MEAT EXPORT PRICES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19162, 19 November 1927, Page 12

MEAT EXPORT PRICES.

NORTH ISLAND SCHEDULE

LAMB NINEPENCE A POUND. On Wednesday the Gear Meat Company. Wellington, issued its opening schedule of prices for meat for export as follows : LAMBS. d I ,36's and under ... 9 I 37's to' 42's ... 81 | Over 42's •••■ ?•{ Second quality ... 8 MUTTON. Wethers. Ewe>. 56s ant! under ... •_>: y* 57 : s to 64's ... •> fi ivj's to 72's ••• -11 Over 72's ... 4 2i BEF.r'. Ox. 30s per 1001b. Ileiler. 27s 6d per 1001b. Cow, 22s 6d per 1001b. Similar prices are operating in the Wauganui district. A message from Hawke's Bay last night stated, that no intimation had been given yet in regard to the competitive opening prices in that province, though mmor operations had been in progress for the past week or two bv one works at 8 : ld, without, it is understood any rigid classification in rejrard to weights, which, naturally, at this period of the season, is not a factor of importance. In view of the foregoing definitely stated prices, the report mentioned in Thursday's issue of The Pekss to the effect that it was understood that North Island prices would open at 9J a lb. erred on the side of optimism. WHEAT PROBLEM. DISCUSSION BY MID-CANTER-BURY FARMERS. Further action in connexion with the wheat question was urged at the Mid-Canterbury Provincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union yesterday. The Methven branch wrote stating that it considered the time had arrived when some announcement should be made by the chairman of the Wheat Committee as to what had been done in the way of organising the sale of wheat to prevent a repetition of the slump in prices that was experienced in "April and May last season. Millers were buying a considerable quantity of wheat at the present time at 5s 9d on trucks, said Mr Campion, who moved that the remit be adopted. Mr F. G. Evans said he did not know whether the Wheat Committee was still in office- Personally he hoped it was not. He was never in favour of the commercial interest being associated with the committee. '

The president (Mr H. C. B. Withell) said it was time that the Wheat Committee gave them some indication as to what had transpired. Mr Evans said he sincerely hoped that when the Wheat Committee gave them a report that it would go out of office, and they, as wheat-growers, would set up their own committee to deal with marketing. The remit was adopted, arid it was decided to forward it to the chairman of the Wheat Committee (Mr W. Maohin) as from the executive.

Further phases of the question were discussed in committee.

TIMBER IMPORTS. [THE PRESS Special Service.] WELLINGTON, November 18. Imports of timber, to the Dominion during September included 2,772,386 super feet of rough, hewn and rough sawn timber valued at £37,663, and 575,342 super feet of sawn dressed timber valued at £7410. Undressed round poles from Australia totalling 676,971 feet, and valued at £10,626, and palings, laths, shingles, and sleepers of a value of £2272 also came into the country. Included in the rough sawn timber were 9526 feet of ash and hickory, 35,943 feet of cedar, 1,032,253 feet of Douglas fir, 596,664 feet of ironbark, 197,261 feet of oak, and 877,655 feet of redwood. The sawn dressed timbers included 312,464 feet of Douglas fir, 18,243 feet of spruce, 172,985 feet for butter boxes, and 62,979 feet for cheese crates.

Timber exported totalled 2,721,417 feet, valued at £32,626, and included 368,564 feet of rough sawn kauri, .508,413 feet of rimu, and 1,648,632 feet of white pine.