COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 December 1917, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

loxdon markets, butter .selling at 2s en. London, Decembel tf. Butter.—Tlic iTictribution lias commenced, enabling many retailers to have (mtter on their counters for the first time for several weeks. All was quickly sokl at half a crown per pound. beat. Market quiet, few cargoes offering. Flour.—Market firm and unchanged. Oats and Peas —Market slow and uncnanged. Peans Market firm and hardening. Sugar—Market unchanged. Tin.—Stocks £0,(310, *pot afloat (estimated) 4500, deliveries ISOO. ' ■ London. Dec. G. War Loans £S3 and .€'J3 l as. Copper, .-0110 ss. lin. .Spot £292 2s Cd, three months £290 -2s fid. Lead-Spot £3O IDs, three month? £29 10.;. Spelter—Spot .£54. three months £SO. Silver, 3s fi"/,d per oz. 4 . N.Z. LOAN AND MERCANTILE Au'ENCV CO.'S REPORT. The X.Z. Loan, and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. (Hawera branch) report as follows: Opunakc.—flood fresh-conditioned cows £lO 2s fid to .£lO Os. bulls £5 to £l3 ss. springing heifers £9 17s (id to £lO. dairv cows close to profit £l2 10s. Manaia.—Fat cows £ll to £l2 3s, good fresh-conditioned cow.? £lO 12s to £lO 18s, store cows £S 10s to £S 17s, bulls £l3 10.5, pigs (small) 19s to 21s (Id. Palmer Road.—Eat eows £ll 4s fid to £ll 17s, good fresh-conditioned cows •■CIO Is to £lO Ills, store cows £5 12s to £7 us, cows and calves £lO 2s. bulls £!2 to £l4 10s, dairy co'.vs in milk £7 15s. dairy cows close'to profit £ll 10s, springing heifers £lO 10s to £l2 ss. Sundries, ineluuding furniture and farm implements, sold at ruling prices. Waverlev.—.Medium fat cows £l2 to £l2 10s, forward stores £9 to £10,55, 2-year steers £ll ISs, eows and calves £9 to £ll 20, 2-year heifers £lO 12s, springers £lO 5s to £ll Is, yearling stfers £5 30s to £0 17s Gd, pigs (stores) 10s to £l. FARMERS' CO-OP. REPORT. Okniawa.—Fat eows £l2 ISs to £l3. fresh conditioned cows £lO 15s to £l2 10s„ forward and store eow.s £S 5a to 10.'" " S ' s P r ' n S'"g heifers £8 Eltham—Eat cows £l2 15a to £l3, fresh conditioned £lO 15s to £l2, forward cows £!) 15s to £lO, store cows £S 10s to £9 12s, small store cows and empty heifers £(i to £7 18s, bulls £oto £l7 15s, 2-year steers sold to £9 19s, yearling to 15-month heifers £3 10s to £0 12s od, steers £4 2s Od to £5 15s, (shorn hoggots 29s fid, weaner -pigs 16s to 19s, store pigs 23s to 29s Gd, porkers £3. sow and young £4 Cs. Hawera.—Fat cows sold at from £l2 10s to £ls 3s, fresh conditioned eows £lO ]ss to £l2, forward eows £9 ]sa to £lO 10a. store cows and empty heifers £7 10s to £9 ss, yearling steers £(i Cs, yearling heifers £3 5s to £0 (is, bulls -C7 10s to £l3 12s fid, dajry eows £lO (o £l2 10s, fat, shorn ewes 29s to 33s Od, woolly fat hoggets £1 15s 3d to £1 ISs! store wethers 27s 7d to 2Ss Id, hoggets 21s !id t.o 2Gs Cd, store ewes 22s to 245, store pigs 26s to £2 Is. Kaponga—Fat cows £l2 10s to £l2 lfis, fresh conditioned eows £lO 10s to £ll 15s, forward and store cow 3 £8 10s (o £lO, bulls £5 :*s to £l4, yearling heifers £4 5s to £5 s<s, dairy cows £lO 59 to £ll, fat, sheep 29s Gd.