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Evening Star, Issue 19765, 16 January 1928, Page 8

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BUTTER AND CHEESE. The National Mortgage and Agency Co., Lid., have received the following cable from London: —Butter. —Market steadier at reduction. Finest. 156 sto 158 s; finest grade, lots. Cheese. — Market quiet. White and colored, 90s to 91s. ILVBBJTSKIN SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., advise having received the following cablegram from their head office, London, dated 13th inst.: —3,93l rabbitskins offered, 2,486 sold. _ As compared with last sale competition was less keen. For New Zealand thin-pelted furriers the high prices were not quite maintained. Good winter bucks, 5 per cent, lower: stout pelts, incoming late autumns neglected. Hatters in demand 5 per cent, to 10 per cent, higher. Hares 10 per cent, higher. Black and fawn little change. Quotations are as follows: —Full winters, thin pelts, prime, 158 d to 160 d: full winters, thin pelts, slightly spotty, 134 d to 142 d; full winters, medium and stout pelts, 120 d; late winters, 60d to 90d; outgoing and spring, 50d to 57d; early autumns, 57d to 6od; late autumns, 70d to 75d; autumn racks, 45s to 48d; Ihdit racks, 42d to 4(id; mixed racks, 3Ud to 35d; milky, fair to good, 44d to 54d; milky, medium and poor,_ 2od to 43d; inferior ;uid damaged, fair to good, 60d to 70d; inferior and damaged, medium to poor, 26ai to o<d, kittens and suckers. 2lkl tojl_d; black and silver grey, 45s to 4oJd; lawn, 68d to 136 d. PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE. The following particulars of the loan transactions of the Public Trust Office and new business reported during the month ended November 30, 1927, have been supplied by the Right Hon. (ho Prime Minister The amount paid out in settlement of new £Joo.751, making a total of £1,805,340 since the beginning of the present financial year on April 1 last. Further new loans to the amount of £75,<27 were granted, making the total of new loans awaiting settlement £69/, (54, while offers of loans less than the full vances applied for amount to £193.(56 —a grand total of £891,510. Applications for additional new loans amounting to £428,344 are receiving attention. SALES ON ’CHANGE—THIS DAY. Christchurch.—Union Bank of Australia (cum diy.), £l4 13s; New Zealand Refrigerating Company (£1 paid), 18s; New Zealand Breweries (ex div.), 41s 6d; Wilson’s Cement, 38>s (two parcels). Sales reported: New Zealand Insurance, 41s; Wilson’s Cement, 38s; Colonial Sugar, £54 10s. Wellington.—Reported sales: Union Bank of .Australia (cum div.), £l4 12s 6d; National Mortgage and Agency, 725.