OVERSEAS PRODUCE

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9922, 2 May 1925, Page 5

OVERSEAS PRODUCE

LATEST CABLED ADVICE. Eleetrie Telegraph—Press Association LONDON, April 30. The hides sales were dull. Australian salteds were all nominally 7-Jd ; dry salteds, 20 to 30 pounds, lOd; 30 to 40 pounds, lOd. Butter is firmer and quiet. New Zealand choicest, 170 s ; exceptionally good, 1745; Australian, 16@s to 1625; Danish, 188 s; Siberian is arriving in increasing quantities, and the supplies from this source are expected to reach fifty per cent above last season’s. It is selling well at 144 s to 148 s. Cheese is dull. New Zealand, 96s ; Australian, 945. Australian circles in London, realising that July is too late for Australia to benefit from fruit and sugar preferences, have started a campaign to persuade the Government to introduce them earlier. It is pointed out if they are incorporated in the Finance Bill, it will be ne«essary to wait until it is passed, which will probably take at least between two and three months. It is understood the Government is sympathetic and to meet the Australian interest, is endeavouring to overcome Parlia/mentary precedents and deal with fruit and sugar preferences immediately by some other method.