DAIRY PRODUCE

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 6 January 1930, Page 5

DAIRY PRODUCE

SMITHFIELD QUOTATIONS. ■ United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) LONDON, Jan. 4 Weekly quotations for the undermentioned! classes of frozen meats, based on actual sales of wholesale quantities of carcases of mutton or lamb or quarters of beef delivered to Smhhfeld market or ex-London stores, ore compiled by the quotations remmittee, Smithfielicl. To arrive at the equivalent ex-ship values a farthing per pound should be deducted] Jiom the prices quoted. The quotations are the average for the week, and are not selected lines, buffi for par-eis fairly representative of the bulk of _th< J siii|>ments now on offer: —

New Zealand Sheep. Canterbury and North Island selected no:-shred wethers land! maiden ewes, 4~‘ib to sClb, 7d per lb; 571 bto 641 b, 6ijd; 65T;> to 72/b, 6gd; North Island crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, 48ib to 561 b, 6id; 571 b to 641 b, 6§d; 65ib to 721 b, 63d; Neiw Zealand ewes, 481 b'o 641 b, 5.1 : 651 b to- 721 b, 4£d.

Australian Sheep. First quality crossbreds and Merino wethers, <tOib to 65ib. s id; second quality, 301 b to 551 b, sd; Australian ewes, 301 bto 551 b 4-3 d. Argentine Sheep—First quality crossbred wethers, 48I‘b to 641 b, 6 Jd; 651 b to 721 b. 6d; over 721 b, 53d. New Zealand Lambs. Can tor burs - , 361 b land under, 9d; 371 bto 421 b, Bgd ; selected North Island brands 361 b and under. 103 d; second quality, 9J-d.

Australian Lambs.—‘Victorian first quality 361 b and! under, BJd; 371 b to 42ib, Sil'd; other States first quality 361 b and under, 8-Jd; 371 bto 421 b, BJd ; Victorian second quality, 361 b and under. 7#d; other States second quality 7id; all States third quality, 63d. Argentine Lambs. —First quality 361 b and under 73d; 37'ib to 421 b, 7sd ; 43 lb to 501 b. 7|d; Patagonian second quality, average 311 b, 6id. New Zealand 1 Frozen Beef. —None offering. Australian Frozen Beef.—Ox crops under 1001 b, 4|d per lb.; over 1001’b, od : binds under 1601 b, 6}d; over 1601 b Gad. Argentine Gh.Piled Beef. —Ox fores, 1601 bto 2201 b, 4£d; hinds, 1601 bto 2201'b, 7Jd>.

LONDON QUOTATIONS. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Ltd., ilia's received the following advice from it® London house, dated January 1: Butter. —New Zealand choicest salted, 161 s to 162 s per cwt. Gheese.—White, 87s to 88s per cwt; coloured. 85s .per cwt. Markets quiet. Messrs Newton King, Ltd., report:— Butter.—The intervention of the holidays has not arrested the downward tendency of the market. The market during the last few days has registered a further depreciation and closes slow with prices irregular. Advances are reduced from January 3 to is 2d. Sailted, 156 sto 160 s; unsalted, 178 s to 182 s; wheys, firsts 150 s, seconds 1465. Cheese. —At- present there is a lack of interest in cheese, but with the holidays passed there should l>e la revival. The market closics quiet. Advances are reduced from January 3 to 7cl. Coloured, 85s to 86s; white, 87s to 88s.