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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 December 1928, Page 11

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LONDON MEAT MARKETS. The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has received the following cable message' from its London office, dated December 7, 1928, advising SmithfieM delivered prices averaged for the week ended /that date a® follow: — New Zealand wethers and maidens. — Camterbiuny quality, selected brands, 56 lb. alnd under, 63d; 57-641 b., did; other brainds, sGlb land under, 6 l-8d; 57-641 b., (id; 65-721 b., 53d. New Zealand ewes.—64lb and under, 4-1 d. New Zealand lambs. Canterbury quality, 361 b and under, 93d; 37-42 Lb., 9Ad; seconds, 73d; selected brands, 36 lb and under 9 5-8 d 37-421 b., 9 Ad; other ■brands, first quality, 36.1 b and under, not quoted; 37’421b., not quoted; second quality, 30 321 b., average 7Ad. Australian, lambs.— Victorian, first quality, 361 b and under, 93d; 37-421 b., 93d.

Argentine lambs..—First quality, 361 b alnid under, 73d; 37 421 b., 7|d. New Zealand beef. —Ox fores, 3 7-8 d; ox hinds, sd; cow fores, 34d; eow hinds, 4 Yd.

Argentine chilled beef.—Ox fores, 4 5-8 d; ox hinds, 63d. New Zealand frozen pork: Porkers, 60-Solb., 61 d; porkers, 81-991ib., 63d; porkers, 100-1201 b., 03*1; hair oners, 1211.801 b., Til. , Lambs.—Market remains without ainy improvement owing to plentiful supplies of new season’s Australian and South American lamb. Mutton.—Market quiet; trade -slow. New Zealand .porker pigs.—Market unchanged and trade very slow. Home killed still plentiful. LONDON QUOTATIONS. The New Zealand Dairy Produce Board lias received the following market report from its London office, dated December 7: Butter. New Zealand.—Salted, 3'7Ss, 180 s, up to 182 s; unsalted, 1945, up to 19Sis; first wliey, 1665; second whey, 1925. Deliveries this week 1600 tons; in store, New Zealand, this week, 3750 tons. Australian. —Finest salted, 174 s to 178 s; unsalted, 182 s, 184 s, to 186 s. Market firm, demand improving. Argentine.—Unsalted, 176 s to 180 s. Market steady. Dutch.— Unsaited, 204 sto 2035. Danish. —198 s f.0.b., 204 s spot. Market firm. Retail prices unchanged. Cheese. New Zealand. —White, 93s to 08s; coloured, 97s to 98s; exceptional, 995. More doing at the lower prices. Robberies New Zealand this week, 20.U00 crates; in store, New Zealand, this week, 43,000 crates. Canadian. —White, 110 s to 112 s; coloured 108 s to 112 s. Retail prices unchanged.

English.—Finest farmers’, 140 s to 1425.

Westmoreland finished discharge of cheese on November 30, and of butter on December 3

lonic commenced discharge of cheese on December 5 and completed on December 6; commenced discharge of butter on December 6. Port Fremantle commenced the discharge of cheese on December 6. Estimated stocks of all butters at principal cold stores in Great Britain at November 30, 5550 tons, compared with 7000 tons last year. Estimated stocks of cheese at London, Liverpool and Bristol, at December J : New Zealand and Australia, 35,500 crates (last year 5250 crates); Canadian, 164,500 boxes (178,200 boxes). Butter. —New York, 52 cents (2s 2d); Montreal, 403 cents (Is B’d). Butter stocks at Montreal, 86,722 boxes (last year, 187,475 boxes).