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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 January 1928, Page 9

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LONDON WOOLL SALES. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 2.45 p.m. to-day. LONG UN, Jan. 23. At the wooil sales 9694 bales were sold of which 6025 were Australian and 3208 New Zealand. There is an average selection of merinos and an excellent offering of greasy crossbreds, while there is a limited supply of other sorts. There is good general competition and prices are fully maintained. New Zealand’s PUTITE twenty-four 21-) BEE twenty-six 23, 0/AH'W 22, 21, Bradford prices very firm all round, but business is distinctly quieter. SYDNEY WOOL SALES. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT SYDNEY, Jan. 23. At the wool sales a spirited market ruled, with prices equal to the best of last week’s rates for all descriptions. Good clearances were effected. Greasy Merino sold to 38d. LONDON MEAT MARKET. The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has received the following cablegram from its London office, dated January 20, advising Smitlil'ielcl delivered prices at that date as follow (prices for the two previous weeks being shown in parentheses) : New Zealanders Wether and Maidens. —Canterbury quality, selected brands (old season): solb and under, did (0)6, 61d) : 571 b to 641 b, 6d (6£d, 6 3-8 d); 651 bto 721 b, o£d (5d s)d). Other brands (new season): 561 b and undqj', GJd (63 d, G|d); 571 b to 641 b, 6Jd, (Bad, 6ad) ;651b to 721 b, 5 5-8 d (5-3 d, 52d). New Zealand Ewes (old season).— 641 b and under, 4 7-8 d (4 7-Bd, sd). New Zealand lambs. —Canterbury quality: 361 b and under, not quoted; 3711) to 421 b, not quoted; 431 b to 5(M>, not quoted; seconds, not quoted. Selected brands (new season) : 361 b and under, 103 d (llid, ll^d); 371 b to- 421 b, io£d (Had, llid). Other -brands, first quality (new season); 361 b and under, lOid (not quoted); 371 b to 421 b, 16*d (not quoted); second quality, 301 bto 321 b, average, 93d (lOd lQd). Australian Lambs. —-Victorian, first qualitv: 361 b and under, 9 l-8d (94d, 9-Jd); 371 b to 421 b, 9 1-8 (9Jd, ?id). Argentine Lambs.—First quality : 36 lb and under, 7 3-8 d (7-3-Bd, 7 3-8 d) ; 371 b to 421 b, 7£d New Zealand Beef. —Ox fores, 3jd (31 d 4d); ox hinds, 5d (sd, ojd); cow fores, B£d, 3id); cow hinds, 4d (4d, 4d). Argentine Chilled Beef. —Ox fores, 33d (4-id, 4id); ox hinds, 6 l-8d (6Jd, 6 3-8 d). Argentine Frozen Beef. —Ox fores, 33d (33d, 4d); ox hinds, 5 5-Bd,. 5 7Bd.) , Frozen Pork. —Porkers: 601 b to 801 b, 7id (73, Sd); 811 bto 991 b, 7cl (7fd," 7]d); 1001 b to 1201 b, 63d (63d, 7d); baooners 1211 bto 1801 b, 6)d (6Jd, 6Jd). Frozen Veal. —Not quoted. Lamb Market: Owing to heavier landing, market easing. Mutton market: Demand is 6low, owing to heavy pitchings of Homekilled. Frozen Pork : Supplies of fresh pork continue to be heavy. American loins are selling at Bid c.i.f. WOOL IN LONDON. Messrs. Murray, Roberts and Co., Ltd., are in receipt of the following wool market cablegram from their London agents dated January 20: Sales brisk; market very firm; competition keen. For crossbred the opening rates are barely maintained. The greasy merino market sho\vs a hardening tendency. Wool suitable for Yorkshire shows the greatest advance. Advances in scoured are chiefly confined to skin wool. The following quotations show prices at the opening of the/ January series compared with the close of the December serie-s (the latter in parentheses): 56’s, yielding 60 per cent, 254 d (24d); 50’s, yielding 65 per cent, 22 (20)d) ; 44-46’s preparing,.yielding 74 per cent, 183 d (17Jd); 44-46’s carding, yielding 72 per cent, 18Jd (16.}d)_; 40-44’,5. yielding 73 per cent, practically none offering: 36-40’s, yielding 75 per cent-, practically■ none offering; 60-64’-s (New Zealand merino), yielding 48 per cent, none offering (23)c1).

A.M.P. SOCIETY. It is .announced by the A.M.P. Society that the total new business completed for the year 1927 is £19,459,808, comprising £15,397,528 for the ordinary department, and £4,062,280 for the' industrial department, which exceeds the previous year’s figures by over one and a. half millions, and is a record. New Zealand has also put up a spendid record for the year, having provided over £4,000,000 of the whole total.