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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18168, 14 August 1922, Page 5

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THE LONDON MARKETS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 4.15 p.m.) LONDON. Aug. 12. FROZEN MEAT. Sheep.—South American, light 61d, heavy SW, ewes 4«d; Patagonian, heavy -lid. Lamba.—Canterbury, heavy 101 d; South American, light 10d, heavy 9d. New Frozen Beef.—lsevr Zealand, fores 2ld, hinds 4jd: Aiwtr&liߣi, hinds 4jd; Argentine, fores 3id, hinds Bid. Chilled Beef.—Argentine, hinds 62d- Other meats unchanged. HEMI', COPRA, RUBBER, ETC. (Last week's prices in parentheses.) Rubber.—Fine hard Para, lOid (Ibid); plantation first latex crepe. 7id (7id); smoked ribbed eheet. 7{d (7ld). Copra.—South Sea, bagged. August-October shipment, £24 7s 6d (July-August £24 10s). New Zealand Hemp-—August-October shipment. £31 lCs (£33). Linseed 0i1.—£44 per ton (£45), equal to 3s 92d per gallon. Turpentine.—£4 18s 6d per cwt- (£4 8s fid), ■ euual to Ge 61d per eallon. LONDON MEAT MARKET. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, lias received tho following cablegram from its London house under date August 9:—New Zealand frozen meat. —Lamb: 10id per lb. Mutton: Unchanged (last quotations July 26, 1922). Wether and maiden ewe, light 6'd per lb. heavy sid; ewe, light 4|d, heavy 4 jd. Beef: Unchanged (last quotation July 6, 1922). Ox- , hinds 4jd per lb, foree 2Jd; cow. binds 3Jd, fores 2}d. Market quiet. CLAUDELANDS STOCK SALE. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd., report:—At oux Claudelands stock sale held cm Thursday, August 10, we had a good entrj- of skee . and cattle, and rather a smaller yardm f fat pigs. Among the beef were a nv ,'nzx of prime fat cows and heifers which created good competition. The mutton also sold well- Tho dairy oows, mostly of poor quality, were dull of sale, while on the other hand good well grown heifers were close to profit and quite the contrary. All young cattle sold freeiy, aleo the store pigsWe quote: Medium fat wcthere 255, smaller fat wethers 22e 9d; fat ewee, 20s 3d; hoggets. 16e to 18s 2d; ewes in lamb. 2ST; small lots of ewes with lambs at foot, 25s to 295; email fat eteers. £4 10b to £5 10a and £6; prime fat cows and heifers £4 10s to £6 18e, lighter £3 to £4 16s; forward cows £1 10a to £2 10s, other cows 15s to 28s; yearling heifers, £1 10s to £2 15e for a pen of Hoi steins; Jersey <rrosa ye&rlings, £3 15s: 20-month empty heifers, £2 15s to £3 9s; 3yoar Shorthorn heifers, close up, £10 to £12 15b ; Jersey springers, to £12 15-s: more backward heifers, £4 10s to £8. Pigs: Medium baconers £2 lGs, porkejrs £2, slips 18e to 2.Ss, weaners 12a to 17s, sows in pig £2 to £4.