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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15746, 10 February 1922, Page 5

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LONDON TALLOW MARKET

Elec Tel. Copyright—Uuited Press Assn. 1 'Australian ami N.Z. Panic Association. LONDON, Feb. 8. At the tallow sales 2182 casks were offered and 152 sold at. late rates to sixpence advance; mutton 42s 3d'to 38s 6<l; beef 42s lo 38s. (Received February 10, 10.40 a.m.) MELBOURNE, February 10. The hide market is irregular. Alodiums are a farthing to a half-penny lower. Heavies and light kips are unchanged. Bailey, English 4s 4d, 4s 6d ; Cape 3s Id, 3s 2d ; oats 3s 3d, 3s sd; potatoes £3 15s, £4 ss; onions £6 10s, £7 15s. LONDON TALLOW SALES. Messrs Dalgety and Company have received the following cable from their London office: — “At the tallow sales this week two thousand casks were offered and fourteen hundred sold; prices unchanged to 6d per cwt- higher The advance is chiefly on better qualities. Good mixed 39s 6d per cwt.” IHGII COMMISSIONER’S CABLE. The Department of Agriculture lias received the- following cablegram, dated February 4, from Ihe High Commissioner : .Meat.—Reported that c.i.f. business is less active, hut moderate demand continues for. supplies on spot. Official quotations (January 28 in parentheses) : N.Z. mutton, lightweight 7|d (up lo 8d); do., heavyweight. (6|d to 63d); N.Z. ewes, for lightweight N.Z. lamb, lightweight. Host quality, lo 10 i .jd (10J,d); do., heavyweight and second-class quality, lOd (1 Cel). A few new season’s North Island lamb selling at per lb. N.Z. beef (quotations nominal), hinds 4gd (43d). fores old (SJ-d); chilled (very large supply), hinds (6|d), fores 3£d (33d); South American mutton, 6J,d to 7d per lb; do., lamb, 9d to 9jd per lb; Australian lamb, 9jd to per lb. Retail prices mutton : English legs and loins Is 6d per lli, shoulders Is 3d per lb, imported legs lid to Is Id per lb, loins 8d to lb, shoulders lOd per lb. Lamb: English legs, loins and shoulders Is 8d per lb; imported legs Is 3d to Is 5d per lb, loins Is to Is 2d per lb, shoulders Is 2d to Is 4cl per lb. Beef : English, ribs and sirloin 2s per lb, steak 2s 8d per lb,\eliilled ribs and sirloin Is to Is Id per lb, steak Is lOd per lb. frozen ribs and sirloin 9d to lid per Hi. steak. Is 4d to Is Bd’ per lb. SYDNEY, Feb. 9. Algerian feed 3s 8d to 3s 10c!: white 4s Id to 4a 3d ; maize, yellow 5s 2d to 5s 3d, white 4s 9d to ss; potatoes, Tasmanian £7 to £8; onions; Victorian £7 10s to £ll. ADELAIDE, Feb. 9. Oats 3s.