LATE COMMERCIAL LONDON PRODUCE PRICES.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 139, 16 June 1930, Page 11

LATE COMMERCIAL

LONDON PRODUCE PRICES.

The Department of Agriculture has received the following cablegram, dated 14th instant, from- the High Commissioner for New Zealand, London: — Tallow:-No auction this ■week.: Market continues quiet with no change in "prices. Hemp: Manila market dull and easy; "J" grade June/August shipment qxioted sellers £24. Sisal: Market dull and depressed. No. 1 fair average quality- for June/August shipment sold £26 55,.-. and July/September shipment quoted sellers £26 10s. . Mexican: It is. reported. -that Co-operative have reduced price ,6% cents c.i.f. New York, equal to £31 3s per ton. Reduction considered inadequate compared with prices of competing fibres and no sales made. Stocks increasing and- now amount to. 30,000 tons. Prospects are not encouraging. New Zealand: Market continues dull and no business reported. I'ruit: Kangitiki and Zealandic almost clear, and Port Fairy being sold. Granny Smith, 20s to 255; other apple prices unchanged. Difficulty in clearing large Jonathans. Pears: Improved market. Average prices are: Winter Cole, 11s to 13s; Winter Nelis, 13s to las; P. Barry, 12s to 13s; Keiffer'.s, 10s to 12s.