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Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1922, Page 2

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tONDON MARKETS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, *Feb. 1. Waihi shares, buyers 17s 6d, sellers 18s; Dalgety’s, £64 10s. At the tallow sales 2591 casks were offered and 1951 sold. No demand for fine mutton or beef, but lower quality advanced 6d io Is per cwt. Fine mutton 425, medium 38s; fine beef 425, medium 37s 6d. Stocks amount to 9912 casks, imports January 4709 casks, deliveries 3189 casks. At the mixed wool sale there was good Home and Continental demand for both merinos and crossbreds at late rates. Wheat.—The Woodfield’s cargo sold at 51s 6d per quarter, and Grelisle’s at 525. Cargoes steadily held with little change in prices. Australian is rather in favour.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Brisbane, Feb. 3, The wool sales closed with an easing tendency 'and values 10 to 20 per cent, the previous sale. A feature was the high prices paid for faultles, which realised comparatively higher prices than the better classes. Melbourne, Feb. 3. Barley.—-English, 4s 4d to 4s 6d; Cape, 3s to 3s Id. Oats.—Milling, 3a 3d to 3a 4d; feeding, 3s to 3s 2d. Maize, £s lOd. Potatoes, £3 15s to £4 ss. Onions, £6 10s to £7 10s.

TIMARU WOOL SALE. SPIRITED COMPETITION. By Telegraph—Press Association. Timaru, Feb. 3. The second wool sale of the current season was held to-day, zhe catalogue aggregating 12,001 bales. The average quality was fully up to the standard for a January sale. There was a very large attendance of Home, foreign and colonial buyers, and competition was spirited, especially i’or the better descriptions. Tbe demand for iherlnos was specially keen, also for fine haifbreds, which sold on a par with gates ruling at Dunedin, The demand for the three-quarter-bred was erratic. Up to noon the range of prices was: Merinos 19%d, half-bred’l6%d. POULTRY MARKET. (Nolan and Co. report: Hens Is 7d to 3d cockerels 2s to .3s 3d, small 8d to la 9d, ducks 2s 6d to 4s, turkeys 13s. Webster Bros, report: Hens Is lOd to 2f 6d; ducks 2a lOd; cockerels Is 9d to 2s. NEW PLYMOUTH HAYMARKET. There was a fairly large penning of pigs at Newton King, x.td.’s, New Plymouth haymarket yesterday, but very little demand. Slips made from 5s to Bs, and stores from 9s to 19s (according to size and quality), pedigree slips £2 2s each. ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET. SPIRITED SALE FOR LAMBS AND SHEEP. Christchurch, Feb. 1. There was a spirited sale at Addington to-, day for fat launbs, mutton, and store sheep, a substantial advance on recent values being recorded in each instance. Fat cattle was the only section to meet with a weak sale.

Store fekeep.—A large entry (mostly lambs) a keen sale, and an advance in all classes. Good rape lambs made to 20s 6d, forward lambs 16s to 20s 6d, good rape lambs 13s to 15s 7d, medium 10s 6d to 12s fid, small and inferior 8s ta 9s 9d, culls 4s Id to 7s 9d, good crossbred 4,6, and 8-tooth ewes 15s 3d to 15s 7d, ordinary 6 and 8-tooth ewes 13s 6d to 13s lid, two-tooth wethers 10s to 10s 6d.

Fat Launbs.—-7840 were penned, compared with 4875 last week. There was active competition from exporters, and the bulk of the entry went to them at BV&d to 8 5-8 d per lb. Freezers paid up to 28s Gd per head. Extra prime lambs realised 2«s to 31s 11/. prime 23s 6d to 25s 9d, medium 19s 9d to 23s 3d, light and inferior 13s 6d to 19s.

Fat Sheep.—Smaller yardings and a correspondingly keener demand. Priune wetlprs and ewes were up 2s to 3s per head, and inferior sorts Is 6d to 2s. Prices generally were too high for exporters. Extra prime wethers realised 26s 6d to 32s 2d, prime 22s 3d to 25s 9d, medium 19s to 225, light prime ewes 235, prlmje 17s 6d to 20s, medium 14s 6d to 17, inferior 10s 6d to 14s 3d. Fat Cattle.—Except for prime (medium-weight steers, the market was easier. Extra prime steers made £l3 10s to £l5 10s, prime £9 to £l2 12s 6d, medium £6 15s to £8 15s, lighter £5 to £6 12s 6d, prime heifers £5 10s to £7 17s 6d, ordinary £3 7s 6d to £4 7s Gd, prime cows £5 5s to £8 ss, ordin-r ary cows £2 15s ;to £5.

Vealers.—A fair-sized yarding, but few good calves were included. Runners sold at £3 15s, good vealers £2 10s to £2 15s, medium £H 10s to £1 12s Gd, small calves from 3s upwards.

Store Cattle.—A small entry and a somewhat better sale. Good two-year and 2%-year steers made £4 7s 6d to £5 7s 6d, ordinary two-year steers £3 10s to £4 2s Gd, yearlings 26s to 355, 18-mohths old heifers £4, medium cows 27s to 355, aged and inferior cows 10s to 20s, good bulls £5 5s to £7 ss, inferior bulls 15s to £2.

Dairy Cattle.—A largo yarding. The bulk of the entry changed hands at • satisfactory prices. Good second and third calvers, springing, made £9 10s to £l2 10s, good springing heifers £9 10s to £l6 10s, ordinary heifers £5 5s to £9, cows in imitk £3 10s to £9 10s, aged and inferior cows 20s to 80s. Fat Pigs.—A small entry, a keen demand, and improved prices. Choppers made' £3 15s to £5, light baconers £3 10s to .£4, heavy £4 5s to £4 12s 6d (average price • per lb 6%d to 7d), light porkers £2 7s to £2 12s, heavy £2 15s to £3 (average price per lb 7%d to 8d). Store Pigs.—A small entry, and prices were about the same. Best stores made 34s to 455, medium 28s to 335, small 14s to 255, good weauers 14s to 16s, others 9s to 13s. BURNSIDE STOCK SALE. HEALTHIER TONE REPORTED. Dunedin, Feb. 1. The Burnside sales to-day were well supplied with fat stock in all departments and a healthier tone prevailed. Values for sheep and lambs were firmer-, lambs in particular meeting with spirited competition. The prices to-day for good lambs were about 3s per head higher than those realised a f ew weeks ago. The demand for export was the eh:ef cause for this changed aspect. Fat Cattle.—A moderate yarding, numbering 195 head of good average quality. There was an improved deunand at the opening of the sales and values were from 16s to 15s per head in advance of last week’s rates. Prime oxi beef was worth up to 2Gs per 1001 b. Primo bullocks realised from £ll to £l3 2s 6d, medium £8 10s to £lO, light and unfinished sorts from £7 upwards. Prime heifers realised from £8 to £9, medium £6 10s to £7 10s, light and aged from £5 upwards. Sheep.—A moderate yarding, numbering 1953 head of fair quality. There was a larger percentage of ewes offered taan of wethers. Competition was brisk, freezing buyers being strong competitors. This resulted in all classes of sheep realising better prices. The average advance all round was about 2s per head above last week’s rates. Prime wether mutton made about 3%d per lb, or’a trifle better, and ewe mutton slightly over Hd. Extra prime heavyweight wethers realised from 28s 3d to 30s, prime 23s to 275, medium 18s Gd to 225, light and unfinished sorts from 15s upwards. Extra prime heavyweight twes realised up to 20s Gd, prime 17s 6d to ISs 3d, medluqi 15s to 17s, light and aged from 12s upwards. Lambs. —A large yarding, numbering 1190 head of fair quality. The demand at the outset of the sale -was keen, and became more so as the sale progressed. Prices showed an advance of about 3s per head compared with last week’s rates, values working out at about 7d per lb. From the vendor’s point ’ of view this was easily th 6 best sale of the season. Prices ranged from ISs to 28s per bead. A few pens of very poor and small-

sized Lambs realised from 12s 6d to 15s per I-head; ■ • 1 Store Cattle.—A very poor yarding of inferior quality was offered. For this class of animal there is a very poor demand, and tbe market will doubtless .continue in the same lifeless condition -until an advance takes place in fat. stack values. The few sales which were effected to-day were at very low prices.

Pigs.—A medium yarding, all classes being represented. Only a moderate demand was experienced and values on the whole were 7s Gd to 10b per head below those ruling last week. Prime baconers realised from 6%d to 6%d per lb, and prime porkers from 6%d to 7%d. PRICES AT JOHNSONVILLE. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., and Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., report on their Johnsonville fat stock sale, iield yesterday, as follows:—Stock came forward In excess of advertised numbers, but nevertheless met with a very keen demand. ■ All classes of sheep showed a rise of 2s 6d.-tr»: 3s per head, lambs, especially, being keenly competed for, and although the quality was not good they sold up to 8d per pound. Some good pens of ewes and wethers were yarded* cattle sold at late rates, but vealers showed a sharp rise. The following are the ■ priced realised:—

Cattle.—Best bullocks £8 12s 6d, £8: 17a 6d to. £9 ss, medium do £7 10s, £7 12s 6d, £7 15s to £B, cows £3 I7a 6d, £4 ss, £4 7s Gd to £4 12s 6d, heifers £3 ss, £3 7r 6d, £4 5s to £4 7s 6d, vealers £1 9sj £1 10s, £1 13s, £2 2s, £2 .6s 6d to £2 9s Gd. Sheep.—Best wethers 20s 9d, 20s lid, 21s, 21s lOd to 225, medium do 19s, lOd to 20s, light do 18s 2d to 19s 3d, best ewes 17s 2d, medium do 14s 2d, 14s lid, 15s 2<J. .to 15s Gd, light do 12s lOd to 13s Id, medium lambs 20s lOd, 21s 2d, 21s 3d, 21s sd; 22s lOd to 235. Pigs.— Porkers £1 13s.