COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1916, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

PRODUCE FOR EXPORT. New Zealard produce entered for export last week was valued as follows: '£ Butter ........ 2,771 Cheese > ,i 258 Frozen beef, etc .' 62,598 Gold 1,948 Grain and pulse 500 Hides and skins 20,434 Kauri gum 1,019 Flax and tow 5,21fi Tallow ..., 52s Timber 14,404 Wool , 29,503 Total £139,179 AUCKLAND.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report:—

At Westfield fat stock sale last Thursday, best d.'iiry cows and heifers sold at from £9 15s to £l4 Ins, others £5 10s to £8 10s. Store cattle in average numbers sold at late rates. Empty cow? £0 5s to £S ss, bulls £fi 10s to £lO, steer claves £3 4s to £4 2s, heifers calves' £2 Is to £3. At Albert yards on Friday Imr-i.s proved slow of sale. Heavy draughts £23 to £35, medium £l7 10s to £2B 10s, unbroken medium £lO to £2O 10s, light harness horses £9 to £l4 ]os, hacks £7 10s to £l3, ponies £4 to £lO.,

At Pukekohe on Monday we had a full yarding of dairy cattle for our special dairy sale, and buyers being in attendance, competition was keen, everything being sold at high rates. Best dairy cows £lO to £lO 10s, others £fi to £0 10s, best ditto heifers £S 15s to £l3, others £5 10s to £8 ss.

At Pukekohe on Tuesday bidding was keen. Two and .i-half to three-year-old steers £8 15.=. to £lO, yearling to 18month steers £5 5s to £0 17s fid, steer calves £3 to £4 lis, hei/er calves £2 53 to £3 17s Od, yearling to 18-month heifo.s £4 to £5 12s Cd, empty cows and heifers £6 5s to £8 17s (id, bulls £0 10s to £l2. Beef, in large supply, sold at fully Westfield prices, steers selling to £lO 10s, cows to £l2 17s fid. At Westfield fat stock market on Wednesday best oxen sold to £2 7s 6d per 1001b., others £2 3s to £2 fis, cows and heifers sold to £2 53 per 1001b for best, others £2 Is to £2 3s (Id, steers sold at from £l2 7s fid to £2O 7s Oil, cows and lieifers sold at from £S 5s to £l9 15s for a white eow futted liy Mr. James Taylor Cambridge. Some of the averages were: 9 steers from Mi. .James Taylor, Maungakawa £2O Is; 10 steers from Mr. W Henry, Taupiri, £lO 15s; 12 steers from Karaka, £lO. A truck of extra well fatted cows from Mr. James Taylor, Maungakawa, averaged £l7 ss. Calves were penned in full numbers, nnd sold at advanced rates. Runner* sold at from £7 5s to £9 15s, heavy suckers £4 17s fid to £7 for a sucker ;old on actount of Mr. Arthur Rutherford. Te Aroha, medium suckers £3 to £4 l:?s Od, light £1 15s to £2 15s, small and frrsh-dropped 3s to £1 12s. Sheep were penned in average numbers. Competition was keen and prices advanced Is lid to 2s Od per head. Best wethers sold at from £1 Ifis fid to £2 0s 3d; other wethers £1 13s to £1 lfis, best ewes sold at from £1 14s fid to £1 18s 3d, others £1 lis <)d to £1 14s; hoggets sold at from £1 Is 6d to £1 10s fid. Best lambs sold at from £1 to £1 5s 3d, others 10s 3d to 19s Od.

Pigs: Choppers sold at from £5 to £7 ?s Od; heavy baconers £4 5s to £4 17s i'd, medium £3 14s to £4 3s, light £3 fis to £3 l.?s: heavy porkers £2 10s to £3 ?s, medium £2 2s to £2 9s, light £1 15s to £2 Is; slips £1 2s to £1 lis; no weiners yarded sociation wore adopted.