COMMERCIAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10136, 14 January 1911, Page 6

COMMERCIAL

MARKET REPORT. I The following are the wholesale buying prices quoted locally, Jaiiu* ary 14th, 1911: I Pes Ton. t £ s. d. £ a. d. Flour, s'k3 10 10 0 "Wbeatmeal 10 10 0 Pollard 710 0 Baled straw 110 0 New chaff— Baled Hay 3 0 0 Ue£t Oaten 3 10 Pearl Oaten fetraw Barley 14 0 0 chaff 2 0 Onions 9 0 0 oatmeal 3 13 10£0 Split-JPeas 16 10 0 Bran 6 10 0 Potatoes n. 6 0 0 Peb Bushel. Wheat 3 6 Beans 4 3 Oats 2 5 Barley feed, 2 6 Oats, lonjj 2 5 Blue Peas 5 6 Oats, din '26 Partridge Peas 6 3 Maize 3 6 Per Lb. Urn Bacon 7ii Butrr, factory 1 0 Eggs 9d dairy 0 8 •• HOME MARKETS. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London house: — Wheat sold at 36s l£d c.i.f. net Australian cargo; market firm; market quiet but steady owing to heavy stocks. General market prospects not likely to improve at present. \ Oats.— C4artons 18s 6d, Sparrowbills. 18s; market quiet but steady. EKETAHUNA STOCK SALE. Messrs Abraham and* Williams, Ltd., report:—The opening sale at Eketahuna after the holidays 'was held yesterday, .when a full yarding of cattle and a good entry of sheep was submitted by the associated auctioneers. The attendance.' was large, and business at auction animated, practically the whole, of the yarding changing hands at satisfactory prices. Good . bullocks i; and steers were in keen demand. ,sonia good lines of lambs were offered >pufc failed to reach owners' ideas of j value. Sheep on the whole ma'de prices equal to • outside centres. Quotations:— Three-yean bullocks, | £5 2s to £5 10s; 4yr empty heifers, £4; 2yr empty heifers, £3 10s';- store cows, £3 3s, £3 ss, £3 15s to £3_lßs 6d, according to condition; springing heifers, £4-IOsY 2yr heifers in calf, £3 15s; mixed.yearlings,. £2 12s; weaners, 31s; 2-tooth wethers, lis to lis lid ;empty ewes, Ss 8d Ito 9s. ' '