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Evening Star, Issue 18809, 6 December 1924, Page 9

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LONDON MARKETS, Messrs Nimmo and Blair have receives the following cable from London, dated sth inst: —Cheese, white, 92s per cwt; market quiet. Butter, 202 s per cwt; market dull,. ROYAL SHOW. The following are the conditions of the prizes offered by the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board for fat lambs most suitable for export trade for the Royal Show at Christchurch next year: — Class I.—Fat lambs most suitable for our dominion’s export trade and the type most desired to keep up our reputation on the London market, each pen to consist of throe lambs, each individual lamb m pou not to exceed 721 b live weight, and to be weighed on the show ground by stewards before judging, pure-bred iambs not allowed to compete, prizes for the best pens to be awarded as follow: —First, £ls; second, £10; third, £5. ■ Class 2.—A1l the lambs entered to the above class to be killed and shipped Home to the board’s London manager, wlio will arrange a special display of them on the Smithfield market, the quality of the carcasses to be judged by three judges to bo appointed by the British Incorporated Society of Meat Importers, prizes for the best lot of three carcasses to be awarded as follow: —First, £ls; second, £10; third, £5. LONDON MARKETS. The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., has received the following cablegram from its London.ionso, under date the 3rd inst.: — Tallow.—We quote present spot values for the following descriptions .—Fine mutton, 53s per cwt; good beef, 50s per cwt; mixed, 4os per cwt; market dulL New Zealand Daily Produce—Buttps: Choicest, 204 s to 203 s per cwt; cxcopttoally choice, 212 s per cwt; good to fin®, 190 sto 194 s per cwt; market temporarily steady, but large supplies near at _ hand I recent advance duo to erratic Continental buying. Cheese; Colored and white, 90s to 92s per cwt; market slow; firming tendency. SALES ON ’CHANGE i THIS DAT. Christchurch,—Gold sbrough, Mort, 60s 6d; New Zealand Refrigerating (com), Us 9d; Burns, Philp, 34s 3d.