COMMERCIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2382, 24 December 1908, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

POULTRY 4.ND PRODUCE SALE

Messrs Malcolm and Co report that the following prices were realized at their poultry and produce sale yesterday : Hens 2s to 2s 9d, gobblers 8s 6d, ducks 2s 8d to 2s lOd, eggs Is Bd, po tatoes Id and did, onions 1-id, turnips 10d to Is peck, lettuce and other vegetables at usual rates. Cooking apples 3d lb. They hold a sale to-day, Thursday, at 10.30 a.m. of poultry and produce, following with a furniture sale..

TIMARU WOOL SALE

[Press Association.]

TIMARU, Dee. 23. _ The second wool sale commenced this morning with a total catalogue of 13,307 bales. Before the sale began, Mr. W. Hill, secretary of the Woolb uyers’ Association, said that there had been a great deal of complaint ' about the manner in which the wool was displayed, and buyers had passed a resolution that it the opening and marking of wool were not carried out they would refuse to bid for lots so neglected. Ihe president of the wool brokers promised that the matter would be attended to. Tlio bulk of the catalogue is of coarse descriptions of wool, and this shows a decline of id to id, while hnei grades are realising about on. a pai with those of the November _ sales The top price at midday wife ll 2 d toi six bales of super halfbred, two bales of merino fetching 1U S . Later: —At the wool -sale 13,3 b/ bales were offered as compared with 12,333 last year. Prices generally showed a slight decline. Merino (taken by local mills) showed a slight improvement, but no superior was on offer. The range of prices was: Merino, inferior to medium, Sd to J*d; half-bred superior Hid, hied mm B*d to 10i-d, inferior 6id to quarter-bred superior, 9to 10 2 d, medium 7d to Bld, inferior 6to bid crossbred superior 8 to lOd,-medium 6i to 73d, inferior od to 6 2 d, fust pieces 6d to 63d, second 3 5 d to o 3 d, locks 3Jd.

BUTTER EXPORT

[Press Association.]

AUCKLAND, Dec 23. At the present time there are l/,/U4 boxes or 442 tons, of butter 111 store at Auckland, and of tins 16,/ 49 boxes, or 418 tons, will be shipped to England this week, the shipment being valued at about £42,540. The South African shipments for the fortnight totals 150 boxes.