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Taranaki Daily News, 24 June 1921, Page 2

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TASMANIAN WOOLS LOWER. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Hobart, June 22. The wool sales showed a general reduction of prices. The top price was 15 %d, compared with at the March sales. DAIRY PRODUCE. ETC. RETAIL PRICES. NEW PLYMOUTH. a. d. Butter Creamery (pats) 2 3 Registered dairy 2 0 Separator 1 11 Eggs 3 0 Lard . 1 8 Hams 1 2% Sides Bacon 1 2% Rashers Bacon 1 7 Rashers Ham 1 8 Milk (quavt) 8 FRUIT. Passion Fruit ..............Is 3d doz. Apples (dessert) 6d and 8d Lemons 4 for Is. Bananas 4d Pears Cd Oranges—Californian Sunklst ....... 4s doz. Island oranges 3s and 4s doz. BUYING PRICES. Butter— Registered dairy 1 9 Creamery (pats) 2 1 Eggs 2 9 Fungus 4 Flour—2001b sacks 48 0 1001 b bag 25 6 501 b bag 13 0 251 b bag t 11 STRATFORD P.A.C. REPORT. The P.A.C. report conducting two very successful meat sales last week. Altogether forty sheep, three bodies of beef, and ttree porkers, cut into suitable joints, were offered and sold to a very ready market. We quote as follows: Sheep, hindquarters 6s 6d, forequarters 4s 6d, legs ss, loixis 2s, 2s 6d, Bs, 3s 6d. The average price per lb. was 4d. Beef: Sirloins 6d per lb, prime ribs 5d per lb, riba 4%d per lb, steak roasts 4d to 5d per lb, com beef 4d to 5d per lb. Porkers, average price per lb, 6d to Bd. STRATFORD MART. Lamason’s weekly report is: Last Saturday I had an exceptionally good sale, and all lines offering met good demand. Good poultry, varying strains, were well souoght after. For farm Implements, such as drays, milk cans, etc., there was specially big inquiry. Quotations are as follows: Last year's, 3s, 3s 6d, pullets 6s to 9s, ducks 3s (ordinary), good 4s, 4s Gd, drakes 2s 6d, 3s, roosters 2s, 3s, Barberry 73 to 8s (100), bran 17s (1801 b sack), pollard 28s 6d, barley pollard 28s (good line), sucrosine 355, wheat Ils bushel, mixed grain 7s, chaff £9 ss, 7s 6d sack, prime meadow hay to arrive about £B, about 6s bale, oats ss, potatoes 8s cwt. A large quantity of boots and various sundries were . also sold at usual auction rates. INGLEWOOD SALES. (From Our Own Correspondent.) That the tone of the cattle market is on the up grade, as has been stated in previous reports, was again made evident at the Farmers’ Co-op. sale in their Inglewood yards on Wednesday. There was a good yarding of dairy cattle, including heifer weaners, which in course of time will, as they are intended to, lake their places in the ranks of the butter-fat producers of the Dominion. A good attendance, on business intent, attended the sale, and nearly all lines were cleared under the hammer. Lambs sold at 10s 6d to Ils 6d. The Jersey heifer weaners were not of high class, and realised from £3 to ( £5 Bs. Mixed heifer weaners made from ( 20s, to 50s; inferior steer calves sold for 15s; small 20-month Holstein heifers in calf brought £6 7s Gd; 2-year heifers £5 ss; Jersey heifers up to £l3 15s; springing heifers sold for £7 to £l5, and cows up to £l7. That Inglewood is an Important centre of : the dairy cattle producing districts of North 1 Taranaki, and therefore of New Zealand, has ! ctften been stated, so in support of her 1 claim to that title it is worth, noting that 1 Messrs. Newton King, Ltd., have just sold a ( line of 160 2y s -year-old heifers, forward in j calf, at a very satisfactory price, and which .. are destined io add to the dairy production * of country south of Taranaki. ( HIGH COMMISSIONER’S CABLED REPORT. The Department of Agriculture has received the following cablegram, dated June 18, ' from the High Commissioner for New Zealand, London : MEAT. Trade generally slow, but demand is good for New Zealand lamb and Argentine chilled beef. New Zealand mutton: June 18, B%d; June 11, 6%d, June 4, 6%d, B%d. New Zealand lamb, new season's: June 18, Is l%d, Is 2%d; June 11, Is Id, Is 2d; June 4, Is IHd, Is 2d. New Zealand lamb, old season’s: June 18, lid. Is. New Zealand beef, hinds: June 18, 5%d, June 11, 5%d, 6%d; June 4,7 d. New Zealand beef, fores: June IS, 3%d, June 11, 3>£d, 4%d; June 4,4 d. Chilled beef, hinds: June 18, 10%d; June 11, 9%d; June 4, lOd. Chilled beef, fores*: June 18, June 11, 4%d; June 4, sd. May shipments of beef from all parts to Great Britain are 539,612 quarters frozen, 148,713 quarters chilled. Retail meat prices are as follow :—Mutton —June IS : Legs, English 2s 7d, imported Is sd; loins, English 2s 9d, imported Is; shoulders, English 2s -Id, imported Is 3d per lb. May 21: Legs, English 2s 7d, imported Is sd; loins, English 3s. imported Is 4d; shoulders, English 2s sd, Imported Is 2%d per lb. Lamb—June 18: Legs, English 2a lOd, imported Is 9d; shoulders, English 2s 7d. Imported Is 8d per lb. May 21: Legs, English 2s lOd, imported Is 9d; loins, English 3s 3d, imported, Is 8d; shoulders, English: 2s Sd, imported Is 8d per lb. Beef---June 18: Sirloin, English 2s 3d, Imported Is 3d; ribs, English 2s 2d, Imported Is 3d; steak, English 3s 3d, imported Is lid per lb. May 21: Sirloin, English, 2s 4d, imported Is 4d; ribs, English 2s 3d, imported Is 4d; steak, English 3s 4d, imported 2s per lb. BUTTER. Market quiet. June 18: Danish firmer owing to short supplies, 2045, 208 s, per cwt.. Is 9%d, Is 10& per lb; Irish, 180 s, 186 s per cwt. Is 7 J ,4d, Is 7%d per lb. June 11: Danish, 198 s, 2025. per cwt., Is 9%d, Is 9%d per lb; Irish, 186 s, 190 s per cwt.. Is 7%d, Is B%d per lb. June 4 : Danish, 200 s, 204 s per cwt, Is 9’4d, Is 9%d per lb; Irish, 190 s per cwt., Is per lb. June 18: New Zealand 19'ls, 196 s per cwt., Is B%d, Is 9d per lb; Australian, 1725, 174 s per cwt., Is 6%d, is 6%d per lb; Argentine, 1365, 164 s per cwt, Is 2%d, Is 5%d per lb. June 11: New Zealand, 184 s, 198 s per cwt, Is 7%d, Is 9%d per lb; Australian, 1725. 176 s per cwt.. Is 6%d, Is 6%d per lb; Argentine, 1545, 158 s per cwt., Is 4%d, Is 4%d per lb. June 4: New Zealand, 198 s, 200 s per cwt., Is 9%d per lb; Australian, 178 s, 188 s per cwt., Is 7d, Is 8d per lb; Argentine, 1545, 170 s per cwt, is 4%d, Is 6d per lb. All in slow demand. Free Argentine, 160 s to 170 s per cwt., 13* 5%d, Is Gd per lb. Government prices ex store:—June 17 to June 23: New Zealand, 192 s per cwt., Is B%d per lb; Australian, 170 s per cwt.. Is 6d per lb; Argentine/ 152 s per cwt. Is 4%d per lb. June 10 to June 16: New Zealand 192 s per cwt., Is B%d per lb; Australian, 170 s per cwt., is 6d per lb; Argentine, 152 s per cwt., Is 4%d per lb. June 3 to June 9: New Zealand, 196 s per cwt.. Is 9d per lb; Australian, 180 s per cwt., Is 7%d per lb; Argentine, 152 s per cwt., is 4%d jp« Ik

CHEESE. Market weaker and demand quiet, but steady. Canadian—June 18: White, 965, 100 s per cwt., lO&d, 10%d per lb; colored, 965, 100 s per cwt., 10%d, 10%d per lb. June 11; White, 100 s, 108 s par cwt., 10%d, ll%d per lb; colored, 102 s, 104 s per cwt., lid per lb. June 4: Colored, 112 s, 118 s per cwt, la, Is o%d per lb. New Zealand—June 18; White, 945, 100 s per cwt., lOd, 10%d per lb; colored, 945, 100 s per cwt., lOd, 10%d per lb. June 11: White, 106 s, 116 s per cwt., ll%d. Is Oftd per lb; colored 104 s, 112 s per cwt., lid, Is per lb. June 4: White, 1225, 126 s per cwt.. Is Id, Is l%d per lb; colored, 1225, 128 s per cwt., Is Id, Is l%d per lb. Exceptionally fine white, 2d to 4d more. Australian—June 18: Colored, 90s, 96s per cwt., 100 s per cwt., lOd, 10%d per lb. June 4: White, 112 s per cwt.. Is per lb; colored, 118 s per cwt., Is o%d per lb. HEMP. Manila market dull and depressed. Sellers' present quotations for “J’* grade are:— Spot, £4O; March-May shipment, £3B; JuneAugust shipment, £36 10s to £37 per ton. New Zealand continues neglected and prices are purely nominal. Sellers quote hlghpoints, spot, £4l; fair, £36; June-August shipment, £3B and £35 respectively. WOOL. Sales close to-day with two catalogues B.A.W.R.A. wools. Attendance good throughout and competition keen, especially from Continental section and later from Home trade. Finer merinos have maintained improved opening level; scoured and sllpe met with keen demand and are similarly dearer. Selection crossbreds large, and while fine quality maintained improvement, medium and coarse have been irregular and closed little cheaper. Withdrawals very small and practically all B.A.W.R.A. and free wools sold on the same basis. Average closing values;—6o-64's (merino), June 18, Is Id to Is sd, May 13, Is Id to Is 4d; 56’s (super halfbred), June 18, is Id to Is 4d, May 13, Is to Is 3d; 50’s (halfbred), June 18, lOd to Is, May 13, lOd to Is; 48's (fine crossbred), June 18, 9d to lid. May 13, 9d to lid; 44-46’s (medium crossbred), June 8, 6&d to B%d, May 13, 7%d to 9%d; 36-40's (coarse crossbred}, June 18, 5y 2 d to 7d, May 13, 6d to 7%d. There will be large offerings of crossbreds next series, opening July 11, and in the meantime 8.A.W.8.A. sales will take place at Liverpool, Hull, and Antwerp.