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Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1916, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

. > "" * ■' AUSTRALIAN MARKETS; Aui.tralian-N.Z. Cable Association. Sydney, Nov. 23. Oats, Algerian, feeding 2s 7d to 2s Sd, milling 2s lOd; Tasmanian, white 2s 8d to 2s lid. Barley,.3s to 3s (Id, Mnize, 3s 9d to 3s 10(1. Potatoes, Tasmanians, £8 to £lO. Onions," new £9. .Adelaide, Nov. 23. Oats, Is 8d to Is 10d. Melbourne, Nov. 23. Hides.—Fair supplies. Good conditioned lots from Jd to }d dearer. Better competition generally. Melbourne. N0v.,24. Bran, £4 lis Pollard, £5 t>k Barley.—Cape za 8d to 2s 10d. Oats—Milling Algerians 2s 2Jd to 2s 3d, feed Is lid to 2s. Potatoes, £5 to £7. Onions, £5 10s to £7. The Federal Government has decided to pool the wheat of the 1916-17 harvest and to advance farmers 2s 6d per bushel split into two or three payments, r Auckland the Westfield fat stock market best oxen sold to £2 fls per 1001b, others £2 5s to £2 8s; cow and heifer beei sold at from £2 2s to £2 Is per 1001b. Steers sold at from £l2 17s Od to £23 7s 6d; cows and heifers £9 to £l7 17s 6d. Calves: Runners £6 os to £9 15s, heavy vealers £5 to £7 lite, medium vealers £4 5s to £5 78 6d, light vealers £2 7s fld to £4 10s, small and freshdropped, 12s to £2 2s. Sheep were penned in full numbers and sold at improved prices. Best woolly wethers £2 3s Cd to £2 10s, others £1 18s to £2 2s 3d, shorn wethers £1 10s to £1 lfls, shorn ewes £1 4s to £1 14s fld, best woolly ewes £2 3s to £2 8s 3d, others £1 los to £2 Is fld, woolly hoggets" £1 ICs to £2 Is 9d. Lambs: Best £1 Of to £1 lis, others £1 Is 6d to £1 5s 9d. Pigs: Medium baconers £3 ICs to "£4 ss, light baconers £3 5: to £3 15s heavy porkers £3 to £3 Bs, medium porkel's £2 9s to £2 l&s, light porker; £2 to £.2 Ss, slips £1 5s to £1 13s weaners 15s to £1 4s, ADDINGTON Store sheep.—Wether hoggets, wooify 25s Od; mixed.sex hoggets, woolly, 21s 9d; 2-tooth wethers 17s 2d to 24s 2d; four-tooth wethers 28s (id to 30s Id four and six-tooth wethers 26s lOd tc 283 6d, six. and eight-tcoth wethers 26: lOd, two-tooth ewes 18s sd, two-tootl woolly ewes 345, four-tooth ewes 32s four and six-tooth ewes 26s sd, ewes and lambs (all counted) 18s 6d to 22f 6d. Fat Jambs. —Best'29s to 23s fid, light er 23s 3d to 29s 6d. Fat sheep.—Woolly wethers 38s 3d tc 50s, woolly merino wethers 34s to 39i Od, prime shorn wethers 30s to 35s Od lighter 2us to 29s 'fid, prime shorn ewe; 29s Od to 375, lighter 24s to 295, short hoggets 27s 0d to 31s. Fat cattle.—Extra prime . steers tc '£•2 l 10s, prime steers £ls to £2O, or elinary steers £9 10s to £l3, prime heifers £l3 10s to £l4 15s, 1 ordinary heifers' £8 17s fld to £l3, prime cows £l3 to £ls ss, ordinary cows £8 tc £l3. Store cattle.—Fifteen to eighteenmonths '£3 17s to £4 7s, two-yeai steers £.5 12s Gd, two-year heifers £5 12s (Id, 23-year steers £7 7s od, threeyear heifers £9, dry cows £3 10s to £lO, dairy cows £5 10s to £ls 15s. Pigs—Choppers £4 to £4 17s, extra heavy baconers to £5, heavy baconers £4 5s to £4 12s', lighter £3 10s to £4 (equal to 7d to ."'/"d per lb). Heavy porkers o2s to o7s, lighter 48s to 50s (equal to 9d to 9%d per lb); best stores 60s to 70s, medium stores 48s to Sis, small stores 39s to 38s, weaners 19s 6d to 2<is fid. TiURNSIDE. Best bullocks '£lß 10s to £2O 10s, extra £2-2 10s to £25 15s, good £l6 10s to £lB, unfinished £l3 to £l4 15s, best cows and heifers £l3 10s to £l4 10s, extra £lO los to £l7 2s fld, medium £ll to £l2 10s,' light £8 10s to £lO 10s. Fat sheep,—Extra prime woolly wethers iJSs 9d, good 40s to 43s fld, medium 34s to 38s, extra heavy woolly ewes 46s fld, good 34s to 375, extra prime shorn wethers 41s 3d, good 34s to .'los 3d, medium 28s 6d to 325, light 20s to <37is (!d, extra heavy shorn ewes 36s 9d, medium to good 27s to 29s 9d, light and inferior 23s to 255. Lambs—Best 29s Cd, medium to good 22s to 275. Pigs.—Best baconers 105s, good 90s, others 7os to 80s. ELTHAM SALE. The Farlners' Co-operative Society held their usual fortnightly Eltham sale 011 Wednesday. Weaner pigs sold at from lis to 12s 6d; stores 14s to 32s 6d. Store cows were readily disposed of at from £8 (is to £9. Yearling heifers were in good demand and realised from £0 6s to £7 Is. Forward cows brought from £9 to £ll. Fat cows were eagerly bid for and changed hands at from ill to £l4 12s, Bulls sold according to size and weight, bringing from £S 10s to £l3. Dairy heifers: There was a steady demand for and they realised from £8 15s to £l4.