COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1920, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

METAL, MARKET. By lilegraph.—Press Asm—Copyright. London, August 19. Copper.—Spot £93 las fid; three months £95 2s 6d; eifcctrolytle £lll and £ll7. Lend.—£3s 10s and £36. Spelter.—£49 and £42 10s. Tin—£27s 10s and £282 ss. Silver, Old. AUCKLAND STOCK MARKETS. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report: At Westfiald store sale, dairy cattle sold at late quotations. Best dairy cows and heifers close to profit, £l6 to £22; others, ditto, £ll to £ls 15s; backward cows and heifers, £ 7 to £l4 10s. Store cii tile sold readily. Empty cows and heifers, £5 to £7 Ids; yearling steers, £3 15s to £5 ss; ditto heifers, £3 to £4 12a 6d; bulls, £5 to £lO 10s.

At Pukekolie, for dairy cattle, good quality and close to profit, competition was teen, high values ruling. Extra choice dairy cows dose to profit £25 to £34 15s; .good cows, ditto, £l6 10s to £24 15cj others £ll to £ls 15s. Extra choice heifers, close to profit, £lB to £26; others, ditto, £l2 to ,£ls IBs; others, £8 to £ll 15s. Backward cows and heifers, best £l3 to £l7 10s; others £8 to £l2 15s. At Pukekolie we held a special horse sale, nnd we report a most successful sale. Unbroken: Medium £ 1(5 to £2B, heavy £3O to £42, light £0 to £ls. Broken: Heavy £35 to £SO, medium £26 to £4O, aged worn faran torts £l2 to £ls, hacks £lO to £26 10s, ponies £3 to.£7.

At Westfleld fat stock market beef was penned In average numbers, being mostly of Inferior quality. Choice oxen sold to £3 per 1001b, prime oxen sold to £2 15s to £2 1.7s per 1001b, plain and Tough oxen £1 17s to £2 10s per 1001b., cow and heifer beef £2 5s to £2 12s per 1001b. Steers sold at from for best £l9 to £24 12s Cd, no extra heavy steers were penned, light prime steers £lO 10s to £lB 17s 6d. others £l6 to £l6 sa; cows and heifers sold at from £8 to £l4 15s. Sheep sold at Improved prices. Heavy prime wethers £2 ss-to £2 10s, medium £2 to £2 4s 9d, light and unfinished £1 17a to £1 19s 9d; heavy prime ewes £1 15s to £2 2s 9d, medium £1 14s to £1 17s 9d, light and unfinished £ 1 lis to £1 13s 9d. ' Lambs sold to high values: Extra heavy prime to £1 19s, heavy prime £1 13s to £1 18s 9d, medium £1 14s to £1 15s, light £1 10s to £1 13s 9d, unfinished £1 6s to £1 9s 9d. Calves sold at late quotations: Bunners £7 to £l2 14s, heavy vealers £5 to £.6 19s, medium £3 15s to £4 17s, light £2 5s to £3 13s, smaller 17s to £2 4s, small and 'fresh dropped 6s to 16s. Pigs sold under steady com. petition at late quotations: Choppers £8 to £9, heavy baconers £7 5a to £7 17s, medium £6 15s to £7 4s; light and heavy porkers £6 to £6 14s, medium £4 15s to £5 19s, light £3 10s to £4 10s; slips £2 to £3 Is; weaners £1 5s to £1 16s.