COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 827, 29 September 1906, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

WEEKLY MAKKET REPORT. (Special to tbe "Age.") The New Zealand Farmers', Cooperative • Distributing Company, Limited, Wellington renort as follows: — Maize, 4s per bushel; wheat 3s iOd; oats, prime feed, 2s 9d; discoloured 2s 7d; barley feed 3s 3d ; Cape seed 3s 6d; Unseed, whole, £ls per ton; rice meal, £5 per ton; pollard, £6 5s to £G 10s nor ton: bran, £4 10s to £4 15s per ton; oocksfoor, to 4d per lb; prime oaten sheaf chaff, £4 10s to £4 15a per ton, weak; potatoes: Prime Australian, £il; locals, £ll 10d to £l2, market steady; seed potatoes: Up-to-dates, £ls; Australian Kidneys, £10; Derwents, £ll 10b, Brown Rivers, £11; Prairie Seedlings, £l2: Early Vermonts, £l2; Amerioan champion, £l3; onions, Aastraltanp, £11; locals, £9 to £9 10s, good demand; butter, separator, IOd; dairy pats, lOd, supplies wanted; eggs, fresh, 1%, firm, supplies short; b*con, sides, j bams, 8d; rolls, 8d; apples, dessert 14e 6d; cookers, 12s, good demand; dressed pork, 60's to 100's, sd, been enquiries; oabbage, 6s 6d, cauliflower, 7s 6d per saok; asparaguß, lOd per bundle, brisk sale; swedes, £2, Blow sale; parsnips, 5s per saok, carrots, table, £2 10s, slow sale; poultry: table roosters, ss6d; oookerels, 5s to 7s; table hobs, 4a 6d to 6s; ducks, 7s 6dall at per pair; turkeys, gobblers, 9)£d; hens, Bd, live weight; dressed poultry, roosters, 9d; hens, 6d; turkeys, gobblers, IOd; hens, 6d. Poultry of all kinds in first-class demand. MARKET IMPORT. Tha following wholesale prices are quoted locally, September 29th, 1906. £ a. d. £ 8 d. Flour, s'ks 11 0 0 Wheatmeal 11 0 o Pollard 0 10 0 Baled Straw 1 10 0 Chaff— Baled Hay 2 5 0 Best Oaten Barley new 4 0 0 fearl 18 0 o Oaten Straw Onions 10 0-n chaff, new 115 0 Split Peas 18 0 0 Oatmeal 13 10 0 Potatoes 10 0 0 Bran 5 0 0 Pkk Bushel. Wheat, fowl 3 3 Beans 4 3 "Oats, short .. 2 8 ,Barley, feed 3 0 Oats long ~ 2 8 Blue Peas 4 n Oats, dun .. 2 8 Partridge Peas 3 6 Maize ... 4 0 Per lb. Hams .. 7 Bacon 7d Cheese ..6 W.F.C.A. reportButter- Eggs 8d Dairy 8d Separator 9d STOCK REPORT. Messrs Abraham\ and Williams, Ltd., report un their saie&t Palmerston <North, on Thursday, as follows: —ft[e had a large entry of cattle, every pen being full. The greater portion consisted of female stock, for which the demand is still poor and prices consequently low. Aay lines of young steers sold readily/ and a good inquiry exists for these. Sheep were in short supply and prices still remain firm. Good forward wethers made 21a 2d, hoggets 14s lOd to 15s 9d, small hoggets 10s 2d to 10s 6d, 2-tooth wethers 17s 6d, ewes ana lambs 21s 3d. Sow and litter £4 15s. Three and 4-year bullocks £5 10s, 2-year steers £2 14s to £3 3s, 18-montbs steers £2 4s to £2 7s, yearlings 30s to 35s 6d, mixed yearlings 23s 6d to 265, 2-year heifers 33a to 375, heifers in calf 27s to £2 10s, springing oows £4 to £6, store cows 20s to 295. THE WOOL MARKET. Received September 28, 10.14 a.m. ADELAIDE, September 28. At the opening Wuol sales of the season tho decline in London did not have so depressing an effect as was expected. There was good competition. Scoured wool sold to 19d, and greasy to lid. Received September 28, 11.17 a.m. I LONDON, September 27. Wool is exceedingly Arm. There is keen American competition for merinos and fine crossbreds. Gear sold at 11 %d; Woodlands, U^d.