HIGH COMMISSIONER’S REPORT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20763, 25 June 1937, Page 16

HIGH COMMISSIONER’S REPORT

The Department of Agriculture has received the following message, dated June 19, from the High Commissoner for New Zealand, London:— Tallow Little more inquiry at unchanged prices. Hemp Manila: Market continues slow; value K grade for June-August and October-December shipments £32. Sisal: Market quiet; steadier at the close. June-August shipments sold at £2B/10/-; August-October and Decem-ber-February shipments sold at £2B New Zealand: Several inquiries but shippers’ prices out of range. Fruit Port Brisbane discharged In sound condition. Apples: Steady demand but no improvement In prices. Current prices are: Granny Smith, 9/. to 13/-; Dougherty. 9/- to 10/-; Jonathans, Delicious, Cleopatra. Statesman, Sturmer, Rome Beauty. Scarlet Nonpareil. Spit-’ zenberg and Yates, 6/- to 8/-; Dunn’s Favourites, 6/- to 7/6. Pears: Winter Nells, 10/- to 12/-; Winter Cole, 10/- to 11/-; Beurre Bose, 8 - to 9/-; Keiffer, Beurre Diel and L’lnconnue, 6 - to 8/-. SYDNEY PRODUCE PRICES United Press Association—By Electric Teleeraph —Copyrlahr (Received June 24, 8.50 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 24. The wheat market is steady. Bagged grain is worth 5/3 a bushel and country silo wheat about 4/4, equal to 4/11 on a Sydney basis. Flour—£l2/5/- a ton. Bran—£6/15/- a ton. Pollard—£7 a ton. Potatoes—Tasmanian £5 a ton; others £4. Onions—Brown £l3 a ton. Maize—Yellow and white 59a bushel. LONDON SHARE MARKET United Prese Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copariabt LONDON, June 23. Gold shares are steadier, mostly marked up. Imperial Airways shares dropped 6/to 38/9, following the Announcement that a million shares were issuing at 30/-.