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Evening Star, Issue 18058, 28 August 1922, Page 3

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NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., has received the following cablegram from_ its London house, under date the 23rd inst.: Tallow.—We quote present spot values for the following descriptions : —Fine mutton, 41s 6d per cwt; goed beef, 39s 9d; mixed, 35s 3d. Market dull. New Zealand Frozen. Meat.—Lamb, 10ijd per lb; mutton, wether and maiden ewo, light 6jd per lb, heavy 51>d; ewe, light 4|d, heavy 4id. Market steady. Beef, no alteration.

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having received the following cable from their head office, dated London, August 24, 1922:

N.Z. prime cross-bred lamb: Canterbury, heavy lOiJd, ll|d; North Island, heavy lOjd, light 10! d, Demand fair. N.Z. prime cross-bred mutton: Canterbury, heavy 5Ad, light 6^d; North Island, heavy 4JJI, iidit sijd. Demand runs principally on light weights. N.Z. prime ox beef, hinds fores 3id. Demand belter. Butter.— Market quiet. N.Z. salted, 214 s per cwt; Australian g.a.q., 198 s; Danish, 2205; Australian finest salted, 2065; finest unsalted, 2125. ■ Cheese.— Weak ami inactive. N.Z. color, 85s per cwt; N.Z. white, 925. ' THE HOME MARKETS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, August 26. Sheep.— Canterbury, light 7d, medium 6Jd, heavy 6Jd; North island, s£d and 6d; Soaih American, light 6^B. Lambs.—Canterbury, light medium lid, heavy 9|d; Southland, lOJd; North Island, ordinary lO^d; South American, light lOd, heavy 9d. Frozen Beef.—New Zealand, fores 3£d, hinds 4ld; Australian, fores 3id, hinds 4Jd; chilled Argentine hinds, 7;Jd; others unchanged. Cotton.— September shipment, 12.89 d per lb. Rubber.— lOAd'per lb; plantation, smoked, 7d. Jute.—September-October shipment, £2B 5s per ton. Hemp.—August-Octobcr shipment, £32 10s per ton. Copra,—Angust-October shipment, £22 10s per ton. Linseed oil, £56 pc 4 r ton. _ Turpentine, 95s per* cwt. _' ■ The wheat cargo market is steadier. A bid of 50s 3d was received for Australian on passage. Sellers are asking 60s 6d. Parcels are quieter at 9d to Is lower.— A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON WOOL SALES.

LONDON, August 26. At the September wool sales 128,000 bales will bo offered, including 0.000 .Australian “Bawras,” of which 26,400 bales are merinos, 24,000 privately owned Australian.'and (0,000 privately owned New; Zealand.—-A. and N.Z. Cable.