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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 August 1924, Page 6

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♦BUTTER, AND. CHEESE

LATEST LONDON PRICES

(by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 25. The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Co-operative Marketing Association has received the following -(cabled market report from London dated August 22 : The- butter market is very quiet after the recent rise. To-day’s quotations are: New Zealand 206 sto -08 s ; Australian 200 s to 204 s ; Argentine (unsalted) 196 s to 200 s; Danish 214 s; Dutch 208 s; French 2125; Esthoman 200 s; Siberian 174 s to 178 s. Ihe cheese market is slow New Zealand white 945, coloured 90s to 925; released cheese slow, 90s to 945; Canadian white, 945, coloured 925. WELLINGTON SHARE MARKET. Qt WELLINGTON, Aug. 25. -lock Exchange sales reported: Lmou Bank of Australia, £l4 17s; New Zealand Insurance, ,-fil 9s 9d. AUCKLAND SHARE MARKET. AUCKLAND, Aug. 25. otoek Exchange sales.—Now Zealand Insurance, 29,s 9d; South British Insurance. 42s 6d ; Auckland Gas, 25s PRICE OF POTATOES. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT SYDNEY, Aug. 25. ,ea\y supplies caused a slump in potatoes which dropped 30s a ton to —' '° l ' best' laemanians.

HAIRY produce. Messrs Dalgely and Company, Ltd. report having received the ' following cablegram lrom chew London house under date oi the 21st inst:— ‘‘Butter: Market quiet. We quote New Zealand salted 2d6s (200 s), New Zealand excepuoua brands 210 s (2025), • Danish 21bs (2165), finest Australian salted 204 s 0945). Cheese: Market steady New /calami white. 96s (965), coloured r!1 S Canadian C.I.F. quotation ./-is (.)ls). ’ (Last week’s quotations given, m parentheses). file Now Zealand Loan and Mercantiie Agency Co., Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London house under date 22nd inst., — “New Zealand Frozen Meat: Jxunb, iEd per lb (average); mutton, wether and maiden ewe, light 8-.ld ner lb heavy 7:fcl; ewe, light 6gd, heavy s’d! demand. New Zealand dairy produce: Butter, choicest salted 206 sto 21.0. S per (*\vt; elieese, 91.■£ lo 90s per cwt. Markets quiet.”

FROZEN MEAT. Messrs Dalgetv and Co., Ltd., re)iort having received the following cablegram from their London house underrate ol the 21st inst.:—“Lamb: New Zealand prime crossbred lamb, Canterbury heavv 10-Rl. light 11 Id; North Island heavy, Uljd, light ll*d. Demand lor New Zealand lamb active. Market very firm and tending upwards. Mutton : New Zealand prime crossbred mutton, Canterbury heavy ”sd, light Rgd ; North Island heavy 7.Vci, light 81 d. Good demand for New Zealand mutton, market very firm.' BeefNew Zealand beef not quoted. Australian frozen meat: Not quoted. 1 ’