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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18975, 27 March 1936, Page 16

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PAT STOCK SCHEDULE LAMB AND PIGS DECLINE A reduction of Jd per lb. in the export buying schedule for lamb in (<isborne will take place next Monday, when buying will be on a basis of 7jjd per lb. for prime woollies, with prime shorn id less. • Porker pigs up to 1001 b. declined Jd per lb. this week, and the new schedule is. Porkers, up (o 8011)., sgd : 811 b. to 1001 b., 4"d; 1011 b. to 1201 b., 4gd. Baconers. 1211 b. to 1601)).. s,\d : 1611 b. to 1801 b., 4Jd; 1811 b. to 2C011)., 2|d; over 2C01b.. <%d; exportable choppers, second quality pigs, £d less all weights. Beef remains unaltered as follows: Prime ox. 1401 b. to 2201 b., 25s per lCOlb. : overs, unders, and seconds, 21s; prime heifers, 22s 6d ; bulls, 14s ; boner cow and ox, 10s; prime veal, 2£d per lb. ; second quality, l.!d per lb. Wethers and ewes are still being bought on the feet, with prices unchanged. RECOVERY OF 3/. A CWT. MARKET TOR BUTTER The market for New Zealand butter in London has recovered . a portion of hist week's decline, and to-day's quotait ion is 3s per ewt. higher than that reported yesterday. At the new level of 84s, the f.o.b. value is 9|d per lb. Cheeso recovered 6d per cwt. ■ , An improvement, in the market commenced on Wednesday, when both butter and cheese were firm with prices unaltered from previous advice, butter at 81s, white cheese at 49s' 6d, and coloured cheese 50s 6(i.

Messrs. Joseph Nathan and Company ■eport to-day as follows: —"Butter, 84s; he market is quieter at the advance. Mieese, white 50s, coloured 51s; the nai'ket is firm."