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Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14522, 18 August 1911, Page 5

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AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. Received 11.20 p.m.. August 17th. SPDNEY, August 17. Wheat 3s 6d to 8s 6}d. Flour city, £8 10s, country £7 17s 6d, bran £5, pollard £4 10s. MELBOURNE, August 17. Hides—Fair supplies; excellent inquiry; very firm. Wheat, 3s 7£d, flour city, £8 10s, country,£7 10s, oate Algerian 2a Id to 2s 2*. bran and pollard £5. Potatoes £5 to £5 10s. ADELAIDE, August 17. Wheat 8a 6d to 8s 7Jd, flour £7 15s 'to.£B, bran 12jd, pollard 12Jd. LONDON MEAT MARKET.' Messrs Gilbert Anderson and Co. report from London on July 7th:— Very hot weather has been unfavourable to the free buying of meat. All fresh killed has weakened in consequence fully a id, English ewes 4d to 4Jd, Dutch mutton 6Jd to 6Jd, Scotch mutton, 8d to 9d; Dutch, 6}d to 7Jd; chilled beef, slightly better sale, fores 2jd, hinds 3Jd. Frozen beef prices have declined. Mutton and lamb Slices virtually unchanged. Heavy Canterbury mutton is weaker, lambs are temporarily in excess of the demand. "The arrivals .for the six months ending June from all quarters were: —Mutton 8,785,443 (1910—3,741,359), New Zealand being 412,000 less, but this was made up by shipments from Australia and Plate of about equal quantities. Lamb 4,056,593 (1910 —3 148,798). New Zealand has shipped 380.000 more, Australia 278,000 more, Plate 250,000 Frozen beef 976,182 (1910—1,034,871) quarters.