COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 March 1920, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

N.Z. L. AND M. REPORT. At Opunake, on Monday, there was a fair yarding, especially of young cattle. We quote: Store cows £5 6s to £9 103, dairy heifers £» 10s to £l2, 18-raonth heifers H.W.B. £6 lis, weaner heifers £2 15s, woaner steera 32s Gd.

On Tuesday, at Manaia. we had a small yarding. Quotations: Store cows £7 Is to £9 ss, fm. ewes 16s, store plgß £3 ss. At Palmer Road, on Friday, we held our weaner fair when there was a full yarding which sold Teadily. Competition was keen Wo quote: Tat cows £l2 12s Gd. fat and forward cows £9 to £ll 12s Qd, store cows £5 to £8 15s, bulls £0 2s Cd to £ll 12s 6d, Jersey woaner heifers £7, .Torsey cross weaner heifers £3 15s, weaner heifers £2 to £4 ,os, weaner steers £1 2s to £2 10s, males 20s. On the same day at Waverley, we offered a fair yarding, stock selling at late rates. BRITISH MARKETS. * London, March It. In the Bradford tops market there is more inquiry for medium crossbreds, and prices are hardening; 64's quality is quotecr at 153 d, 06's at 03d, M's at 42d.

The recovery in tin is due to speculative buying, also to the demand for consumption on the settlement of the strike. Wheat—Fair trade is being done, including several Australian parcels. Flour.—Quiet.

Oats.—Firm; la Plata on spot, 58s. Beans Quiet; prices unaltered. Peas.—Dull. The official price of home-grown wheat for 1920 will be equal to the average monthly price of imported wheat of the same quality, provided it does not exceed 90s per quarter.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Co., Ltd., Stratford, report as follows :

On Tuesday, 2nd March, we held our usual fortnightly sale in our Stratford yards. There was a fair yarding and good competition for al] young stock. The folloivlnu prices were realised: 4 and G-tooth ewes, 20s fid to 22s 3d; fm. ewes, 12s; pood line of 80 in-calf heifers (mixed), realised £ll 12s to £ll 15s; 18-tnonth heifers, £6 3s to £6 15s; 2H-year in-calf golfers, £0 15s to £9 7s 6d; springing heifers,' £l2 10s; Jersey calves, £3 7s Cd; aged cows. £5 to £7 10s; bulls, £3 12s 6d to £ll 15s.

On Friday, sth March, we l held our usual monthly sale at Matau, when we had a full yarding of stock, every line lielng cleared, the sale of sheep especially being a good one. We sold the following: Lambs. 8s to 10s; shorn lambs, 17s Id; 2-tooth wethers, 24s to 26s lid; 4-tooth wethers, 27s 10d to 30s; 2tooth ewes, 19s 2d to 24s lOd; 4-tooth ewes, 17s 7d to 265; I'f.m. and f.m. ewes, 18s to 22s 2d; raims, l J 4gns to (Romneys); mixed calves. £2; 12-month steers. £3 12b to £4 3s; Bteers, £7 Is to £8; Incalf heifers, £6 3s to £lO 17s Gd; empty hefelrs, £5 (is Gd to £5 12s 6d; weaner heifers, 29s 6d.

HAMILTON STOCK MARKET. The . Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Co. report: Bullocks (heavy, prime), £lf 10s to £2O 10s; medium, £l4 to £IG 10s; cows (prime fat), £l2 10s to £l4; medium fat £lO Ids to £l2; heifers (fat), £lO 5« to £ll 10s; bullocks (3%-year-old), £ll 10s to £l3 10s; cows (fresh-conditioned), £8 5s to £9 10s; good, £7 to £8; steers (2 I ,&- yoar-old), £7 10s to £9; 18-nionths (best), £!> 15s to £7; medium, £4 to £5; small, £2 10s to £3 10s; heifers (2>/i-year 111-calf s.h I £8 10s to £11; yearlings (best), £4 to £5 ss; medium, £3 to £3 15s; dairy cows (best) £l6 to £22 10s; ordinary, £9 to £ll. Sheep—Wethers (prime, shorn), 34s to 38s, medium 28s 6d to 325; ewes (prime, shorn), 29s Gd to 325; store wethers (4tooth), 29s to 325. 2-tooth, 24s to 275. Pigs. —Baconors, £6 10s to £!), porkers, £4 10s to £6, weaners. 15s to St 10s. Horses Heavy draught £45 to £ll6, medium draught £35 to £4O, light draught £24 to £3O. harness £ls to £22, hacks £lO 10b to £2O.