BETTER MEAT MARKET.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 45, 21 August 1931, Page 10

BETTER MEAT MARKET.

Messrs. Cathie, Dempster, and Co. havereceived from Messrs. Sheed,' Thomson, and Co., Ltd., London, to-day the following cabled report on the frozen meat market: Lambs, 2's, ~%d, Sd; S's, VAA, 7%d; 4's, 7d; 2nds, 7'4d. 7%<1. Wethers, I's, -7's, sd, 5%d; 3's, 9's, s's. 4d. 4%d. Ewes, l's,\ 7's, 3 7-Sd, iVnl; 3's, 9\s,' s's, 3 3-Bd, 3%d. Ox, beef hinds, 3%d; fores, 2 ]/id, 2>/4d. Cow, hinds, 3d; fores 2d. Porkers, 5%d, 6V4d. Baconers, sd, 5!4d. Lamb niavket, firm; ■wethers, firm with upward tendcncir; ewes, beef, and porkerp. steady; baconers, quiet; tallow, unchanged.

"BUTTER FIRM" LONDON DAIRY MARKET (Received 21st August, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, 20th August. The butter market is firm and busineS! is fairly ' active. . Danish, 136s percwt choicest salted New Zealand, 114s to 110s Australian, 110s to li2s. Uhsaltcd but tcrs are from one shilling to two. sliil lings pvemium in the above prices.. . The cheese market is also firm. NewZea laud, white 62s to 63s per cwt, colonrec C4s to 655; -Australian,:- white 60s to 61s coloured 61s to p2s.. NEW SEASON'S EXPORTS. Spacer allotments have been made foi shipments of .'dairy- produce during thi remainder of August and 'to 20th October Twelve vessels will provide space be tyreen them for 575,800. boses of buttei and 110,410 crates of cheese. All cargc will be for London excepting by three vessels which will carry part cargoes tc West Coast-ports of the; United King dom. . All the produce exported will be of new season's make, excluding 10,00( boxes of butter aud .43,000 crates pi cheese. The British market has stood ur well this yeai' to heavy imports of butter produce from all countries, for th< imports of May; June, and July wer< generally accepted as records for then respective months. ■■■".■ . Messrs. Dalgetyand Go. have '.received a cablegram from Messrs. Samuel Pag< and Son> London, 20th'August, as follows: Butter—Market firm. Danish, 134s to 136s New. Zealand finest salted 114s to 116s Australian finest; unsalted 110s to 112s salted 110s to 112s, G.A.Q. 106s'to 108s Cheese—Market firm. Australian white 61f to 625, coloured 62s to 635; New Zealand ■white C2s to'63s, coloured 64s to 655; spoi price if or Canadian white 62s to 645,. coloured ;62s to 655; c.i.f. price- for Canadian, 62s to 635. ; ;;■■■,: . •, \ ; BRADFORD TOPS PROSPECTS, y ' (Received 21st August, 9.30 a.m.) . . LONDON* 20th- Aagnit. The Bradford tops market reports verj little business passing, and it is highlj probable that concessions -would be obtainable'by buyers; ■■■.... Latest cabled! quotations compared; \ntih earlier; prices' are as follows:— '•'■■■ 9tV 16th 23rd' 30th • • July. July. July. July, Perlb. Perlb.Terlb. Perlb - d. d. , d. . d. Seventies ..25 24& 24 2iM Sixty-fours . . 23 . 22 ' 22% 23 Sixties. ....21 20% 20% 20M Pifty-sixes . 14 14 14% 14% Fifties....... ViVx 12 12% l<2Vt Forty-sixes . 10 10 10 10 Forties ...,; 10 10 10 10 Messrs'. Wright; Stephenson and Co., Ltd;, and Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report having received cable advice from their Bradford agents regarding the tops market reading as folKws:—"Merinos, %d clown. Fine crpssbreds, %d up; medium and coarse crossbreds, %d up. A fair amount of inquiry but very little business } passing. Vpffers are too-low for accept lance.".. ■', ■ - -.- . .. - ■■-.- BEET SUGAR! (Received- 21st August, 9,30 a.m.); -■■'".'•■■'- LONDON,-20th August. The price of beet sugar, September delivery,vis 5s B%d per. cent. WHEAT AND OTHER PRODUCE. ' (Received 21st August, 12.30 p.m.) uri .. ■ LONDONi 20th ' August;';Wheat cargoes are steady, and parcels are in fair .request. , Futures:--London 1, Beptember I^s sd-per; quarter, .December 18s 2d; February 18s; lOd. Liverpool-Oc-tober 3s ll%d'per cental, December 4s Id, March 4si3%d, May 4s 6d. ■ Spot-trade js moderately active and occasionally lower. Australian ex ship, 20s to 22s 6d. Flour-is quiet,' Australian es store 16s 6d, 17s; oats are steady, and peas. alid beans, are quiet. -. AY AND T. BURT, LTD. ; The- "Mercantile Gazette" announces that A. and T. Burt, Ltd., .Dunedin, has reduced its .capital, by cancelling paid-up capital to the extent of 8s per share on each of the 99,650 fully paid up ordinary shares of £1 each and by reducing the nominal amount, of the 100,000 ordinary shares from £1 to 12s per share.

Timber—

« ■., price an In the table hereunder, notified sales 20th August are recorded with the higl approximtae yields per cent, per annum other debentures, where dated), based on and the last annual: dividends, plus bonu Stock and Bonds are free of. income tax. INVESTMENT. . : jfr'* . ..•'-.., per cent Government Loans— stock am) ......;.:.. ' s % Stock (1933) „ ill Stock (1936) ; ...... . "5% stock (1937)......:::::::: ■• 14 ' Stock (1938) . . . "' Ail , Bonds. (1937) .............'.7.7.7' 5 Is Bonds (1939) 4% Bonds (1933) " 5% ■■ Bonds (1936) . ",•••" ,£ Bonds (1938) '" 4% .Bonds (1937) ........\......,.'!.' 514 Lotal Body LoansWellington City (19.il) ....... 5^ Deyonport Boro. (1943) SM Central Electric Pwr. Br. (1957) 5% . .Central Electric Pwr. Bd. (1055) 5% Mt. Eoskil] Ed.Bd: (1960) ... . 3%. Booth; Macaonald; (1932) .6% Company Debentures— N.Z.'Breweries (Bonds), 1933 .... 10 ■ Banks— ; ; '; '.• '',-.- : ■"'■ - Australian Bank of Commerce 4 Bank of New Zealand ..... 141-J Bank of-New South Wales* . 9% .Commercial of-Australia" ........ 11% Commercial of Australia (pref.).* 4 National of New Zealand ...... 10 Union Bank 7 Breweries—' New Zealand Breweries ......... 12% Staples ...... ■.-..-..;. 10 Finance and Pastoral— 'V'. Dqlgety : . 10 ' . Dominion Bankiiig and Inr. .... 7 Goldsbrough, -Mort ; ... 5 N.Z.. Guarantee Corp.. (8s) 81-3 j United Building ... '. .- , .5 Gas—..' . : .' .' Auckland (ord.) ' 8" InsuranceNew Zealand Insurance ..'...... 10 i Meat— : .■ '."■ '; ' '■ ■ • ■" Gear 10 N.Z. Refrigerating (10s) — Mining and Oil— - Cornish Point . .. Golden Point (Is) ............. — Oolden Progress ..'. Grand Junction 16 2-3 King Solomon . : . ,' — llahakipawa — Moturoa Oil ' ....!.... — Okaritd ...: — Waihi G.M. . ....40 Shipping— . NortliDrn Steamship 7 Timber— ..-.■' Kauri ; 2% WoollenWellington (ord,)t ...; 6 MiscellaneousBritish • Tobacco 10 Colonial Sugar ; y>\<, Mount Lyell 10 Wilson's Cement 12% Sharland & Co. (ord.) 7 Sharland, & Co. (pref.) 7 ' Wool^orth (pref.) : 9 *Cum div