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Newspaper
Albury Banner And Wodonga Express
Location
Albury, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 26, 1908
Page
4
Commercial listing shows current Albury prices for butter eggs ham bacon chaff bran pollard potatoes onions and related commodities. Includes unit measures such as 1/5 lb for butter and 6 cwt for potatoes with prices in shillings per quantity.
Market notes from Albury and Sydney detail prices for flour, wheat, oats, maize, butter, and chaff. Butter prices range from 1s to 2s 4d, flour delivered at £9 10s, oats quoted 3s 3d to 3s 5d, maize around 4s 3d, and chaff values between £3 and £6 12s 6d, with dull trading noted in several items.
Chaos L Griffith and Co. run the Wodonga fortnightly market listing 200 head cattle 500 crossbred weaners and various merino weaners. Fat cattle and store cattle sold well with firm values. Best fat bullocks and cows priced across ranges. calves and sheep sold and priced. Clearing sale at Bethanga June 13 hinges on household effects and cattle. property transactions include leasing 450 acres to Menzies and McDonald and land private sale near Euroa.
Younghusband Row and Co report a steady market with a lighter fat cattle forward. Prices ranged from bullocks to £12/10 and up to £13 for prime pens, cows to £9, and veal to £5/10. Store cattle were plentiful but generally poorer, with prices steady despite good rains.
The record lists medium quality items sold at full rate to several owners including W. 8 Cheshire jun., Annandagle station exora I Richardson J A M'Kensie W Clutterbuck Elliott R K Brown W QGuoncey and others.
Herbert Power and Son describe brisk bidding at the Wodonga fortnightly market on Tuesday with limited fat and store cattle, best bullocks reaching £12/18, cows to £9/17/6, and store cattle selling well as Germanton Walwa and related sales show varied but steady demand. They also note a private sale of the Spring Creek property, 6300 acres on the Upper Murray, to Mr J T Whitehead for cash.
Market of fat cattle described with yarding mainly medium quality and some prime, prices steady to firm for top stock. Store cattle stronger, vealers and cows listed with prices. next sale slated for July 7. Named buyers and agents credited.
Peck Sons and Mulqueeney report their fortnightly Wodonga yard sale on Tuesday 23rd met with fat cattle and few stores. Prices ranged Bullocks £8-£10 17/6 cows and heifers £5-£9 10 vealers £2 10 to £5 11 with strong demand and full clearance of fat cattle. Next sale set for Tuesday 7th July and a clearance sale at House Creek State School on Saturday 13th met with fair value furniture and pony gelding £15. Also sold 100 bullocks to a Goulburn Valley buyer and 70 head of mixed cattle with Northern agents.
Moesrs B H Smyth and Co hold their regular sale at Wo donga yards on Tuesday June 23 with lighter cattle and sheep numbers. Fat sheep sold well for top quality, lambs around 18/6, pens of 49 at 186, 61 at 154, and 9/6 to 11/6. Fat cattle met keen demand. top price 13 for James Aymington’s bullocks, other bullocks varied, cows 5/15 to 7/10, vealers to 5/5. Steers two years old at 4/16, drayage for several firms noted.
Private reports indicate 26 store bullocks were sold for Mr. P. Larsen at a satisfactory price. List of bidders or buyers includes M. Stephens J. Stephens Barflett Jas. Bym ington T. Dyring R. Turnbull G. W. Back haus A. Backhaus BR. H. Reid Wm. Kent Kt. Barton H. J. Reid BR. Reid aen. M. Park Jnn. Dizon J. G. Wire and others.
Drummond and Co with Walter Day report selling a large area of Brooking Station near Lockhart for the Australian Estates and Mortgage Co Ltd. The sales total 8422 acres at prices ranging from £3 12s 6d to £5 10s per acre, yielding a purchase sum of £40,478 10s.
The Gordon Brook clearing sale on the Clarence River began June 15 with nearly 10 000 stock head offered, including purebred Durham and Devon cattle and many horses. Buyers from Victoria Queensland and New South Wales attended as spirits rose and prices strengthened with final days focusing on stud horses and favorable overall results for owner T A Field.
On Monday June 22 at Sydney Market, 22 964 of 25 768 sheep penned from 99 consignors with two drafts, merino wethers and ewes dominate, crossbreds scarce, naval buyers present. Cattle yarded 691 from 16 consignors with brisk bidding and a rise of 10s per head. Prime merino wethers firmer, lambs short and firm, prime bulls and cows show gains, overall market mixed but firmer in parts.
Melbourne market on Tuesday June 23 yarded 21 000 fat sheep mainly middling and inferior. Demand improved with prices advancing 6d to 1 per head over last week, though late in session good and prime lots showed wavering demand and weaker prices. Quotations for prime crossbred wethers ranged 20/6 to 23/6 with a few higher.
Fat Lambs see 4000 penned with brisk demand and higher rates. Prime ewes crossbreeds and merinos quoted. inferior lines at lower prices. Fat Cattle yarded 1700 with large buyer turnout. prices rise early then ease to near prior quotations. Prime bullocks £13/10 to £15, extras to £16 7/6, cows £9/15 to £10/15, inferiors £4/10, averages cited for key lots.
A study of the sixteen ships set to visit Australian waters reveals most are eight years old or younger, with two built in 1900 and seven of the largest from 1900. Total tonnage stands at 225,778 and borrowing cost at £11,035,776. Wartime establishment lists 11,972 officers and men, though actual crews will be smaller on arrival.
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