COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1917, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON PRODUCE MARKE^T. Wellington, Last Night, Messrs Lonsdale and Co. (Mr. S. Turner, local agent) cable as follows: Maximum prices have been fixed for the next fortnight for Danish and New Zealand butter at 92-13; Australian 218s. Cheese—United States IGOs, Canadian IC2e.

LOAN & MERCANTILE C'O.'S ITiIPORT. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd. (Hawera branch) report as follows; ' Kakaramea—Ewes (aged) 12s 7d, 4 and 5-year do. 235, 9d, cuils 0s lid, shorn 12s, ewes (forward)' 235, coiVs £9 .is to £lO Us, stores £5 to £ii 17s fid, 2-year heifers £S 10s, weaner heifers £2 tls, IS-month steers £4 -2s Gd.

Rltham. Ewes (aged) 15s, lambs woolly) 15s to Ids lid, ewes (forward) 2Cs, bulls £8 5s to £l3 Ms, cows £l9 Hi to £lO lis. IS-month heifers £3 IDs (id to £4 ss, wcancrs 17s to 453. Haivcra.—Lambs (woolly) 15s to Ills 9d, <diorn 8s to Ms (id, ewes (soundmouthed) 2Ss (hi, aged 13s M to 17s. fid 5-vear ewes '225,. bulls £S 17s (id to £l-2 Bs, cows (fat) £l4 to £ls 9s, forward cows £8 10s to. £D 7s, weaners £2 Is to £2 10s. j FARMERS' CO-OP. SOCIETY'S ! REPORT. At Opunake yards on Monday last Ihere was an average yarding of cattle, wl'-icli sold under good competition throughout. Fat cows £l2 10s to £l3 17s (id, fresh-conditioned cows v£lo to £ll 10s, forward cows £S 10s to £!) 15s, store cows and empty heifers £<i to £7 10s, boners £3 15s to £5 15s, bulls £5 10s to £1.13,' good weaners (steers) £3 18s to £4 ss, others £■> 10s to £3 l'4s, small wcancrs 25s to £2. Manaia. —Fat cows sold at from £l2 10s to £l4, fresh-conditioned cows £lO to £ll 15s, forward cows £S 10s to £9 ss, store cows and empty heifers £ll to £S, boners £,' l I'2s to £j ISs, bulls £<i 7s Gd to £l3, wcancrs (steers) £3 15s, heifers £2 2s to £2 litis, other weaners 25s to £2, pigs (stores) 20s to 255, weaners 103 to 14s. Stratford.—Fat cows £l2 to £ls 2s, forward and fresh-conditioned cows £S to £ll los, store cows and crnptv heifers £5 10s to £7 15s, 2'/«-ycar stee:-, £ll 8s fid, 20-month steers £8 5- !,.i £9 os, in-calf Holstein heifers £7 1:' i £ll ISs, bulls £« 10s to £ll 'ss, spiv.iging heifers £9 ss, mixed weaners K. 5s to £2 14s Gd, f.lll. ewes 2Gs, a.geil ewes 8s Gd to 15s, store' lambs 12s Od to Ws. At Inglewood on Wednesday last wc had a good yarding of cattle and sheep, There was a, large attendance of buyer*, and a successful sale was held. .Heavy bulls sold to £lO 10s, others ,CS to £ls, fat cows £i2 to £1,2 ltl.s, freshconditioned cows £0 to £ll, forward cows £& to £9, store cows and empty heifers £5 10s to £7 17s (id, 3-year steers £l4 ISs, 20-month steers £8 ss, weaners £-2 5s to £3'lSs, f.f.ni. ewes 2Gs to 30s Sd, f.lll. ewes 20s to 255, fat sheep 31s Gd to 33s (id, store lambs 7s 3d to 10s, good lambs to I'Js, Homney rams I'/sgns to other rams lgn to 2gns. A.uroa.—Fat cows £l2 to £l2 18s, fvesh-condit.ioned cows £lO to £ll ]os, forward cows £8 to £9, store cows £5 10s to £7 17s, 20-nionth.s steers £8 18s, bulls £7 to £l3, weaners 30s to £3 3s' lambs 14s.