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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16340, 14 May 1927, Page 6

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EXPORT PRICES FOR FAT STOCK (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The New Zealand Moat Producers’ Board advises that the following prices were being offered for fat stock for export on Alay .13, 1927: —

Poverty Bay: Prime woolly lambs, ■Mill's and under 7<j, 37/421bs i.i:]d; second quality lambs (id.

Hawke’s Bay: Prime woolly lambs, •ffiilbs and under Sd, ,”i7/-!2lbs 7d. Wellington: Prime woolly lambs, 3(i lbs and under Sd, 37/-J2lb.s 7d; second quality lambs 7d; prime wethers, fdilbs and under Old, 57/<>flbs -ijd; <»G/7D11.s •lid; ewes, fiffibs and under 3{d, 57/0-1 lbs 23d.

Canterbury: Prime woolly lambs, .Millis and under 8 2d, 37/421bs 8(1, 431bs and over 7d; second quality lambs 73d. .South. Otago: Prime- woolly lambs, ffiilbs and under Sd, 37/421bs 7d, 43/50 lbs lid, nolbs and over ufd; second quality lambs, ffiilbs and under 7d, 37/-l2lbs od.

(Bloc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn. 1 (Received May 14, noon.) CHICAGO, .May 13. Wheat quotations: Alay 142 cents; July 135 cents; September 133 cents.

Murray, Roberts and Go. have received the following cable message from their London house :—“London wool sales: Sales closed firm; competition keen ; Hermans principal buyers. Compared with last sale’s closing rales, greasy merinos best descriptions firm, other descriptions no material change, scoured merino .skin wool firm ; lambs, merino greasy and crossbred greasy comeback no material change; crossbred, greasy, line irregular, medium declined 5 per cent, coarse par to 5 per cent, advance, greasy lambs pur to 5 per cent, decline; scoured crossbred, except inferior, firm ; slipc crossbred, par to 5 per cent, advance.’’ Compensation Claim Fails In the Arbitration Chart in Invercargill to-day, a widow, Julia Hunt, claimed £750 compensation from the Waraki Coal Co. on account, of the death of her husband, owing to strain while working in the mine. After bearing the medical evidence Judge Frazer held that death was not due to an accident at the mine, but to shock and haemorrhage following a rupture of the spleen, due to a fall out of bed. Judgment was for defendant.— P. A.