COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8231, 7 September 1906, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

■ FROZEN MEAT MARKET.

By Telegraph -Press Association.

NAPIER, September 6. The followng cabled report of the frozen meat market, at London, has been received "To-day's quotations are Canterbury mutton, Wellington, Napier, and North Island, 3}£d; lamb, first and second quality, 4%d. Beef, hindquarters, 3%d; forequarters, 2%d.

MAaTERTON STOCK SALE.

Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., held their fortnightly sale at Masterton onWednesday. They report as followA fair entry of sheep oame forward,'but only a few cattle. There was a good attendance and competition was keen, all the sheep being sold under the hammer. They quote:—Fat ewes 17s 6d to 20b, ewes with lambs 23a 3d, 17s 9d, 17s, 16s, empty ewes 13a Id to 16s, wetherß 18s 9d, hoggets 12s 6d to 15s, small hoggets 9s.j Fat bullooka £8 ss, cows £2 to £3. Weaner pigs lis to 14s, store pigs 20s.

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.

(Speoial to Age)

'lhe New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Distributing Co., Ltd., Wellington, report as follows: Maize, 4s 4d per basbel. Wheat, 3s lOd. Oats, prime feed 2s lOd, discoloured 2a 8d to 2s 9d. Barley, feed 3s 3d, Cape seed 3s 6d. Linseed, whole £ls per ton. Rice, meal £5 per ton. Pollard £6 5s to £6 10a per ton. Bran, £4 10s to £4 15b per ton. Cocksfoot, 3>£d to 4d per lb. Prime oaten sheaf chaff, £4 10a to £4 15b per ton. Potatoes, Prime Australians £ll, locals £l2 to £l2 10e (market steady); seei potatoes, Up-to-Datea £l6, Anatolian KidDeys £l2, Derwents £ll, Early Rose £l4, .brown Rivera £ll, Prairie seedlings £l2 10s, Peaob Blossoms £l2 10s, Early Vermonts £l2 10s. Onions, Australians £ll, locals £9. Butter, separator dairy pats ll%d, (supplies wanted, very firm). Eggs, fresh lid (firm). Bacon, sides 6}£d to 7d, rolls hams to Bd. Honey, 60's 4per lb. Apples, dessert 10s to 12s 6d, cookers 9s (in good demand). Dressed pork, 60's to 100's sd. Cabbage, 2s 6d. Cauliflower, 4s 6d. Carrots, table £2, horse £1 15s (poor deemand). Swedes, £1 15s to £2 per ton (poor demand). Poultry, table roosters 5s 6d, cockerels 5s to 7s for good birds, table hens 4s 6d to ss, duok 5s 6d (all at per pair), turkeys, gobblers 9d, hens 8d (live weight). Dressed poultry, roosters 7d, hens 6d, turkey, gobblers lOd, hens Bd.