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BUTTER AND CHEESE. The National Mortgage and Agency Company has received the following cable from Messrs A. J. Mills and Co., Ltd., London;—-Butter Market quiet; 1745, exceptionally good, 1765. Cheese : Market quiet; white, S7s, SSs; colored, 84b, 83s.
GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Messrs Dalgcty and Co., Ltd., report as follows: — Oats.— The improvement in this market which was experienced a week ago has not been maintained. Inquiries made show that tiier? is still a great amount of Canadian oats in the North Island. Prices being asked by farmers will not allow local merchants to compete with these imported oats. Business is very dull, the only lines that are passing ha'nds being those suitable for seed. Wo quote: A Gartens, 3s 3d; B Gartens, 3s per bushel, on trucks. Wheat. —The market is firm, with millers readily buying any lines that are available. Tuscan wheat is realising from 7s per bushel, on trucks, country stations. Fowl wheat, in sympathy with milling, is firm in price. Local merchants are buying all the lines that are available at round about Gs Gd per bushel, on trucks, country stations. Potatoes.—During the week little has been happening in this market. Prices, if anything, are a little easier. No shipping has been done, and local merchants can obtain ail they require at ruling rates. Good tables are realising £6 per ton, ox truck, sacks in. Chaff.—The quantity coming forward is not sufficient to meet the demand, the result being that prices for prime oaten sheaf are firm. Local feeders are readily buying any. nice lines on the market. Medium and inferior lines are very slow of sale. Any of this chaff coming to hand is being taken into store and sold as opportunity offers. Wo quote: Prime oaten sheaf, £5 Jfls to £5 15s; inferior and medium, £3 10s to £5 per ton. sacks extra. SALES ON 'CHANGE: THIS DAY. Auckland.—Kawarau, Gs 4d; Grand Junction, 2s Id; Albumin, 4s 4d. Wellington.—sJ- per cent. Inscribed Stock (1933), £99 12s Gd. Reported; 4/. per cent. Inscribed Stock (1938), 1330 12s Gd. Christchurch.—Reported: Waihi, 19s 3d. Sales : Commercial Bank Australia (two parcels), 31s Gd; National Bank of New Zealand, £G IGs.
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Evening Star, Issue 19329, 16 August 1926, Page 8
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363LATE COMMERCIAL Evening Star, Issue 19329, 16 August 1926, Page 8
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