OVERSEAS MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 45, 22 February 1929, Page 4

OVERSEAS MARKETS.

BRADFORD TOPS. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 12 noon.) LONDON, February 21. The Bradford market has a slightly more cheerful tone, but business is very small. Quotations:— Sixty-fours, 43V2d; sixties, 41d; fifty-sixes, 32d; fifties, 28d; fortysixes, 22*/4 d; forties, 21 , / id. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE. SYDNEY, February 21. The following are to-day's quotations on the Sydney produce market: — Wheat. —At country stations, 4/1%; ex trucks, Sydney, 4/9%. Flour.—£ll 10/. Pollard and Bran.— £6 10/. Potatoes. —Tasmanian, £19 to £20; Victorian, £18. Onions.— £9. Oats. —Algerian or white, 4/6. Swedes.—New Zealand, £1j to £34 a ton. Pumpkins.—New Zealand, £18. Adelaide prices are: — Wheat.—Growers' lots, 4/8 to 4/10%. Flour.—Bakers' lots, £10 12/6. Bran.—£6 10/. Pollard—£6 17/6. Oats—2/6 to 2/8. (Received 11 a.iu.) MELBOURNE, this day. Wheat, 4/10 per bushel; flour, £11 to £11 5/ per ton; bran, £6 15/; pollard, £6 15/; oats, 2/11 to 3/ per bushel; barley, English 4/ to 4/3; maize, 4/10 to 4/11. MELBOURNE HIDES. MELBOURNE, February 21. At the Melbourne hides sales to-day the market was irregular, except for stouts, which were %d lower. DAIRY PRODUCE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., has received the following cablegram from its London house, dated February 21: — Butter. —Choicest salted, 176/ to 178/. The market is dull, nothing doing. Cheese.—White: 85/ to 86/; coloured, 87/ to 88/. The market is quiet. WHEAT CARGOES, ETC. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, February 21. Cargoes show a steadier tone. The demand is quiet, and values unchanged. Ex Alfred Nobel, 47/6. Parcels are steady, with poor business. Liverpool futures: March, 9/2% per cental; May, 9/5; July, 9/7%. Spot trade is quiet but firm. Australian, ex ship, 50/. Flour is quiet. Australian, ex store, 36/6. Oats, peas and beans are firm.