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Grey River Argus, 4 December 1924, Page 6

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RISE IN LAMB PRICES. ( CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 3. • At Addington to-day, freezing buyers ■ operated for fat lambs for the first ; time this season, and the entry of 1250 met with a particularly keen sale. Prime to 42 lb lambs and lighter weights made a full 13]d a lb and | heavy weights a. shade less. HIGH WOOL PRICES. <Aus and N.Z. Cable Assn.) BRISBANE, Dec. 3. Al the lilial series of the wool sales prices ‘were at par to five per cent, dearer for ail sorts. Up to 704 d was realised for scoured, a record for Australia to date. WHEAT PRICES DOWN. LONDON. December 2. Wheat cargoes are dull, and buying interest is lacking, owing to llu* American market’s weakness to gether with pressing offers of wheat from the Argentine and Australia. Tlse market (has declined 6d to Is. Paroles poor enquiry, and showing a Is decline. Liverpool futures are: December, sellers, 12/5?; March 12/8;]; May, 12/7]. NEW YORK. December 3. Chicago wheat quotations are: “ cember, 152 5/8 reals pe- E’”-’'”’ 159 7/8; July, 1414. GERMAN SUGAR CROP.

BETH.IN Ili-i-i-iiilier 3. The German sujja'- licet crop totals ..3,(100.000 of zentners, or twenty-one millions below Hint of 1913 but eleven millions above that, of 1923. Thor.' will bo large quantity available for export. England is expected to bo Ger many's best customer NEW ZEALAND LAMB WELLINGTON. Dee. 3. The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has just received a cable from its representatives in Australia, advls■ng that IH 211 earcases of lamb were exported from Australia for tin- fort night ended November 28. 'I here was tini c (sa\ y the Auckland Star) when n o AuoklajuJ trailer in Queen street would have drea.mil of leaving his shop window > unprotected; each shop was lls carefully shuttered as an invalid is wrapped up before going out into the night. Today you won’t find a shop shutter within how many miles of'Auckland? At any rate there must be thousands of Auckland children and older than that, who have never seen ai shop window otherwise than naked and unashamed. What, is the reason of the change of fashion? The old style of shutters to every window must have been a great \va\ste of time; it made Queen street a riskv promenade between eight, and half-past, and was the cause of much incipient bad language in dim'nutive office boys; but there must have been some good sufficient Hea<son for it. Probabi? th” modcr'n plate glass was not so common in bygone Auckland, or probably the present system of insuring windows had not been introduced. One or two Aucklanders who were recalling this forgotten precaution of the bygone shopkeepers remarked ‘Nou fofget they had 11 o’clock licenses in those days.” Has Auckland got more sober, or has plate-glass got thicker