COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1918, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON HAKEEMS. Received Sept. 14, 5.5 p.nc London, Sept. 1?.. Wheat.—Market quiet, no Australian offering. A fair quantity of imported flour is selling at late rotes. Oats and beans continue to advance. There are no colonial offering, English peas are flnner, but colonial are unchanged. Good arrivals of New Zealand and other cheese are enabling a full distribution for the trade's requirements. The purchase of colonial butter is still unsettled. It is understood the delay' is due to the Ministry of Food not havinoyet received the War Cabinet's sanction for a complete purchase Sugar is unchanged. AUCKLAND MARKET. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:— At Westfield store, stock and dairy sale, good sound cows and heifers £ls to £l3 ss, others £l2 10s to £ls 15s, poorer and backward £3 10s to £l2 5s j empty cows, poor, £5 12s Od to £S ss; calves, £2 18s to £4 15s, small and weedy £1 15s to £2 10s; yearling heifers, to £6. x At Albert yards good medium draughts, .£l6 to £l9 lo S ; lighter draughts and poorer mediums, £l2 10s to £ls 15s; light harness sorts, £S to £l3 10s; hacks, £5 10s to £l7 15s; aged and crippled, £1 to £5 ss. At Pukekohe yards: Best dairy cows £lB 10s to £2l 15s; good sound "wing cows, close to profit, £ls to £l7 15s, others £l2 10s to £l4 17s Od, older and poorer sorts, £7 10s to £l2; extra choice 3-ycar Shorthorn heifers, £2O to £24, good ditto £lO to £l9 10s, others £ll 15s to £ls 10s, poorer nnd smaller £0 15s to £ll 10s.

At Westfield fat Btock market: Choice ox £2 18a per 1001b, others £2 13s to £2 17s; cow and heifer beef £2 6s to £2 15s per 1001b. Steers £2l 15s to £27; cows, from £8 10s to £l7 ss; heifers, from £l2 5s to £l4 123 6d. Calves: Runners £6 15s to £8 17s 6d; heavy vealers £4 7s Od to £6 12s Gd, medium £3 5s to £4 7s 6d, light, 35s to £3 2s 6d; small and fresh dropped, 6s to 345. Sheep: Heavy prime wethers £2 28 to £2 6s, medium to heavy prime £1 18s 6d to £2 Is 6dj, heavy prime owes £1 18s to £2 0s 3d; good fat ewes £1 14s to £1 17s Od, others £1 lis 9d to £1 13s 6d. A small yarding of hpggets met ready sale at from £1 5s to £1 os. Fat rams, £1 14s to £1 16s fid. Pogs: Heavy baeoners sold up to £6 ss; large porkers £3 IQb to £5 12s Gd, medium £2 18s to '£3 9s, /small £2 5s to £2 Idas store pigs, £1 8s to £1 18s; weaners £1 Is.