COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 7 January 1911, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

MARKET KEPOF.T

PALMERSTON N. WOOL SALE. (By Telegraph—Special to the Age.) Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., -report:— We held our /h'sv sale of 1911 on Friday, 6th January, and offered an average catalogue to a good attendance of buyers. Bidding for wool and skins was not-keen owing, no doubt, to the fall in prices at the recent wool sale-- in Wellington. -Our calfskins and hides sold readily, but prices were lower tluffi last sale rates.. We quotesWool: Crossbrea fine, 7Jd to B|d; crosbred medram, 6Jd to 73d; dead, 7d to 7£d; Southdown, 8d; lariibs, 4£d to 8-Jd; black, 6d to 6Jd; locks and pieces, 2£d to 4£d; bellies and pieces, 5-Jd; crutchings, sd_ Skins: Crossbred medium to fine, 6£d ;to 7d; crossbred medium, 5* d tb>6sd;; inferior, 4*d'; dead, 32-d t,o s£d; black puarter and half-wools i'id; hoggets, 4kl; lambs, 43-d to 6jd; salted crossbred, ss; salted pelts, Is Id'to 2s; lambs,, salted, 2s 4d; calfskins, sound B|d to Ojdj cut,..sJd ; ; dry, sd; yearlings, 5d to. 7cL Hides: Ox heavy, 6*d to 6Jd;'.medium,.Bid to 6fd; light, 6-J-d to, 6§d; cow, medium s|d to 6d-d; light, sfd to 6*cl; qows-cut, 's|}d; heifers and steers, s|d ;bulls, 5d to 5Jd; horse, 5s 6d. Tallow: Tins, £23 15s per ton; casks £24. to £26 per ton.-

The following are the wholesale buying prices quoted locally, JAN' 7, 1911:— Per Ton. £ s. d: £ s. d. Flour, s-'ks 10 10 0 Wheatmeal 10 10 0 Pollaid 710 0 Baled straw 110 0 New ciiaff— Baled Hay 3 0 0 Best Oaten 3 10 Pearl , Oaten Straw Barley 14 0 0 chaff 2 0 0 Onions 9 0 0 Oatmeal 13 10 0 Split Peas 16 10 0 Bran 6 10 0 Potatoes n. 6 10 0 Per Bushel, "Wheat 3 6 Beans 4 3 Oats 2 5 Barley feed, 2 6 Oats, long 2 5 Blue Peas 5 6 Oats, dot 2 6 Partridge Peas 6 3 Maize .36 .' ■. ,„. ■ Psr Lb. Itsir Bacon 7id Eintei.factoryl , 0 Eggs 9d dairy. 0 8