatoes -.-.-<•.-...-.>-«■. „, z ,. Id lb. Parsnips 2d Vegetables marrows .... 4d and 6d each Pumpkins Id lb BUYING PRICES. Factory butter— g. d. Factory l \ Best Separator regist'd dairies 1 2 Eggs > 0 10 Fungus o 3

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Stratford bsanch, reports as follows: On Tuesday, 14th inst., we held our usual weekly springing heifer sale in our Stratford Yards, when we had a 'fair yarding of 45 head, a good many of which were small and backward, for the demand was slack, but we have an unsatisfied demand for.good quality, wellgrown stuff. Three-year-olds, showing quality, good, made from £lO 15s to £ll 2s fld; medium £9 17s 6d; poorer sorts £7 5s to £8 10s; smaller and loweonditioned stock made £6 to £6 7s 6d; good two-year-olds made from £5 10s to £5 15s; medium £5 2s Cd; poor quality £4 as; calved heifers £4 5s to £6; dairy cows, nothing very good yarded, £6 ,17s 6d to £8 12s Od. Our next springing heifer sale will be held on 28th inst..

On Friday. 17th inst., we held our usual monthly sale in our Tc Wera Yards, when we had a fair yarding of 276 head of cattle and one horse. No sheep were yarded owing to the rough weather preceding the sale. The attendance was large and the demand good, most lines being cleared at the hammer or afterwards at the following rates:— Store cowb, small and low conditioned, 72s to 935; better sorts 98s to 101s; yearling steers, small, £2 7s 6d to £2 12s fid; better quality £3 3s to £3 5s Gd; empty heifers, medium quality, 72s to 78s; good lines 92s 6d; 18-month heifers 60s; yearling heifers 32s 6d to 455; springing heifers £0 to £7 10s; heifers, calved, £5; dairy cows from £8 to £9 10s; bulls £3 to £O. Our next Te Wera sale will be held on Friday, October 15.

On Tuesday, 21st. inst., we held our fortnightly sale in our Stratford Yards, when we had a fair yarding of 445 head of cattle, 60 sheep, and 24 pigs. The attendance was large, and a good clearance was effected, although prices were hardly as good as a few weeks ago. Fat cows £8 to £8 10s; medium quality £7 8s to £| 15s; smaller sorts £7 l's to £7 2s; good forward cows made £0 6s to £0 14s; small store cows from £5 15s to £5 19s; smaller sorts £5 to £5 7s 6d; store cows, low conditioned, made £4 to £4 lGs; aged cows, neglected, Gas to 77s Gd; very poor stuff 30s to 365; empty heifers fils to 70s; 18-month heifers 50s to 51s; yearling heifers 43s to 455; smaller sorts 35s to 38s; yearling steers, small, 5Ds to 51s; 18 to 20-month steers 725.

In our Pig Yards we had a fair entry, and a good attendance of buyers. We report a good sale, and the farmers appear to appreciate our holding these sales on Tuesday, as it suits them better than having to cart their pigs on Saturdays. Breeding sows, small and backfrom 50s to £7O; stores, made, small"l7s 0d; medium 225; fair 23s Cd to 255: porkers, medium quality, 27s Oil to £5 7s '6d. Our next Stratford sale be held oii Tuesday, 23th inst. In our Springing Heifer Yards on Tuesday, 21st inst., we had a fairly large entry of 01 head, though the quality was not up to the usual standard, bu,t anything good made good "prices, poorer sorts being neglected. Three-year-olds made £6 10s to £10; smaller from £5 10s to £6 2s 6dj small and poor £i 10s to r £s 7s 6d; heifers with calf at foot

£6 12s 6d to £7 10s; small grown -£5 to £5 17s 6d. Our next Stratford sale will be held on Tuesday, October 5. Since we last reported we have sold a good deal of stock privately to a" good demand for all grown lines. Hoggets, small and cully 16s; yearling steers, small, 50s to 60s; better quality 70s; 18-month steers £3 19s; 2-year steers 90s; yearling bulla 355; 2-year old heifers 71s 3d; yearling heifers, small, 44s to 50s; better quality 655; small yearlings 35s to £2; dairy heifers £7 to £8 5s to £9; calved heifers £9; dairy cows, medium, £7 to £8; good lines £lO 10s to £l2 10s. We sold a nice line of 40 dairy cows on account of a Cardiff client at £10; store cows, small, £3; medium 90s; good £6 35,6 d. On Tuesday, 21st inst., we held our usual monthly sale qf wool, sheepskins, hides, and tallow, when we had a fair catalogue of 47 packages of wool, 351 sheepskins, 970 hides and calfskins, and 5 packages of tallow,,all farmers' lines. Wool, in sympathy with the Home markets, had receded from lid to 2d per lb, and the demand is not bo keen, especially for seedy and inferior wool. The best lines of fleece, scoured, made Is 4Jd per lb; fleeco wool, heavy, lOd; crutchings, seedy, sd; medium quality 8d; fair quality 9d; dead wool up to 9Jd; pieces, heavy and wasty, from l£d to 4d; horse hair up to la 2d per lb. Sheepskins were also down in sympathy with outside markets from Jd to jd per lb. We appear to have secured the highest price at the hammer, i.e., 9Jd per lb for a nice line of farmers' skins from Pohokura; fair hoggets' skins 8d to 9d per lb; crossbred dead and wasty 5Jd to 6sd per lb; crossbred medium Bid to Bid; good 9Jd; fair wool, damaged pelts, up to OJd; salted Bkins 2s 6d to 4s according to quality.

The demand for hides and calfskins is soroeviiat better. Light cowhides 7Jd; slipy hides Sid; cut and damaged CJd; oxhides, light, 7d to 8d per lb; yearlings' 7d; calfskins, light weights, 9}d; fleshy 7fd to S}d; cut 7Jd; slipy, small and inferior, sd; tallow in tins, medium quality, 20s 6d per cwt. Clients will kindly note when comparing prices that we shall be glad if they will bear in mind that all produce offered in our catalogues consists of fanners' lines, there being no abattoir-killed bides and calfskins included.