COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1917, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS.

London. August 11. Hemp.—Market quiet. Firm high point fair July-September £!)2. Rubber—Para 3s 2td, plantation 2a O'/.d, smoked 2s 3d. Copra.—Unchanged. Mutton.—Australian and New Zealand 9%d, ■FARMERS' SOCIETY'S REPORT. Opunako (Monday)— Fat cows sold at from £l2 10s to .-£l2 14s, fresh conditioned cows £lO to £ll 5*3, forward cows £S 15s to £9 IBs, store cows £0 !0s to £S 10s, empty heifers £'s 15s to £7, 2 to 3-year steers £!> to £l4 12s, good yearling steers £0 los, others £5 to £0 (is, yearling heifers £3 5s to £3 10s. bulls £9 to £lO ss, f.m. breeding ewes 17s 3d, store hoggets los to £1 3s, dairy cows £lO 5 S to" £l2 ss, heifers £7 los to £l2 ss.

Manaia yards (Tuesday)— Fat cows £l2 15s to £ll 7s, forward cows £9 to £ll. store cows £G to £S 10s, bulla £lO to £l4, yearling steers £5 to £6 18s, yearling heifers £3 Is to £4 17s, best springing- heifers £l2 to £l(s las, others £0 to £ll 10s, weaner pigs ISs to 17s. store pips '23s to 295; sundries sold at ruling rates. Ingknvood (Wednesday)— Rest dairy cows sold at from £l2 10s to £ 15, others £9 to £l2, in-calf heifers £7 10a to £l2 10s, forward cows £9 10r. to £lO !)s, store cows and empty heifers €0 12s fld to £3 3.5, hull - £l2, good weaners £5 17s to £0 10s, others £3 12s to £5 heifers £3 19s to £O, hoggets 13s 7d to Ids lid, store wethers 25s fld. horses £4 10s to £ls 10s, pigs Ss Gd to 20s. Anroa (Friday)— Extra prime cows' sold to £l7 10s. others £l2 to £l3 18s, jfresh conditioned cows £9 15s to £ll, forward cows £8 10s to £9 55,-store fiw,; £7 to £x Ss. small store 'cows'-'and empty heifers £5 5s to £0 16s, weaner heifers £4 5s to £5 7s (id, weaner steers£■l 15s. The advertised da irf cows 'on account of Mr. H. Munro sold at froni £!) to £ls, others £lO to £l4 10?, springing heifers £!) 10s to £ls ss. !

N.Z. LOAN AX© MERCANTILE '• : . AGENCY - CO.'S REPORT. •->«•! The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. (Tlawera branch) report an -follows: TCakarvmea—Six; and- 8-tooth ' ewes with lambs at foot 3Ss 3d,' 2-tooth wethers 25s 3d, forward eiiiptv- cows £8 lfis to £lO i2s (Id. backward- cows £5 15s to £7 12s (Id, light fat eo\vs"£<4 15s to £l2 10s, dairy cows '£lo's« td'- £il lofi,' weaner heifers £3 Bs't(J-'(C4 , ;WtL l i'rs £4 to "5 3s. store pigs K>s to 20s, At Elthnm sale-on August Swe had"' !1 large entry of cattle itiitl" sfcKifl- attendance of buyers. There -wai a 'keen dc-lii-tnd for all classes, --especially forward cows. Cows (forward)' ';6S Is to £!', -store cows £fi .fw to Xp'dTa, weaner, steers £4 10s to £5-2s, hei%S -£3 to £4 15s fid, bulls £M SsHO ®lsj springing heifers £8 12s to: £ll, Cows (second and third calvcrs) £lO 16s to'. £ll 15s. Jlawera—Four and It-tooth' ewes m iamb 37s 3d, fat anil-forward-ewes 31s. ewes and lambs 3S» <3ii, hoggets 20s 50d, fat cows £ll 10s to £l3 14?, forward cows ,C Bto £9. weaner steers £4 10s, weaner heifers £3 4s, forward store pigs £1 18s to £2, j siips 9s to 10s. springing early calvcrs (good conditioned) £l2 to £!;>, late culvers £8 to £lO, springing heifers £7.

At; Hawera yards on Friday, 10th inst., We held a clearing sale of a Shorthorn dairy held on account'of Mr. James Punlop, Trra Turn Kd. The line of 54 averaged CIS. Good conditioned early ea\vers £m t 0 £25, late calvcrs £ll 10s to £ls.