FROZEN MEAT PRICES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19061, 4 July 1925, Page 9

FROZEN MEAT PRICES.

LONDON MARKET VALUES. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report, having,.received the following cablegram from their London house, dated July 2, regarding the frozen meat market :~New Zealand prime crossbred lanb: Canterbury—Heavy, 9§d; light, ll|d. North Island—Heavy, D^d; light ll£d. fhe demand for New Zealand lamb runs principally on light-weights. The market is weaker. New Zealand prime crossbred mutton: Canterbury—Heavy, 6d; light, 7Jd. North Island—Heavy, sj|d j light 7id. The domand for New Zealand mutton runs principally on light-weights. The market is weak and transactions small. Quotation for New Zealand p/imo ox beef: Hinds, sd; fores, 3d. The demand for New Zealand beef is fail*. The market is dull, but sellers are firm. MILLION POUND TIMBER DEAL. VANCOUVER TRANSACTION More than 35,000 acres of timber lands, containing well over two billion feet of logs; a sawmill with a capacity of more than 50,000 feet of lumber a day; three large tugs and a complete sawmill and logging outfit, are involved in a deal which was recently completed and under which the Campbell River Co., of White Rpck, has purchased the total holdings of the Japies Logging Co. of Vancouver. The amount of actual cash which will be involved in the transaction has not been disclosed, but it is said that before a complete settlement is made on the deal it will involve a sum of moro than £1,000,000.

MARKET REPORTS. FRUIT AND PRODUCE. There was a slightly firmer tone in fruit at the Auckland City Markets yesterday. There is still a plentiful supply of apples and pears coming forward. All vegetables were in plentiful supply yesterday and there was a fair demand. Prices realised were as follow: FRUIT. Applee, Delicious. 8s to 10a 6d a case:™ Dougherty's, choice, up to 7s; others, 3s 6d to 5s 6d; Munroes, 5s 6d to 6s 6a; Ballarats. 7s to 8s; Jonathans. Cs 6d to 6s 6d: Yates, 4s 6d to 5s 6d: tree tomatoea. 3s to 7a 6d; hothouse tomatoes. 5d to Is 3d a lb: hothouse grapea, la to 3s a lb; .Sydnoy grapes, 21s to 22s Gd a icaße; passions, 6s to 9s: pears, Neilis and Coles, choice ud to 10s; inferior 4s 6d to 6s- cooking pears. 4s 6d to 6s 6d; oranges. Rarotongas. 14s to 15s Gd; Aitutaki repacks. 20s; repacked bananas, I2s to 18s: Sydney fruit: Mandarins, 12s to 23s Gd; passions. 15s to Ltis: pines, 21a to '/ia; Navel oranges, 15s to 16s 6d, FIELD PRODUCE. Southern potatoes. 7s 9d to 8s 3d a cwt.; now potatoes. 3d to 4d a lb: onions. 12s to 17s a cwt; cabbage, 2s to 7s a sack; cauliflowers, 3d to 1b 2d each; kumaraß, 5s to 7s a sugar-bag; pumpkins. 3s to 9s a cwt.; swedes 2s 6d a cwt.: green peas. Is 3d a lb: celery, 6d to 3s 6d a bundle; lettuce. Is to 4s a case; rhubarb. 4s to 5s a dozen: carrots, parsnips, beet and turnips, 6d to Is a dozen.

POULTRY. Cockerels. 6s to 6s 6d: roosters., 3s to 4s; liffht hens. 2s 3d to 3a 3d» heavy hens, 3a 9d to 4s 6d; ducks. 3s to 3s 6d: pullets. Black Orpington 5s to 10a 3d: White Leghorn 6a to 6a Gd. DAIRY PRODUCE. Hen eggs, 2s fld to 2s lid a dozen; duck OSES. ?a 7d to 2a 9d; pullot eggs. 2s 3d to 2s 6d: farmers' butter. Is 3d to Is Bd. CANTERBURY MARKETS. [BX TELEGEAFH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH. Friday. The weather has very materially lessened the amount of business going through in general produce lines, the only exception being potatoes. Sufficient wheat is tg be landed within the next month to meet milling requirements for some time to come. The landed price of this wheat at South Island ports will bo found more reasonable than was expected in many quarters. As a result of the impending importations fowl wheat is scarcely so firm in price. It is quoted at 6s lid f.o.b.

Oats, though showing no alteration in quotations, are invested with a weaker feeling. One or two largo Northern holders, who were surprised at tho facility with which their June contracts " were filled, have sold their July purchases. Private advices from the South do not, confirm reports of a scarcity down there. As a matter of fact the stocks in store are stated to be surprisingly heavy, and they are being reduced very slowly. There is no appreciable inquiry. In spite of tho bad weather oats are on offer in Canterbury at 4s 6d f.0.b., s.i., for A Gartons, and 4s 2J,d for B's, with few buyers. Potatoes have taken a firm swing upwards. There weeks ago the quotation was £5 5s f.0.b., s.i., and to-day it, is £6 ss:' The weather is largely responsible for this spurt, but some of it is due to a growing feeling that export to Australia will develop, and also to a belief that the crop will fall short of some earlier optimistic estimates. Tubers have been sold fairly extensively for July at £6 ss. Advices from Australia are to the effect that the Health Department there is agreeable to accept tho growers' certificate here as to the soundness of the potatoes.- The fear thoy might be turned do'wn on arrival had been tending to discourage operations. Very few farmers are responding to the advance in prices, and those that are can ask £4 15s a ton on trucks. FEILDING STOCK SALE. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] FEILDING, Friday. There was a fair yarding of sheep at Feilding and a largo attendance of buyers. Latnbs and best classes of _ ewca wero_ in keen demand and wero quitted at prices well up to late rates. Fat Bheep, except the very best quality, were "not keenly • sought, several pens being passed in. A fairly largo yarding of cattle came forward, including a line of good Jersey springing heifers, which sold at fairly satisfactory prices. Fat cattle wero hard to quit, buyers standing off mainly on account, of tho bad weather conditions. A number of pens wore passed in. , * Fat b.f. lambs, 24a 6d to 275; fat w.f. lambs, 25s 2d to 27b Id; light fut wethers, 35s Id to 35s <ld; good heavy fat wethers, 46s 9d; store wether lambß, 2Ga Id to 27a 9d; fair m.s. lambi, 26a 9d; store b.f. lambs, 17s; medium w.f.m.s. lambß, 19s 6d to 225; small lajnb3, 10s 6d to 16a 6d; rough ewea. r.w. Romnoy rams, 35s to 36a 7d; good four and five-year ewea, r.w. S.'D. rams, 47a; very fair f. and f. wethers, 37s lid: empty ewes, 17a 3d to 24s 3d. Fat steers, £7 19s Bd; good p.a. fat bullocks, £10; fat p.a. cows, £7 10s to £8: high grade Jersey springing heifers, from £7 10s; empty store cows, £2 2s to £2 2s Gd.

PROPERTY SALES. William A. Homo, Ltd., sold by auction yesterday a semi-bungalow of thieo rooms on a section 66ft, x 132 ft., at Marshall Street, Claudelands, Hamilton. Tbo price was £265. ' i Roberts and Company sold for £175, under instructions from tho mortgagee, a section of 10.7 per&hcs xn Violet Crescent, ParneJi. A bungalow at 10, Prinoe's Avenue, Dominion Road, was not sold. Three properties were offered by Samuel Vaile and Sons, Ltd., under conduct of tho Registrar of the Supreme Court. A farm property at Waikaka, comprising 1470 acres, of which 1000 acres ore in buah, was bought in by the mortgagee at £7BO. A dwelling of four rooms and kitchenette on a section of over half an acre, was passed iw at £BBO. A house of five rooms and kitchenette, on a section of 26.4 porches, in Lawrence Street, Mount Eden, was bought in by the mortgage© ct £770. A «even-roomed dwelling and large workshop on a section 33ft. x 99ft., offered by Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd., was bought in by tho mortgageo at £950. George Walker offered by auotion, under conduct of the Registrar of tbo Supremo Court, an unimproved farm of 70 acres, with a four-roomed farmhouse, at Kaukapnkapa, which was bought in by the mortgagee at £I4OO. Tho New Zealand La an and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., offered a farm .of 356 acres at Nesa Valley* Clevedon, which wa# passed in.