COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8208, 11 August 1906, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

EKETAiIUNA STOCK SALE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile 00. and Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., held theii fortnightly sale at the Eketahuna yards, yeater day. Sheep were represented by ewea in lamb and hoggets, all finding purchasers. The ohief entry of cattle was springing cows and beifers, but ae it is somewhat early for Eiretahona factory suppliers, only, a few sales were effected. Ewes in lamb reached 17s 3d to 18s, hoggets 12a sd, two pets las 9d, good apringiug heifers 70s, good springing oows 935, calves 18s 6d.

.WEEKLY MABKRT REPORT. (Special to the Wairarapa Age). The New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Distributing Company, Ltd., Wellington, report as follows: —Maize, 4s 6d per bushel, Australian 4s 3d; wheat, 3s lOd to 3s lid, firm; oats, prime feed 3s, discolour 2s 6d; barley, feed 3s 3d, Cape seed 3s 6d; linseed, whole, £ls per ton; rice meal £5 per ton; pollard, £6 5s to £6 10s per ton; bran, '£4 10s to £5 per ton: cocksfoot, to 4d per lb; prime oaten sheaf ohaff, £4 10s to £4 15a per ton, {[market steady; straw chaff, oateu £2 10s, wheaten £2 5s per ton, poor demand; prime wheat straw, 47s (3d per ton: potatoes, prime Australian £l2, looals £l3, bare; seed potatoes, Up-to-dates £ls, Kidneys £l4, Derwents £ll 10s; onions, £9 to £9 10s per ton, in good demand; butter, separator Is, dairy pats Is, supplies wanted, very firm: eggs, fresh Is 2d per dozen, preserved Is, market weak; honey, 5d per lb, wanted; bacon, sides to 7d, rolls 7^d, hams (s)iid to 7d; dressed pork, 60's lo 90's ~sd, 90's to 100'e sd, keen enquiries; apples, dessert 10s to 12s 6d, cookers 9s, in great demand; cabbage, 3s 6d; cauliflower 6s 9d; carrots, table £3, horse £2 15s, good demand; swedes, £2 per ton, market glutted; poultry, table roosters 5s <3d, cookerels 5s tu 7a for good birds, tablebens 4s 6d to ss, duoks 6s Gel (all at per pair), turkey gobblers, 9d, bens 8d (live weight); dressed poultry, roosters 7d, hens 6d, turkeys, gobblers lOd, hens 8d; poultry of all kinds in first-class demand.

MARKET IiEPORT. Tha following wholesale prices are quoted locally, 11th, 1906.

£ a. d. s d. Flour, s'ks H 0 0 Wheatmeal 11 0 0 Pollard 7 0 0 Baled Straw 1 10 o ChaffBaled Hay 2 5 0 Best Oaten Barley new 4 0 0 Pearl 18 0 0 Oaten Straw Onions 10 0 0 chaff) now 1 15 0 Split Peas IS 0.0 Oatmeal IB 10 0 Potatoes 10 0 0 Bran 5 0 0 PEH BUSIIEI,. \Vheat, fowl 3 3 Beans 4 3 Oats, short .. 2 8 Barley, feed 3 0 Oats long 2 8 Blue Peas 4 0 Oats, dun .. 2 8 Partridge Peas 3 G Maize 4 0 pKR T/Ii. < Hams 7 Bacon 7d Cheese W.FG.A. report— Butter G£d to 7ijd E{,'gs Is 8d