COMMERCIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2563, 26 July 1909, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

HORSE SALES

Messrs. Williams and Kettle yarded about 25 horses of various descriptions at their weekly horse sale on Saturday. Hacks sold from £2 to £S 15; harness horses from £3 10s to £l2. The trap, ponies, and harness advertised to be sold were passed in at £SO.

PRODUCE MARKETS

Messrs F. S. Malcolm and Co., auctioneers, report the following prices realised at their produce sales on Saturday: Fowls Is lOd to 2s 2d, ducks Is lOd. roosters 2s, eggs Is 3d, butter 10a to lid. oranges 7s 6d case, hams and: bacon 5d lb, onions 7s cwt, potatoes is cwt, pumpkins 3s doz., melons 4s doz., cabbages Is 6d doz., small vegetables at usual prices.

THE MEAT PRICES IN LONDON.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 24. Regarding- the cable as to the meeting of London meat importers, the Minister of Industries and Commerce said to a Post reporter r “ I have been through that before. That .was abou u 189 S, when -there was a collapse in values. Tho chief holders of meat arranged to .sell at a fixed price, and the market was broken by a certain man in Smithfield undersehmg, and that was not done with his own meat, but with consigned meat.” Regarding advertising, Mr MacKenzie said it was well known that New Zealand meat was well advertised by the Government and others, and was already well distributed, and the causes leading to the depressed values could not be remedied iy spending £SOOO as suggested. The total meat available from all sources in 1899 was 45,325,000 cwt., the population of Britain being then 40,000,000. In 1908 the quantity available was 46,859,000 cwt.. an increase of only about half a million, while the population increased to between five, and six million. The reported glut was largely one of misapprehension.