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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3185, 3 April 1911, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

PRODUCE SALES

Messrs Miller and Craig report, on their. auction sales field on Saturday as follows: —Hens is 3d to Is 7d, roosters Is to 2s, ducks Is lid, eggs Is 6d to Is 7d ; butter 9d and Is, potatoes, 9s 6d sack, onions 5s 6d sack, pickling onions. Id to lid per lb pumpkins, 6s per doz marrows 2s doz, citron melons 10s doz, tomatoes 3d lb, pears 3s case, apples 2d to 2ld’ per lb. Messrs F. 9. Malcolm and Co. report that the following prices were .realised at their auction sales on Saturday: Hons Is 3d to 2s, cockerels Is to Is 4d, eggs Is Sd to Is lOd, bacon (sides) 6d, butter lOd and lid pears, lid to 2d lb, apples lid to 2id per lb, tomatoes, 2id lb, quinces 3s 6cl case, onions 5s 9d per 1001 b bag, pumpkins 3s to 4s doz, marrows Is to 3s doz, vralnuts 3id lb, rhubarb 3s 6d doz. The samples of potatoes that are coming forward are very poor and the prices ruling are low.

HORSE SALES. About 70 horses ware yarded at Messrs Williams and Kettle’s bazaar on Saturday. There was a fair attendance of buyers. Hacks sold at from £3 to £l6, and a pair of buggy .horses brought £36. A number of coaching horses were offered on behalf of Mr Lardelli, and brought from £7 to £23. Mr A. G. Ratten’s turnout., consisting of a pair of ponies, American buggy and harness were passed in at £BO. The racing mare Spate also failed to find a purchaser, being passed in at 70 guineas, and the mare Plaything was passed in at 20 guineas. No offer was received for a Strowan mare with a Multifid foal at foot. A trotting mare with foal at foot to Lord Kitchener was passed in at £2l, whilst a pair of black buggy ponies sold for £22. FROZEN MEAT. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., received the following cablegram from their Londou office on Saturday: Demand for the moment is very quiet for mutton and lamb: market slightly better for beef.

, LONDON WOOL SALES. A GENERAL RISE IN PRICES. [UNITED PKESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, Alarch 31. At the aa'ool sales the Rangatira clip realised 10Jd (top price), the average being 9gd; AYeteAvaipa, top price lid ~aA r erage 9fd; Tomone, top price Ll4d, average 9§d; Alauntenu, top price 164 d, aA’erage lS^d. jIONDON, April 1. The wool sales closed strong at the highest level of the series. Compared with the January sales choice Geelong combings Avere a penny dearer. Good greasy combings and good scoured 1\ to 10, faulty carbonising sorts 5, and fine crossbreds 7\ per centum higher. Other sorts were fully 5 per cent higher, crossbred lambs 10 per cent, and merinos 5 to 71 per centum higher. The totals sold Avere 120,000 bales for the Home market, 72,000 bales for the Continent, 3000 bales for America, and 38,000 bales held over. The following AA’ere the prices realised for the fleece portions of the clips named:. AYaiau. price 9 Id, average 9Jd ; Bry 10cf and 94d ; Poporangi Is and 9gel; Wharanui, 13d and lQgd • Waretau, 16d and 14-Id.