OVERSEAS MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 198, 22 August 1932, Page 4

OVERSEAS MARKETS.

FROZEN MEAT.

The New Zealand Meat Producers' Board has received the. following cable from its London office, dated August 19, advising that the following are the approximate average prices realised for the week, based on actual transactions of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of meat mentioned, and are for representative parcels of the goods offering during the week, being for business done on the basis of delivered to Smithfield market and/or ex London stores:— Sheep.—Canterbury and North Island selected crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, 48/561b, 3%d per lb; 57/641b, 3%d; 65/721b, 2%d> North Island, 48/561b, 3%d; 57/641b, 3d; 65/721b, 2%d; ewes, 481b and under, 2%d; 48/641b, 2%d; 65/721b, 2d. Lambs.—Canterbury, 361b and ■ under, sd; 37/421b, sd; 43/501b, 4%d; second quality, average 331b, 494 d; other South Island 361b and under, sd; 37/421b, sd; 43/501b, 4%d; selected North Island brands, including Downs, 361b and under, 5%d; 37/421b, sd; 43/501b, 4%d; second Duality, average, 311b, 4%d; other North gland brands, first quality, 361b and under, 4%d; 37/421b, 4%d; second quality, average 311b, 4%d. Australian Lambs.—Victorian, first quality, 361b and under, 4%d; 37/421b, 4%d. Argentine Lamb. —First quality, 361b and under, 4%d; 37/421b, 4%d. New Zealand Beef.—Ox, fores 2%d, hind's 3%d. „ „ , Argentine Chilled Beef.—Ox, fores 2%d, hinds 6d. Australian Frozen Beef.—Ox crops, over 1001b, 2%d; ox hinds, over 1601b, 3%d. New Zealand Porker Pigs.—6o/1001b, sd; 101/120lb, 4%d. Baconers: 121/1801b. sd. Lamb market: Steady. Abnormally hot weather continues, and consumption generally has been affected. Mutton: Wethers, market quiet and unchanged. Ewes remain firm, with good inquiry. Beef: Quiet, owing to lower prices of Argentine chilled beef. New Zealand "porker pigs: Market quiet and unchanged. Baconers: Nominal.

COTTON, RUBBER, JUTE, ETC

LONDON, August 20." (Quotations on August'l2 in parentheses.) Cotton.—Spot, 5.76 d (5.51 d) per lb; September delivery, 5.60 d (5.42 d). Rubber.—Para, 4%d (4%d) per lb: plantation and smoked, 2 15-32 d (2 7-16 d). Jute.—New crop, August-September shipments, £18 5/ (£l9 15/) per ton. Copra.—August-September shipments, South Sea, £13 15/ (£l3 17/6) per ton; plantation, Rabaul, £13 17/6 (£l4). Linseed Oil —£15 10/ (£ls 10/) per ton. Turpentine.—€l/9 (61/) per cwt.