LONDON PRODUCE MARKET

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 20, 25 January 1937, Page 12

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET

The Bank of New South Wales has received the following cable message from London, dated January 22:—London wool sales market irregular. Greasy merinos and crossbreds slightly easier, particularly slightly inferior wools. Scoured merinos steady; crossbreds and slipes very firm. Average or estimated prices of New Zealand greasy fleece ordinary topmaking wools: Merino, 60/64, Is 5d a lb; fine halfbred, 56/58, Is 6Jd; halfbred, 50/56, Is 5J.d; three-quarterbred, 48/50, Is 4d; fine crossbred, 46/48, Is 3|d; medium, 44 '46, Is 3Jd; crossbred, 40/44, Is 3Jd. Mutton.—Ewes, 3Jd to 4 l-8d a lb; wethers, 4d to 5Jd; lamb, 7 l-8d to 7 5-8 d: beef, 24d to 4d; pork, 6 7-8 dto 7 I-Bd. Butter.—93s a cwt. Cheese: White. 535; coloured, 535. RAW MATERIALS. (By Telegraph—P-°SB Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, January 23. Friday's closing prices for the following raw materials were as follows, those for January 15 being shown in parentheses:— Cotton: Liverpool quotation, good American middling, spot, 7.16 d a lb (7.20 d); February delivery, 6.92 d a lb (6.93 d). Rubber: Para. 14d a lb (same); plantation smoked ribbed sheet, 10 l-8d a lb (10 15-16 d). Jute: January-February shipment. Indian jute. Dundee quotation, £18 6s 3d a ton (£lB 12s 6d). Copra: February-March shipment, South Sea to London or Rotterdam, £21 a ton (£23 ss); smoked, to Marseilles or Genoa, £20 15s a ton (£23); plantation Rabau. to London or Rotterdam, £21 15s a ton (£24 2s 6d). I.inseed oil, £29 5s a ton (£3O). Turpentine, 42s 9d a cwt (445).