COMMERCIAL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14726, 29 June 1920, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

HOME MARKETS. (Per Press Association.) , "WELLINGTON, June 29. The High Commissioner's cable, dated London.. June 26, is as'follows: — Meat. —There is no ehnnge in price. There is good demand for all descriptions of imported meat owing to English producers holding off the market in anticipation of high prices when control is removed on the 4th July. Butter. —The market is v firni. The average price of English is £l6 9s. Irish creamery is quoted at from £l4 14s to £l4 l*Bs for salted butter and from £l4 18s to £ls 6s for unsalted. Government butter is fixed' at £l3 6s wholesale and 2s Sd per lb retail. Cheese.-^—Canadian ori spot is quoted at from £8 2s to £8 8s and c.i.f. at from £7 lis 6d to £7 13s. Hemp.—The Manila market is quiet, but steady. Sellers' closing quotations were —"J" grade, April to June and May to July shipment, £59; August to October shipment, £62 10s. The New Zealand market continues dull. Sellers quote: High points on spot, £56; fair. £•54; May to July shipment, £55 and £53 respectively. Honey.—The market is quiet, with no alteration in prices. DUNEDJN MARKETS. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report as follows: Oats.-—The market remains firm with light ofFerings from the country. Bright heavy lines,suitable for-.milling are saleable at quotations. Sparrowbills and other short plump fines are readily disposed. of on arrival for local fowl feed requirements. Seed varieties are also receiving more enquiry. We quote: — Prime milling, 5s 2d"to 5s 3d; good to best feed, 4s 9d to 5s per bushel, sacks extra. Wheat.—The very small quantity offering is readily accepted by millers. Fowl wheat is unprocurable. Potatoes.—A large number of consignments have been coming forward, chiefly from the North. Many of the lines trom Canterbury are badly graded, with the result that the demand is more for Southern-grown potatoes. We quote:—Best Taieri-grown, £6 to £6 ss; Northern, £5 to £5 10s per ton. sacks extra. Chaff.—The quantity coming forward is more than sufficient for the demand. which is purely local. We quote: —Prime oaten sheaf* £8 7s 6d to £8 12s 6d: medium to good. £8 to £8 os; light and inferior, £6 10s to £7 10s per ton, sacks extra.