COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1917, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

THE PRICE OF HEMP By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Sept. 22. The Premier has received from the High Commissioner the following cable: —"The Hemp Controller now advises that it is proposed to fix the maximum price of No. 2 hemp £1 per ton higher than the figures before mentioned. The fixed price of tow is as follows: No 1 £59 per ton; No. 2, "£SG; No. 3, £54." Messrs Levin and Co. have received a cable to the effect that the Imperial Government has fixed the maximum prices of hemp in London, good fair £S4 per ton, high fair £32, low fair £Bl, prices c.i.f. London, war insurance paid by shipper. MAXIMUM PRICE FIXED. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. (London, Sept. 21. ■ The Army Council has fixed maximum prices for New Zealand hemp and sisal fibre in order to secure farmers binder twine at a reasonable price.

AUCKLAND. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited, report:— Westlield—(Best dairy cows and heifers £l2 10 5 to £lO HOs, others £8 10s to £ll 15s, bulls £S to £l4 158, empty cows and heifers £0 15s to £0 ss, yearling to IS-raonth heifers £5 10» to £7 17s 6d, ditto steers £0 HOs to £0 10s, 2 to 3-year steers £lO to £l3 ss, good calves £4 10s to £O, others ( £3 to £4 Bs. Albert yards.—Heavy draughts '£22 to £35, medium £l7 to £2O, light harness sorts £lO to £lO, hacks £3 to £l6, ponies £4 to £7, weeds 12s Cd upwards. Westiield fat stock market: —First quality sold up to £2 Kis per 1001b, others £2 12s to £2 15a per 1001b. Cow and heifer beef £2 10s to £2 15s per 1001b. Steers sold at from £l7 10s to £26 15s, cows and heifers £ll to"£l7 2s 6d. Calves: Heavy vealers from £6 23 6d to £7 2s 6d, 'medium £4 5s to £5 15s, lighter £3 10 to £4 Cs, light '£2 Ms to £3 3s, small and fresh-drop-ped, good colors, 12s Cd to £2 3s Cd, weak and inferior 4s to 10s. Pigs: A small muster, which brought high values. Choppers sold from £5 12s to £0 18s, heavy taconers £4 14s to £5 lis, small baconers £3 17s 6d to £4 12s fid, large porkers £3 lis to £3 17s, medium £2 15s to £3 os, small 37s (id to £2 14s slips 16s to 235. Sheep were penned in average numbers, and sold under steady competition. Best .wethers sold at from £2 5s to £2 12s, others £1 17s to £2 4s fld, best ewe 3 £'l,lßs to £2 (is, others £1 13s 6d to £\ 17s 9d, best hoggets £1 15s to £2 5s fid, others £1 fls to £1 14s Od, inferiorly. fatted £l Is to £1 (is 6d.