COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8311, 14 December 1906, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

PAHIaTUA STOCK SALE. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:— W« held our weekly Pahiatua stocK sale on Tuesday, when a larger entry than the advertised number came forward. The quality of the stock, particularly of the sheep, was good, and an unsatisfied demand still exists. Socue good salea were effected, one lot ot 300 woolly ewes 90 per cent, lambs making 275, the best price obtained locally 'cbis season. Other sheep sold well in comparison. CattJe made late values, and an improved demand seems to be establishing itself for steer cattlo. At the close of the sale most of the stock yarded had changed hands. We quote:—Two-tooth ewes 14s lOd, mixed 2-l;oofchs 14s 3d to 14a lid, 4 tooth maiden qnos 16s, empty ewes 12s lOd, 13s Id, and 13s 3d, ewes and lambs (all oounted) 9s to 9s 6d, ewes and lambs 275, owes in Inmfa 13a Gd, empty heifers 25s 5s and 355, springing heifers £2 17s Grl to £3 ss, yearlings £2 os, 29a, 37s 6r» and £2, 2 and 2 *{. -year Gteers £3 lVs Gd, 18 month steers £2 7a 6d, store cows 25s to 30s.

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT. (Special to the Wairarapa Age}. The New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Distributing 00,, Ltd., Wellington, report as follows: Maize, 3a 8a per tashel; wheat, 3a 3Ocl (firm); oats, prime feed 2s 7d per bushel; barluy, feed 3s 3d; liu seed whole £ls per ton; rioe meal £5 per tou; pollard, £5 5? to £5 10a per ton; bran, £4 10a to £4 15s por ton; cocksfoot, 3>od to 4d per lb; prime oaton sheaf ohaff, £4 per ton at rnilo; potatoes, old £5 per ton, new (!ooal), Up to-Dates £B, reds £6 per tou, (market weak); onions, Sydney, new sensone, £7 10s (market weak); hatter, separator 9d, dairy pats B}4a, (alow of sale); eggs, fresh la (brisk enquiries); porkers, 60's to 100's, iy,d por lb; baoon, sides liams Bd, rolls 8d; cabbage, la to la (id per sack; rhubarb, 5s per* dozen; «reon peas 5d to Gd per peck; tomatoes, 12b to 13s per half case; gooßebfirsioe, 5a per half case; red currants, 4s 6d to 5s per half case; black currants, 7s Gd per half case; ohemes, Ofl to 7t> per half case; carrots, table, fid por dozen; poultry, roosters 4a Gd to ss, uockerels 4s Gd to ss, table bens 3s to 3a 9d, ducks Gh to 7s Gd (all at per pair), turkey gobblers lOd, bens 8d (live weigh); diesaed poultry, xooaters 7d, hens Gd to 6d, turkey gobblers lOd, bens Bd.