HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLE.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 124, 22 November 1926, Page 11

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLE.

The Department of Agriculture has received the following cablegram, dated the 20th inst.,, from the High Commissioner for New Zealand, London:— BUTTER. Fair demand for stored New Zealand and Australian. All others slow. Official quotations are:— New Zealand.—Finest salted: Old, 138s to 142s per cwt (la 2%d to 19 3d per lb) ; new, 14Ss to 150s per cwt (Is 3%d to Is 4d per lb) ; other qualities, 13'0s to 136s per cwt (Is ijd to Is 2(d per lb). New Zealand Control Board official minimum prices are: Finest salted, 150s per cwt., (Is 4fl per lb); first grade, 149s per cwt (Is 3%d). Australian. —Salted: 138s to 144s per cwt (Is 2%d to Is 3<A(l per lb); exceptional, 14Cs ncr cwt (Is 3Jd per lb). Unsalted, IS4S to 158s per cwt (Is 4%a to Is 4%d per lb); exceptional, 160s per cwt (Is 5d per lb). Othor qualities, 11G3 to J4os per cwt (Is o>id to Is 3d per lb). Canadian. —13Cs to 140s per cwt (Is 2>/.d to Is 3d per lb). Irish. — Creamery;. 140s to 144s per cwt (Is 3d to Is 3Hd per lb), up to 14Gs per cwt (Is 3ted per lb). TJnsalted: 150s to 154s ]>cr cwt (Is 4d to la 4>/ 2 d per lb), up to 15Ss per cwt (Is 4%d per lb). Argentine.—TJnsalted, 138s to 140s per . cwt (Is 2%d to Is 3d per lb), up to 142s per cwt (Is 3d per lb). Other qualities, 120s to 134s per cwt (Is o%d. to Is 2}id per lb. Siberian. —128s to 134s per cwt (ls'ld to Is 2Vid per lb) ; other qualities, 124s to 12Cs per cwt (Is Id to Is l^d per lb). Danish. —170s per cwt (Is 6>Ad per lb). CHEESE. . Colonial market quiet. Official quotations English Finest Farmers.—Nov., 102s to IOSs per cwt (109 id to llVid per lb). Demand is good for finest. Canadian.—Coloured and white, 85s to SSs per cwt (9d to 9%d per lb). Now Zealand.—Coloured and white, S4s to 80s per cwt (Od per lb). Control Board minimum pricos for coloured and white are: Finest,. 85s per cwt (9d per lb) ; first grado, 84s per cwt (Od per lb). Shipment of New Zealand pr'oduco arrived this week per s.s. Remucra. OTHER PRODUCTS. Tallow.—Market quiet. Pre'scnt quotations are:—Mutton: Finest) 42s Gd to 43s per cwt; filir to- good, 40s 6d to 42s per cwt; dark to dull, 38s (id to 38s fid per cwt. Beef: Sweet and/or mixed, 41s 6d to 44s Gd per cwt; fair to good, 39s 6d to 4ls per cwt; dark to dull, l!7s Od to 3Ss Gd per cwt. Mixed: Fair to Kood, 39s to 409 6(1 per cwt; dark to dull, 37s Mto 38s Cd per cwt. Gut. etc., 35s (id to 37s per cwt. Casein.—Present quotations are:—French* rennot, £55; Argentlno Rennet, £45; Argentiuo lactic. £sii. Kemp.—Manila market firm. "J" grade, November-January shipments, sold up to £48. Sisal market firmer with littlo better demand. No. 1 Tanganyika, November-January shipments quoted 843. New Zealand market flrm but quiet; November-January shipments quoted sellers, £38 10s. Fair afloat sold £36 ss; November-January shipments, £36. Stocks In Great Britain 31st October, 21 tons, against 133 tons siimo time last year. Apples.—American : Little more demand for barrels, but "slow sales for boxes. Trices for barrels iiro:—York Imperial. Stayman's Wlnci sap, and Ben Davis, 18s to 24s per barrel; Alhcmarlc, Newton Pippin, 30s per barrel. Prices for boxes aro: Jonathan, Newton Pippin, and Delicious, 8s to 12s per box; Cox's Orange, 20s to 25s per box. . Wool.—Bradford market steady and fair business doing at last quotations.