ROYAL SHOW LAMBS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19601, 1 April 1927, Page 9

ROYAL SHOW LAMBS.

FINE DISPLAY AT SMITHFIELD " GREAT CREDIT TO DOMINION."

The New Zealand Meat Producers' Hoard has received from London the judges' report on the prise lambs from the Royal Show recently held at Auckland, the carcases of which were judged on Smithfield The first and third prizes were awarded to Neil Reid, of Ngahinapouri, Auckland, and the second to A. Miller, of Hamilton. The prizes donated by the Meat Board were:—£ls, £lO and £5 respectively. The judges considered this one of tho finest displays of lamb seen on Smithfield. The dressing, condition and finish were excelleat. Messrs. liarrods, Ltd., purchased all the 93 carcases for the purpose of a special display in their London Store. An extract from the report of the judges who awarded tho prizes on Smithfield, reads as follows: " Reviewing the consignment as a whole they were ci the type most desired on Smithfield, and reflect great credit to the Dominion, which still holds the laurels for producing the best lambs imported by the Heme Country. A keen discerning eye was required to select the best pen of three lambs, and it was only after a strict system of selection and elimination we arrived at a final decision." LONDON PROVISION EXCHANGE. ELECTION OF NEW CHAIRMAN. A. and N.Z. LONDON, March 30. Mr. W, Robinson, a director of the Anglo-Continental Produce Company, and chairman of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Importers' Association, has been elected chairman of the London Provision Exchange. WANGANUI'S 'EXPORT TRADE. STEADY GROWTH MAINTAINED. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WANGANUI, Thursday. The growth of Wanganui's export trade is demonstrated by the quantity of produce now being handled at the port. The Port Caroline 13 to load up with 22,000 carcases of meat, 12,851 of butter, 10,141 bales of wool and 3.19 casks of tallow, and on April 22 the Port Darwin will arrive here to load 12,000 carcases of meat, 15,000 crates of cheese and 4000 bales of wool. The Port, Denison, which will arrive in the roadStead from Lyttelton cn April 29, will load 22,000 carcases of meat and a quantity of general cargo. A.M.P. SOCIETY. ANOTHER RECORD YEAR. The annual report of the Australian Mutual Provident Society shews that another record year for business was experienced in 1926. The new business written totalled £17,765,447, against £17,331,570 in 1925, Included in this total was £13,979,263 insured under ordinary, and £3,786,184 under industrial policies. The sums at present assured in the ordinary department total £154,032,099, an increase of £8,142,624, and in the industrial department £23,572,168, an increase of £2,242,654. The total death claims, ordinary and industrial, amounted to £1,697,303, a decrease on the previous year's claims, which amounted to £1,726,872. As a matter of fact, the death claims in. 1926 were opiy 51 per cent, of the amount expected and provided for under the mortality tables used in the society's calculations. Funds are sot down at £63,641,172, an increase of £4,015,618. The revenue was £9,468,399, against £8,876,760 in 1925. The amount availablo for distribution as cash bonuses among the holders of participating policies in the ordinary department is £2,668,323, which, together with £25,101 paid in interim bonuses during the year, is £265,203 more than the amount "divided in the previous year. It is the largest sura ever distributed by the society as caSh bonuses for a single year, and represents 57.7 per cent, of the premiums received during the year on participating policies, a substantial increase over the rate for the previous year, which was 54.5 per cent. The cash bonuses will provide reversionary additions to policies of about £4,620,000. an increase of £470,000 over the corresponding amount for the previous year. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE. (Received March 31, 9.8 p.m.) A. and N.Z. SYDNEY, March 31, The following are to-day's quotations on the Sydney produce market:— Wheat.—Farmers are refusing to sell with any freedom, and only small lots sold at 4s 4|d at country stations, and 5s ex truck, Sydney. Flour.—For export, £ll 7s 6d ; f.o.b. j for local delivery, £l2 ss. Oats.—Tasmanian white, 4s 3d to 4s 4d; Algerian, 4s to 4s Id; inferior, 3s 9d. Maize.—Yellow, 7s 9d; white, 7s 6d. 1 Potatoes.—Tasmanian, £7 to £B. Onions.—Victorian, £5 10s to £6. Adelaide quotations are Wheat.—Growers' lots, 4s lid to 4s ll£d; parcels, buyers, 5s lid: sellers, 5s 2£d. • . Flour.—Bakers' lots, £l3. Oats,—2s 4d to 2s 6d. TALLOW MARKET* Dalgety and Company, Ltd., has received the following cablegram from its London house, dated March 30:—Tallow sales: 1190 casks offered aud 78 per cent, sold. Mutton neglected. Prices for other descriptions unchanged to 6d higher. PROPERTY SALES. T. Mandeno Jackson will offer for sale by auction at their rooms, 8, Commerce Street, Auckland, at 11 o'clock to-day, three new bungalows, each containing four rooms and conveniences, and each standing on section having frontage to Dignan Road, Point Chevalier, and one also having frontase to Wa'mor Road (to be formed), Under concuct of the Registrar cf the Supreme Court at the request of the mortgagee, a farm of 93} acres, with_ four-roomed cottage and cowshed thereon, situate one mile from Whitford Post Office, will also be submitted. Full particulars are advertised. William As. Home. Ltd.. will offer by auction at their rooms, corner High Street and Vulcan Lane, to-dav at 1 p.m., under instructions of the Official Assignee, a bungalow of four rooms and conveniences, on section 50ft by 904 ft.. situated at Winchef tor Street. Point Chevalier. Also, under conduct of the Registrar of the Supreme Court, a dwelling house, two years old, of four rooms, VintTirnnm. conveniences, in Calgifrv Street. Edendale. C. P Bennett will offer the following proT>«rtien for Bate by auction nt his rooms. New Zea'nnd Insurance .Buildings, at 15 noon tn-dnvßv order of the . General Trust Bonrd of the Auckland A*<r'?can Piocosft, a freehold building site nt fh<» corner nf St. Stephen's Avrvrne nnr) T.i+chfield Road. To wind tin de"»fißed person's estate. a nronertv comprising four nr.res and residence of six rooms. situated in Western Snrimrs Road. Morninsrside. A concrete residence of fieven rooms a .<-! offices on a Fection, with fifift. frontsrre, nt No. s><J Fi-anklin Road Ponsonby, will also be offered. CHICAGO WHEAT MARKET. A. and N.Z. CHICAGO, March 30. Wheat.—-May, 1 dollar 33| cents ner bushel; July, X dollar 28 5-8 cents; September, 1 dollar 26 7-8 cents.