OVERSEAS MARKETS

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 137, 13 June 1938, Page 4

OVERSEAS MARKETS

NEW ZEALAND PEARS. . HIGHER PRICES IX LONDON. LONDON, June 11. Apples are firm. Neiv Zealand Jonathans sold at 0/0 to 11/0 and Granny Smiths at 10/ to 13/ G. Pears are" higher. Aeiv Zealands, by the Mahana and Tain.iroa, sold as follows:—Nelis, 10/ to 11/6: Keiffeis, 8/3 to 0/0; Coles, 0/0 to .12/: Morcean, 7/ to S/. SALES IN SYDNEY. CONTINENT AND JAPAN BUY. SYDNEY, June S. At the Sydney wool sales to-day 7030 bales were oli'ered and 3170 were sold. A turthcr 1800 bales were 'disposed of privately. The Continent and Japan" were the clucf operators. Autumn-shorn wools displaying dust* and also badly-yieldin ,r wools, were in poor demand. Greasy Merino made up to lOd. RUBBER, JUTE, COPRA, ETC. LONDON, June 11. (Quotations on June 4 in parentheses.) Rubber.—Para, 5%d (5%d) a lb; plantation and smoked, Od (5 0-lGd). Jute—July-August shipments, £10 12/G (£lO 15/ June-July) a ton. | Copra. -T-June-July shipments, South Sea, sun-dried, £0 15/ to London and Rotterdam (£9 15/) a ton; South Sea, smoked, £9 15/ to Marseilles and Genoa (£0 15/); plantation, Rabaul, hot-air dried, £10 10/ to London and Rotterdam (£lO 12/6). Linseed 0i1.—£24 10/-(£24 5/) a ton. Turpentine.—3l/ (31/) a cwt. The cotton market is closed.

SUGAR BEET. j LONDON, June 0. I Sugar beet is quoted at 5/1 per cwt. I WORLD WHEAT PRICES. '."•■ . ' LONDON, June 0. Wheat cargoes at the port of London are quoted linn, and parcels easier. are quoted as fellows:—London: August, 34/1 per quarter; November, 28/7. Liverpool: July, 0/2% per cental; October,- December 5/7%. Chicago: July, 74% cents per bushel; September, 75% eentn; December, 77Vi cents. j. Spot trade is quiet, Australian, ex ship, being quoted from 32/3 to 35/ per quarter. Flour is steady, Australian, ex store, selling from 23/6 to 24/0. WHEAT FUTURES. LONDON, June 11. • Wheat.—-Liverpool futures: July, 6/3 11-16 d a cental; October, 5/0%; December, 5/0.