COMMERCIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10299, 7 January 1927, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

SHEER FOR ADDINGTON

DEALERS ALREADY OPERATING

SOUTHERN PRICES HARDENING

As yet this season no shipment of Poverty Bay ewes lias been sent forward to the South Island and it is not expected that many will be got away before the end of the present month. Inquiries have already been mad© at local shipping offices in regard to freight, r.ait no definite dates have been arranged.. Up to tlie present ibis * season dealers have not been keen on buying store sheep on forward delivery, and in comparison with previous years few sales have been reported. Dealers have been operating in anticipation of shipment to Lyttelton at an early date, however, and a few thousand sheep have been bought up in the district designed for Addington markets. Latest advices from the south report a healthy demand for ewes with an advance of Is 6d a head on 2-th ewes, North Island 2-tli ewes fetching 26s to 29s 9cl at last Addington sale.

As in the North Island, however, the demand for ewes has not yet set in, for farmers are not prepared to put the rams out for a month or two yet. There is every reason to expect, therefore, that values will harden even more in the near future.

AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS.

(United Press Assn.—Copyright.) ‘(Received Jan. 6, 5.50 p.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 6. Wheat shows an casing tendency, the local market being depressed. Quotations arc 4s Sd at country stations equal to 4s old cx trucks Sydney. Flour, local £l3 and for export £l2; oats, Tasmanian white giants 4s 3d to 4s od; Algerians 3s 10d to 4s; maize, South African 8s; potatoes, Tasmanian £23 to £2l; local new £2j; onions £lO. ADELAIDE, Jan. 6.

Wheat, growers’ lots, 5s 21d to 5s 3d, oareels nominally S.s flour, bakers lots £l3 7s 6d; oats 2s 4d to 2s Gd.-U.P.A.