COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1919, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

i THE PRODUCE MARKET.. ChrlstchUTch, Mar 2; < There- is. nothing fresh to report in connection with the wheat trade. There Is not a large quantity changing hands at the present time. There is a firmer tone in the oats market, as buyers are finding it necessary to advance their limit of price at country BtatlDns. Sales during the week show that in order to secure supplies for immediate requirements an Incroase on late rates has been paid. Gartons, particularly A grade, aro now worth 3s s<l to 3s (id, and B grade 3s 3d to 3s 4d per bushel at country stations, and consequently very few oats have yet changed l hands there. The harvest is late, and the unfavorable weathor may result in a good deal of grain being discolored. Oatsheaf ichaff has advanced in sympathy with oats, and is now quoted at £4 15s to £5 per ton for primo at country stations. The chaff generally is of good quality this season, but very little has been cut yet. Potato digging in now more general, and consequently the offerings have been more free. The markot has lessened a little during the week, and the quotation now Is £5 10s to £5 IBs per ton at country: stations, according to distance. The* seeds market is very dull, especially" for grass-seeds and white clover. FARMERS' CO-OP; ORGANISATION SOCIETY'S BEFOBT. Opuuako yards on Monday we held our usual' fortnightly sale. There was a full yarding of cattle, and prices showed no improvement on late sales. We quote: tat and forward cows £lO 10s to fill, store cows £5 to £8 10s, boners £2 to £4 17s 6d, bulls £5 to £B, empty heifers £3 10s to £5, weaner steers 355-to £2, weanor heifers 20s to 335, springing hoifers:£B to £lO 10s, pigs 30s. Manaia yards on Tuesday we held a full yarding of cattle and prices were better than, previous sales. Pat and forward cows £lO to £ll 15s, store cows £G to £9 10s, boners £3 to £5 iris, bulls £lO to £ll 17s 6d. weaners 30s to £2 2s, pigs 30s to 335, good lambs 20s, store lambs 0s 6d, dairy cows £lO. Stratford yards on Tuesday there was a good yardln? of stock, and prices- were much better 'than late sales. We quote: Lambs 13s 8d to ■ 14s, cull wethers 15s, owos 14s 9d, forward cows £9 10s to £lO 7s, store cows £6 to»£7 :os, Sonera £3 to £O, empty heifers £3 10s to . S4 10.% weaners 20s to £2 130. Inglewood yards on Wednesday, at our usual sale there was a fair yarding of cattle and ! sheep,, and prices wero the same as late 3ales. owes 235, store lambs 0s Id to 9s Id, (Kill ewes 5s to 7s 3d, forward cows £8 to ■ £9 10s, store cows £5 to £7 ).os, boners £3 (to £4 10s, butts £7 to £9 17s Od, weaners 20s |;to £3, In-calf liolfers; £5 10s:to £7 10s, dairy cows £8 to £lO. Auroa yards on Friday there, was a full yarding of stock and sold at advanced prices. i'Fat cows sold at from 10 Km to £ll 10s ijforward cows £8 10s to £9 10s, store cows £5 iito £7 10s, boners £3 to £4 10s, weaners 20s Ito £2; lambs 10s, bulls £3 10s to £lO. LONDON WOOL SALES. London,. April 30. . Eh*" A:. H. Goldfinch, at the meeting of the jWooirCouncU, said that there was a regrettable Idisparity in the April sales Mwoen the ruling prices and the Government Issuo prices. The letter wereiso much lower that li was difficult to snt'afy thß large applications far a direct 'issue, and to find an equitable basis for the i distribution of the quantities available, but the |difficulties would rapidly, disapponr. Arrivals Ito April 21 were .115,000 talcs' merino, 383,000 .bales crossbreds and 104>000 oUier kinds. Subsequent cargoes brought the total tor four I months to 1,017,588 bales. It was safer however [ to reckon the arrivals at 050,000 bales, a number which was fully equ.-J to the 1915 record figures. The shipments afloat totalled 460,000 bales, of which 217,000 were merino. Shipping I arrangements were now working freely and | there was every reason to expect that three million hales would arrive in 1919, which would l.e considerably in excess of domestic reauireI mente. ,

The Allied restrictions on Imports by neutrals bordering on Germany had now been removed and complete free trade re-established regarding the export of finished woollen textiles to Denmark, Holland and Switzerland. Guarantees against ra-export to Germany were demanded from Norway and Sweden. The same facilities for exporting yarn, tops and wool could also to granted by Britain, subject to a license which was imposed solely for the protection of British manufacturers.

LIVE STOCK SALES. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Hawera branch reports as follows: At Kakaramea, on Monday, 2Sth ult„ there was a heavy yarding, and a good attendance of buyers Practically everything was disposed ?!,„ e «? y auctlon or P'lTOtely after the bale Prices were as follows: Fresh conditioned cows £7 9 18, to W 18s; store cows, £3 5s to £6 2s 6d; 2 to 2%-vear in-ralf fiioM 7 !, 6 , d ft £8 16s; «£ mS fclO 53 to £l2 15s; empty 18 to 20-month £»4?t» e *V£.s? £3 "• M ' ™"°<S £2 41 to £2 8s Gd; weaner steers (extra good), £3 15s; good weaner heifers, £2 0s to £2 0s Bd; weaner heifers, £1 0s 6d to £2 4s; mixed weaners £1 15a to £2 4s; small 2-tooth wehands at the following prices: Fresh conditioned cows, £8 5s to £8 16s; others £6 14s £"?, £ L l2 ?. ed; atOTa c °™. £5 to £0 125% %^ 6 15 *; 20-month in-calf heifers, £5 19s; 2%-year in-calf heifers, £9 10s to £9 Ijs; Jersey weaner heifers, £2 2s- mixed weaner heifers, 16s 6d to £2 4s; forward dittoed etyes. 19s 9d to 22s;' stoTe lamb,; At Hawera, on Ist instant, there was a ennri KE n W!. dMBw ot ™«e and sheep, which cows Ee £9 I, lofto fite" 8 - f ° f " oWinß »rt<»*lM K»I7.H. * ° "Si fOTOII com. £S 4s £2wlL% 0 t et \ f, 6 m,O £s ls stores, bi ius to £5 ss; bul s, £5 4s to £l4 in.-2%-year Holstein heifers, rwb £9 5s to er'steers %? «IW h J! lfe ™' *'.' er steers, fc.l ius to £2 4s; bf lambi l■*» <m o 14s; cull lambs, Cs 8d to 8s 7dV emnS 2 tooth ewes, 27s 6d; small sto?e pigs! 2fa t &. "."v 1 "* 8 3t ?? piR3 ' £3 IZs; young sows close to> farrow, £5 10s. ■>«""» nows.