COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 147, 22 June 1923, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKKTS.

I (Received 10.30 a.m.) [ LONDON, June 21. TALLOW.

At the tallow .sales 1433 casks were offered. Hnd 1201 sold at an average "lclvanc* of fVI ; mutton. fin* , 41i/, medium 38/6; beef, fine 43/. medium 37/0. Wheat cargoes quiet at 3d to 0d lower. Parcels steady and unchanged.—(A. and N.Z.)

The Bnnk of N»»- Zealand has received the following advice from its London office, under date 15th instant:-—

Butter. —Quiet. 152/ to 154/ per cwt. Cheese. — More bus.lneHe passing. Coloured, 80/ per cwt; white, 83/ to 00/ per cwt.

Frozen Meat.—Wether market firm, upward tendency. Ewe market dull, lambs In full supply, market quiet but firm. Beef depreseed owing heavy arrivals Argentine.

Wethers, light. 7Jd to 9d per lb : heavy, DJd to 7d; ewes, 4jd to OJd ; lambs, ]o*d to lljd; seconds, 10d to lOJd; Ox hinds, 4-4(1 to ."xl: foren. -Jid to 8-j; cow hluUs, 41d to 4jd ; fores, 2id to 2Jd.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS.

(Received 11.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. At to-day's sales of hides, owing to the wet condition, the market was generally a farthing lower. Barley: English 3/0 to 3/10. Oats: ?./7 to 8/9. Potatoes: £0 5/ to tlO. Onions: 7/ti to £3 15/. SYDNEY, this day. Oats: Tasmanian and Algerian feed 4/6 to 47. white 4 0 to 4/8, New Zealand 4/C to 4/8. Maize : Ix>cal, yellow o'6, white C/ 3 South African fl.'4. Potatoes: Tasmanian £8 to £12 10,'. Victorian £12 10/. Onions, Victorian lo 10/ to £0.

ADELAIDE, this day. Oats: The demand is- purely nominal.— fA. and N.Z. Cable;.

FOOD PRICES. S?1

Eri?r are again cheaper this week, hens being quoted to-day at 2/4 retail and ducks 2/. Supplies are very heavy, but the lower prices ruling have increased consumption. Bacon nilea at from 7*d to 1/2 per 11) for cuts ami 1/2 to 1/4" for rashers Hams, whole, are quoted 1/1 to 1/2 retail, and In raßhers 1/6. Cheese is 1/2 To 1/4 per lb according to enre. while bntter remains at 1/0, 1/8 and 1/7 for the respective grades.

The boisterous weather prevallinj; has lessened supplies of fresh fleh. Mokie was quoted at Kd per Ib retail to-day, hapuka lOd per Ib, and terekihi at htree lillets for 1/.