HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 17 December 1920, Page 5

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLE.

The Department of Agriculture has received the following cablegram, dated Meat—English, trade slow but good! tone; supplies of beef and mutton are heavier. Average prices are: Beef Is 4jd, mutton Is 9d, lamb. 2s per lb imported, satisfactory trade Butter—With increased Government lation, demand for free^ butter is consnderably smaller. Irish, market very unsettled; best made £21 per cwt (3s «cl per lb) m London- this wee*-, while m Liverpool' best freely offered at £18 15s to £20 per cwt (3s4tTt o 3s 6%$ per lb). but very little- sold:. TTnklted u°ted at £22 10s per cwt (4s per lb) English, cheaper in few markets, but average price first quality has slightly advanced to £24 14s per cwt (4s 5d ]S it>): iJanish production- keeps up well export being chiefly to Great Britain/ Cheese—Market is quiet, but better tone for English; finest farmers', £7 "EL ?K\ 9 t 6s P?V wt ds 3|d to Is 8d IZi lb)'«6 nJ )o? cij€I 7 sW; Canadian, T i ',fl 8s t<) 1 .£7 12s PeV>wt (Is 3fd to Is 4id per lb); coloured, £7 14s to £8 per cwt (Is- 4jd" to Is 5d per lb) Hemp—Manila met with more enquiry, and fair business has been done &* W^ k- * 2" grade October-Decem-ber sold at £59 per ton; DecemberFebruary shipment, £58 to £58 10s per ™nj, January-March shipment, £57 10s 30 QPfi^^f °^^ £ November. Si j* i '°9° bales ' a £ain& 1,021,000 bales last year. Shipments to Great • n, t n months, 384,000 bales 12SKJ 292^f baleS- New Zealand market quiet and steady Present quot a t,o ns are, Sellers, h& "S spot, £54 per'ton; fair, £52 per ton December-February shipment, £52 and ±-50 10s per ton respectively. Wool Sales—Buyers are'still operatvefw" 1 h™d *»™outh. At Wsales yesterday Australian greasy merinos e%£t£*Tf? ted ' and- good clearance 2 7,f oWers meeting market at Sen?lS. tenperCentbeWG-era-