COMMERCIAL

Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1917, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

LONDON MARKETS. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. London, Nov. 17, Rubber.—Para 2s OJd, plantation 2s C 5-Bd, smoked 2s 4%d. Hides.—Dry salted, firm. Australian lSd to l'9d, seconds to 17%. I • Leather.—Basils firm, strong demand at full Tates for whatever is released for civilian, requirements. Rabbit skins.—Strong demand, good business! for shipments afloat" at prices considerabl above July auction rates. FARMERS' CO-OP. SOCIETY'S REPORT. Opunake yards: Fresh conditionedcoivs £l2 12s to £l3, forward cows £lO to £ll 18s, store cows £8 2s to £9 17s fid, empty heifers £5 15s to £7 15s, good yearling heifers £6 10s to £7 2s Od, others £4 to £5 10s, yearling stem £5 to £6 10s, bulls £lO to £ls, yearlong bulls £5 to £O, springing heifers £7 10s to £9 10s, store pigs £ll7s to £2, porkers £2 lis to £3 4s. Stratford: Fresh conditioned and forward cows sold at from £9 lis to £ll 2s fld, light and backward cows £6 to .€8 12s, yearling heifers £3 Ifig to £7 ss, 2-ycar heifers £7 12s Bd, bulls sold to 28Jgn$, dairy heifers £8 15s to £l3. Manaia yards: Fat cows sold to £l3 13s, fresh conditioned cows £ll to £l2 12s, forward cows £9 15s to £lO 15s, store cows £7 15s to £9 12s 6d, empty heifers £5 10s to £7 7s 6d, yearling heifers £5 15s, bulls £8 10s to £l2, springing heifers £8 10s to £ll IDs, dairy cows £lO 10s to £l3, weaner pigs 14s to 17s, store pigs 22s 6d to 30s od, breeding sows £3. Inglewood yards: Fresh conditioned cows £9 15s to £lO 10s, forward cows £9 to £9 10s, store cows £8 to £8 12s, Od, empty heifers £6 5s to £7 12s <3d, yearling heifers £4 la to £5 3s fid, yearling steers £4 15s to £6 17s Bd, one jlen good Shorthorn yearling steers made £8 4s Od, bulls £5 5s to £ls, best springing heifer 9 £l2 1 0s to £l6, others £(i 10s to £9 15s, weaner pigs 21s to 23s Gd. Auroa yards: Springing heifers £lO to £ls 10b, cows £ll to £l3, fat cows £l2 12s to £l3, fresh conditioned cows £ll *to £l2, forward cows £9 10s to £lO 10s, store cows £8 to £9 7s, empty heifers £6 10s to £7 10a, yearling steers £3 10s to £4, bulls £4 10s to £ls. N.Z. LOAN AND MIA. CO., LTD, The New Zealand Loan and Meresntile Agency Co. Lt,d., Ha wera, report as follows: Kakaramea: Fat cows '£l2 10s to £l3 7s Od, good forward cows £9 12s fid to £ll ss, others £7 to £9, 12 to 15months steers £7 6s, yearling heifers £3 12s, Shorthorn bulls £0 to £ls, Hoisteins 16gns, Jerseys £7 69 to I £l2, shorn 'hoggets 255, shorn forward ewes 255, full-mouth ewes and lambs £2, dairy cows (close to profit) £lO to £l9, springing heifers £9 15s to £lO ss. Eltbam: Forward cows £9 5s to £lO 12s, store cows £6 lis to £7 lis, light cows in forward condition £8 3s to £8 ss, yearling heifers £4 4s, Jersey bulls £5 5s to £B, Holstcins 13gns, woolly hoggets 28s Id to 37s 6d, weaner pigs 16s fid to 19s lid, stores 28s to 335, porkers £2 Is to £2 ss, fencing posts Is Id, dairy cows (close to profit) £ll to £l3 2s Od, springing heifers .£8 10s to £lO 10s. Hawera: Fat cow 3 £l2 6s to £l3 ss, geod forward cows ; £lO to £ll Us, others £8 7s Od to £9, shorn fat wethers 3.15 lOd, fat shorn maiden ewes 32a, hoggets 28s 9d, shorn fat hoggets 295, f.rn. shorn ewes, with 70 per cent, lambs £7s 9d, Shornhorn bulls £ls, Jerseys £5 15s to £lO, yearling to 15-montlis bulls £4 10s to £9 10s, 2-vear empty heifers £7 7s, 15-months Holstein heifers £6 109, yearling To 15-m/<ths Jersev cross heifers £4 10s to £5 Is, weaner'pigs 17s to £l, good stores 4B» to 475.