FRUIT EXPORT BOARD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 240, 7 September 1928, Page 5

FRUIT EXPORT BOARD.

RESULT OF ELECTION.

Per Press Association,

WELLINGTON, Sopt. 6.

The election of producers’ reprosnotativo on tho New Zealand Fruit Export Control Board for the Canterbury, Nelson and Marlborough provincial districts, results as follows : Brash, T. C. (Wellington) retiring member 120 Gilbort, A. (Stoko) ... .. 76 Dickor, J. (Tasman) ... ... ... 63 For tho Hawke’s Bay-Wellington seat on the board, Mr A. M. Robertson (Hastings), tho retiring member, was returned unopposed. SYDNEY WOOL SALES. SYDNEY, Sopt. 5. Tho wool sales of tho first series havo concluded. Tho second series will commence on September 17. Competition was well distributed, and the market . unchanged, values being firmly maintained at the best point of recent sales. Shorter doubtful-yielding fleece wools are still irregular. Satisfactory clearances wero made. Groa6y Merino sold to 26d. LONDON TALLOW SALES. (Australian Press Association). LONDON, Sopt. 5. At the tallow sales, 644 casks were offered, and 210 sold. Good mixed was 3d easior; other sorts were unchanged. There was no demand for good mutton and beef. SHIPMENTS OF MEAT FROM SOUTH AMERICA. j The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has received a cable from its represent*!- , titve at Buenos Aires, South America, ad- 1 vising the following shipments to the Unit- | ed Kingdom for tho fortnight ended 30th | August, 1928, from Argentino and Uruguay.—223,B9o quarters chilled beet, 1 9640 quarters frozen beef, 73,000 carcases . frozen mutton, 79,438 carcases frozen lamb. The quantity shipped to the Continent of | Europe during tho same period was as fol- I lows: —23,309 quarters frozen beef, 13,066 carcases frozen mutton. I