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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 December 1924, Page 8

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LONDON BUTTER MARKET. 1 riitaa ASSOCIATION—cOCY EIGHT. LONDON, Dee. 11. The butter market is temporarily arm, owing to tog preventing, me dismiarge or.’several steamers which rejenliv arrived. Consequently there is good demand for the small quantity available. i\ew Zealand: Choicest 2045, unsalted, 2035. Australian, 186 s and 188 s; unsalted, 190 s and 1925. Danish: 2455. The last-named is firm on Continental buying for Christmas. Cheese. —.Firm, New-Zealand, 945. LONDON WOOL SALES. AGAIN STOPPED BY FOG. LONDON, Dec. 12. The wool sales were again abandoned owing to fog precluding sampling. The committee will decide to-iporrow regarding the closing of the series. For Bradford tc.ps there was a poor market for crossbred, owing to reports litim the Napier (New Zealand) sales. Merinos were quiet. Sixty-fours quality (Sid, sixties 74d, fifty-sixes 53d. LONDON TALLOW MARKET. i The Bank of New Zealand produce department has received the following from its London office under date 10th December: —’’Taliow: There is a good demand; sixpence advance in price.”

SOUTH AMERICAN MEAT SHIP MENTS. The New .Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has received a cable from its representatives at Buenos Aires, South America, advising the following shipments to the United Kingdom i'or the fortnight ended November 29, 1924, from Argentine and Uruguay: 220,429 quarters of chilled beef, 16,537 quarters frozen beef, 32,150 carcases frozen mutton, 75,833 carcases frozen lamb. The quantity shipppd to the Continent of Europe during the same period totalled 123,350 quarters frozen beef and 26,1.73 carcases frozen mutton.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their Loudon house under date 10th instant: Tallow—We quote present spot values for the following descriptions : Fine mutton 53s 6d per cwt, good beef 516, mixed 46s 3d; market active. New Zealand dairy produce— Butter: Choicest salted 202 s to 204 s per cwt, exceptionally choice 2065, good to fine 184 sto 1925; temporarily steady, fair demand. Cheese: White 93s to 95s per cwt, coloured 92s to 945; market firm.

Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having received the following cablegram from their London house under date of the 10th instant: Nine hundied and fifteen casks tallow offered; 780 sold. Since our last w r eek’s report prices are 6d per cw r t higher. The Farmers’ Co-op Organisation Society reports: At Waveriey on Friday. 12th inst., we had a. good yarding, effecting a total clearance to a good attendance of buyers. We quote: Weaner pigs 15s, small stores £1 to 1 1 14s, purebred young Berkshire boar 12 ss. Sheep: Tw'o-tooth wethers 30s 2d, four-tooth ditto 33s 9d. f.f. ewes 295. store ewes 22s lid. Southdown ewes 3"ns. to 31°ns. Cattle: Fat P.A. heifers £8 15s, fat cows (HerefordShorthoru) £6 14s to £7 17s. fat '-•owe 06 5s to £7. forward cows £4 to £5 ss, works and boner cows at late rates, honvv works h-dls £6 to £6 10s. others £3 10s to £5 10s, stag £8 ss, 15-month Jersey cross heifers £2 os to £3.