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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 118, 18 May 1920, Page 6

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LONDON PRODUCE. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLE. MEAT PRICES FIXED. RATIONING TO CEASE. (By Telegraph. —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, thb day. The Department of Agriculture has received the following cablegram, dated May 16, from the High Commissioner for New Zealand In London :- I Meat.—l-Toiu the 17th of May the following wholesale prices have been fixed for New Zealand mutton: —Mutton: Cut ewes. ;7d Ib; uncut ewes, Sd lh; cut wethers and leg.-. Sd la; uncut wethers and tegs, "Jd. Australian, jd a lh less, except for uncut wethers and tegs, which remain at 9d. Lamb: No change in price. 1/1; retail prices 'rep from control. Butter. —The average price for English butter is :;>2j lb; Itlsu creamery, £16 lti/ per cwi: f.utory. ilj per crwt. The Ministry of I'ood announces that in view of flic lower prices and the Increasiiing supplies, rationing will be abolished on ihe-.3')ih of May. but the present maximum wholesale a nil retail fixed prices for Go\'eminent- controlled butter will remain in 'force. ■Hemp.—The Manila market is quiet, and prices are slightly weaker, but at the cloee moderate business was done at a decline, present quotations for "J" grade are: — January-March shipment, £66; FebruaryApril and March-May shipments, £65, sellers; AprlWune to July-September shlpmente sold at £Co. The New Zealand closing quotations were:—High points, spot £.i!), Kebrnary-Aprll shipment £04 and £.:yJ. respectively. Honey—Xo change since last report.