COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1921, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

CHEESE AND BUTTER. LONDON MARKETS. Messrs. Sheed, Thomson and Co., Ltd., London, cabling on November 4 to Messrs. Cathie, Dempster and Co., Wellington, report as follows : Cheese.—The market is steadier; white 965, colored 88s. Butter.—The demand is slow. New Zealand free supplies 2025. DAIRY PRODUCE MARKET. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., have received the following cablegram from theib Rondon house under date 4th instant:— i New Zealand Butter.—'Market slow; £lO to £lO 2s per cwt. Cheese.—Better market, quotations unchanged. Last quotations: White £4 16s per cwt., colored £4 6s per cwt. INGLEWOOD SALE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) There was a very full attendance at Newton King, Ltd.’s .mart sale on Saturday. Only a few r were offered, and they sold at from 4s to’ss. Pigs were plentiful and all the pens were occupied, so that late arrivals had to be sold in the carts they were brought in. Weaners made from 9s 10 20s, slips 22s 6d to 32s 6d, small stores 34s to 365, better quality 40s to 72s 6d. Rimn posts sold at Is Id, small chickens went for sd, well-grown Is Bd, cocks and hens made from 2s to 4s 3d, dueks Is 6d to 2s lOd, Pekin drakes 5s 9d. NEWTON KING, LTD. REPORTS. At Urenui on October 31 a moderate yarding was practically all cleared at the hammer. Prices were on a level with late rates. Stora cows 30s, 2-year-old steers 365, 3-year do. £2 12s 6d, £3, £3 10s. 15-month heifers £2 7s 6d, £3 10s, springing heifers £ll, £l3 10s, £l4 10s, poorer quality do.' £7, £9 10s, heifers calved £S 10s, dairy cows £7, £l3 10s, Jersey bulls, yearlings £2, £3, 2-year-old do. £l2 10s, £l6 15s, £25 10s, fat sheep 12s 3d.

At Stratford on November 1 store and forward cows and yearling to 15-month heifers comprised the bulk of the store yarding. For the former competition was considerably keener, values strengthening in consequence. Yearling heifers imade no movement with the exception of one i>en of choice Jerseys sold on account of Mr. A. J. Smith, Cardiff, which realised a record price for this season, £l5 ss, Mr. J. T. Walsh being the purchaser. Dairy cattle close to arid at profit realised satisfactory prices. Ewes 7s, store cows 21s, 295, 375, forward do. £2 10s, £3 15s, fat do 1 . £4, £4 17s Gd, yearling steers 10s, 15month heifers 355, £2, £2 16s, better quality do. £4, £5, £6 ss, extra choice Jersey do. £l5 ss, springing heifers £7 10s, £9, £ll 10s, better classes £l2, £l5 15s, springing cows £7, £9 10s, £ll.

At Inglewood on 2nd Inst, a big yarding of cattle came forward and almost everything sold at the hammer. Store prices showed fittie- or no improvement. Dairy cattle, heifers especially, sold with a much brighter tone, prices keeping in advance of recent levels right throughout the sale. Store cows 225, 31s. fresh conditioned do’. £2 -2s 6d, £2 14s, fat do. £3 -10 s, £5 17s 6d, 15-unonth steers

I7s, 265, 15-month heifers, best £4 13s, £7l 10s, medium classes £2 2s 6d, £2 10s, ■ poorer sorts 22s 6d, 31s, springing y heifers . £lO ss, £l3 10s, £l5 10s, poorer quality do. £7 15s, £th dairy cows £B, £lO, £l3, Setter quality do. £l7. At. Rahotu on November 3 quotations were as follows: 15-month steers 20s, store cows I 23s 6d, fat do. £3 17s 6d, £4 ss, 15-month j heifers 295, £2 5s 6d, well-grown do. £2 1 19s 6d, £3 10s, springing heifers £6 15s, i £9, heifers calved £8 ss, £lO, springing cows £9, 2-year-old Jersey bulls £lO, £12,1 FARMERS’ CO-OP REPORT. The Farmers’ Co-operative Organisation ’ Society of New Zealand, Ltd., market report; for the week ending November 5 is as follow:! At Eltham we bad a fair yarding of sheep i and cattle. Dairy heifers showed a big drop j in prices, while other cattle showed a slight 1 increase, particularlj’ fat and forward cows. 1 We quote as follows: Fat and forward weth-; ers 15s, fat ewes 10s, fat cows £5 15s to j £6 10s, forward cows £2 5s to £3, stores l unid boners at late rates, yearling steers £1! 2s Gd, yearling heifers £2 5s to £3. i At Hawera on Thursday we had a. full ‘ yarding of both sheep and cattle. We quote: ; Store pigs £7 7s to £1 17s 6d, porkers -£2 : 15s, weaner pigs 9s to £l, fat ewes 11s to i 11s 3d, forward wethers 12s, fat cows £6 to ' £6 14s, forward cows £3 to £3 10s, good {

store cows £2 -to £2 15s, yearling Jersey i heifers £5 5s to £G ss, small mixed heifers j £2 to £2 10s, empty 2-year heifers, Jersey cross £6 10s to £B, empty 2-year heifers £3 to £4, dairy cows £6 to £l4,'best dairy heifers £ll 15s, to £l5 10s, others £7 10s to £9 10s, backward sorts £3. At Waverley on Friday we had a large *” yarding of cattle, but only three pens of g sheep, and practically everything was dis- g posed of at the hanrrner. We quote: Weaner S pigs £1 to £1 3s, horses £2 10s ’to £B, | shorn hoggets 10s 7d, hoggets in the wool 12s g j Id to 12s 4d, fat empty heifers £4 Ils, a empty 2-year heifers £3, veaiers £l, store < cows £1 5s to £1 15s, forward cows £3, 2-year bullocks £2 15s to £2 18s, 3 and 4-J year bullocks £3 Bs, Jersey bulls 6%gns to 15gns, others Ign., yearling Jersey bulls £4 to sgns., heifers £2 to £3 15s, dairy cows £5 to £l2 ss, good dairy heifers £l4 ss, others £4 to £7 10s.

FARMERS’ CO-OP, REPORT. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering • Co., Ltd., Hamilton, report:— At Hamilton on Thursday, November 3, we had a large yarding of cattle, and a moderate entry of sheep and pigs. Beef was plentiful, but- did not meet with as good competition as the previous week, although practically the whole entry was disposed of. Best bullocks made to £ll ss, medium weights £7 Ils to £9 7s, heavy co*s to £6 12s Gd, lighter weights £4 15s to £5 10s. A large number of fresh and store bullocks were penned, competition being steady to the end at late prices. Best made to £5 14s, smaller £4 5s to £5 ss. Store cows were somewhat easier miaking from 21s to 37s 6d. The quality of the young cattle was inferior and bidding at times . was inclined to drag, yearling heifers, medium quality to £4 2s Gd. small and inferior 35s to £2 10s, yearling steers best to 355, small weedy 14s to 21s, Shorthorn bulls to £5 15s. Dairy cows and heifers declined in value, quite a number being passed in. Best cows made from £8 10s to £ll, second quality £5 to £6 10s. Sheep wfre in fair supply but values dropped considerably below last yeek’s rates. No really prim© sheep were penned, woolly wethers ijaade to 19s, shorn 16s to 16s lid, fat woolly ewes t<v 15s 7d, store woolly wethers Ils tq 13s, woolly ewes 10s to 10s 9d, hoggets in wool 9s lOd to Ils.- Pigs were penned in smaller quantity and advanced in value, baconers making to £5, porkers making £2 15s to £3 12s 6d, slips and stores £1 5s to £2 2s Gd, weaners 8s to 16s. Newly dropped calves 4s.