COMMERCIAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 December 1924, Page 8

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS. HIGH COMMISSIONER’S CABLED REPORT. The Department of Agriculture has received the following cablegram, dated November 29, from the High Commissioner for New Zealand, London: Butter. Better demand for best. Official quotations are: New Zealand. Finest. Salted: November 29, 208 s to 2los per cwt (Is IOJd to Is 10jd per lb), exceptional, 212 s per cwt (Is 10Id per lb); November 22, 204 s to 206 s per cwt (Is 9fd to Is lOd per lb); November 15, 200 sto 208 s per cwt (Is 9£d to Is lOd ner lb). Unsalted: November 29, 218 sto 220 s per cwt (Is to Is ll£d per lb). Other qualities.: November 29, 184 s to 194 s per cwt (Is 7£d to Is B£d per lb). Australian.—Finest. Salted: November 29, 192 s to 196 s per cwt (Is Bid to Is BJd per lb); November 22, 184 s to 188 s per cwt (Is 7*d to Is 8d ner lb); November 15, 184 s to 188 s per "cwt (Is 7£d to Is 8d per lb). Unsalted: November 29, 194 s to 198 s per cwt (Is P^ l ' lb); November 22, 188 s to 194 s per cwt (Is 8d to Is Bjd per lb); November 15, 190 s to 196 s per cwt (Is 83d to Is B|d per lb). Other qualities: November 29, salted. 160 s to 186 s per cwt (is s£d to Is 7fd per lb); unsalted, 162 sto 186 s ner cwt (Is 54d to Is 7|d per lb). Argentine.—Salted: November 29. L6s to 180 s per cwt (Is 6|d to Is 7£d tier lb); November 22, 176 sto 182 s per cwt (Is 6fd to Is per lb); November 15, 184 s to 190 s per cwt (is 74d o Is 83d per lb). Other qualities: November 29, 166 s to 174 s per cwt (Is sfd to Is 6£d per lb). Canadian.— Steadv demwi £t°/ em ber 29, 176 sto IBBs per 6 ! d 8d lb )i November 174s n t ? P e r cwt (Is 6§d to Is 7?d per lb); November 15, 170 s to 188 s per cwt (Is 6d to Is 8d per lb). +n D 93A ISh ‘ —:Dnl l - Number 29, 238 s to 240 s per cwt (2s to 2s Ifd per ; £^ ei ? 22 ‘ 218 s to 222 s per cwt Qs 11 4 d to Is llfd ner lb); NovemtJTl I,s iii! 6s to 220 s per cwt (Is lid to Is ll£d per lb). Cheese. ai e^ ar^eb 9 u^e t- Oftioial quotations English.—Finest farmers’.' Firm November 291,116 sto 120 s per cwt. (Is *2* n? a 2 t° S cwt < ls OJd to Is Ofd {>e ‘; L %r, November 15, 116 sto 120 s per CH t (Is Okl to Is Ofd iper lb); Canadian. —November 29, 93s to 94s per owt (lOd per lib); coloured, exceptional, 96s per cwt (10f d per lb) ; white 94s to 9os .per cwt (lOd per lb) ; exceptional, 96s per cwt (ilOfd per lL); November 22, coloured and white, 93s to 94s to. 95s per cwt (lOd per lb); exceptional, 96s per cwt (10f d per lb); November 15, coloured 94s to 98s per cwt (10d to IQjd per lb) ; white, 94s to 9Ss per cwt (lOdrto lOjd per lb)'. New Zealand. —November 29, coloured and white, new season’s, 90s to 91s per cwt (9£d per lb); coloured and white old season’s, 92s to 94s per cwt (9fd to lOd per lb). November 22, coloured and white, new season’s, 90s to 91s per cwt; coloured and white, old season’s 92s to 94s per cwt. November 15. coloured and white, old season’s 92s to 94s per cwt. Australian.—Quiet. November 29 coloured 86s to 88s per cwt (9d to’ 9id per lb); November 22, coloured, 88s to 90s per cwt (9fd to 91 d per lb) ; November 15. coloured, BSs to 92s per cwt. 9)d to 9fd per lb). Sbioments of New Zealand produce arrived this week per s.s. Maimoa. and Rotorua.. Wool amTTallow. Wool.—Sales continue well attended, and competition brisk and opening prices fully maintained. 'Fallow: Market quiet. Present quotations are : —.Mutton : Fine, 53s to 53 s 6d per owt; fair to good, 50s to 52s 3d per cwt; dark to dull, 46s to 48s per cwt. Beef: Sweet and/or mixed, 52s to 53»> 3d per cwt; fair to good, 48s 6d to . 50s 6<l per cwt ; dark to dull, 45s to 47s per cwt. Mixed : Fair to good, 48s to 50s per cwt; dark to dull, 45s to 47s per cwt. Gut, etc., 41s to 48s 6d per cwt LONDON PRODUCE MARKETS The Lank of -New Zealand produce department has received the following advice from its London office under date November 28:— Butter —Steady demand; 208 s to 210 s per cwt; second grade, 184 s to. 1945. Cheese. —Slow; 90s ner cwt; old season’s, 92s to 945. Frozen meat.—The market for wet to ' ers is firm. Market for ewes quiet and unchanged. New Zealand lambs in snort supply; prices nominal. Beef is owing to absence of demand. YV ethers. light 8d to 91 d per lb, heavy 7)d to 8d : ewes, 6ld to 7J-d; new sea- , son’s Australian lamb, 12*Vd to 13Hi; ox hinds 54d to old, fores 41(1 to 4fd’.

Samuel Turner, Wellington, has received the following cable from their London representatives (Messrs J. Lonsdale and Co.. Ltd): — “Butter steadv; 206 s to 208 s. Cheese firmer, 90s to 925.”