OVERSEAS MARKETS.
| MEAT EXPORT TRADE. PRICES AT SMITHFIELD. ! The New Zealand Meat Producers' Board advises that the following are the approximate average prices realised for j 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 tlio week, being for business done on the basis of delivered to Smithlield market, and/or ex London stores: — Sheep.—Canterbury-North Island selected crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, 4Slbj anil under, s'Ad; 48/561b. 494 d; 07/641b, 4%d; 63/721b, 4%d; North Island, 48/oGlb, 4%d; 57/li4lb, 4V£d; Uj/721 b, 4%t1; ewes, 481b and under, 4%d; 48/641 L), 4d; 65/721b, 3"/ ad. Lambs.—Canterbury, 361b and under, 7Vid; 37/421 b, 7 3 / ad; 43/oOlb, 6%d; second quality, average about 311b, 7d; other South Island, 361b and under, 7%d; 37/421b, 7lid; 43/501b, O'/sd; North Island, Downs, 361b and under, 7%d; 37/421b, 7'/4d; 43/501b,'0V£d; second quality, average about 301b, 7%d; North Island, lirst quality, 361b and under, 7%d; 37/421b, 7%d; second quality, average about 311b, 6%d.
Argentine.—First quality, x new season's, 361b anil under, 7d; 37/421 L), 6Vzd. { I Frozen Beef. —New Zealand: Ox hinds, I 145/2101b, 3%d; ox fores, 140/2101b, 2v4d. Australian: Ox hinds, 145/'2lolb, _3%d; ox crops, weights corresponding, 2%d. Chilled Beef. —New Zealand: Ox hinds, 145/2101b, 5%d; ox fores, 145/2101b, 2%d. Argentine: Ox hinds, 145/2101b, 6d; ox fores, 143/2101b, 3%d. Uruguayan: Ox hinds, 14j/2101b, 5%d; ox lores, 145/2101b, 2%d. Australian: Ox hinds, 140/2101b, 5Hd; ox crops, weights corresponding, 2%d. Southern Rhodesian: Ox hinds, 145/21011), 5%d; ox fores. 145/2101b, 2d. New Zealand Porker Figs.—First quality, GO/80lb, (i'Ad; 81/1001b, 6'Acl; 101/1201b, 6%d; baconers, 121/1601b, 6%d. Lamb market: Steady and unchanged. Mutton: Wethers, market steady and unchanged; ewes, firm with prices of lightweights slightly better. Beef: Frozen beef market quiet and unchanged. Chilled beef firm with fores at slightly higher prices. New Zealand porker pigs: Meeting with good trade at the unchanged prices. Baconers: Nominal. Stocks short.
| COTTON, RUBBER, COPRA, ETC. I LONDON", October 3. ' (Quotations on Sept. 26 in parentheses.) Cotton. —Spot, 7.02 d (6.73 d) a lb; November delivery, 6.68 d (6.48 d October). Rubber.—Para, 10% d (lOMid) a lb; plantation and smoked, 7%d (7%d). Jute. — September-October shipments, £17 5/ (£l7 1/3) a ton. Hemp.—Quiet. Copra—October-November shipments, South Sea, sun-dried, £13 10/ to Londoi; and Rotterdam (£l3 15/) a ton; South Sea, smoked, £13 7/6 to Marseilles and Genoa (£l3 5/); plantation, Rabaul, hotair dried, £14 10/ to London and Rotterdam (£l4 15/). Linseed Oil. — £27 (£27 10/) a ton. Turpentine.—39/6 (38/0) a cwt. SHARP RISE. PRICE OF SILVER. British Official Wireless. RUGBY, October 3. Silver is quoted at 20 l-16d per ounce for spot and forward transactions, compared with 10 5-16 d on Friday.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 236, 5 October 1936, Page 4
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