COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 August 1916, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

mem OOMMTSSION*F,irtf REPORT. Meat.---Owing to continued supplies f Xew Zealand mutton and lamb beig small, A i gen tine mutton prices are ighor. Home-killed mutton and Ivngish laanb are in good supply. Lower rie;« are being quoted for Argentine ■eel' owing to i net ease in supply. Secndary quality New Zealand beef is in >oor demand at lower prices. .<e\\ 'ealand mutton 'Bijd per lb: ewe mutiin B.iil; Argentine mutton Ojd ; Now lealaud hunb 9Jd ; Argentine lamb lid. U'W Zealand bull lieoF. hinds Ojjd, lores id. Argentine chilled beeif, hinds Id, fores 6id. Butter.---The market continues firm. )anish salted, per cwf., ]9fts to 200s: risli creamery, salted 178s to 182s : unultod 180s to 184s: Canadian, salted. 7<is to 180ts; good to fine quality saltd 170s to 171s: Argentine (insulted 71s to 1765. Cheese. The market is firmer. Oandiau, white 9-">s to 98s ; ICnglish ehedar inSs to 112s. Xew Zealand, white ! 8s : coloured !)">s to $:"«: speculative uiying white l)3s to 955: coloured o 945. Hemp. The market is quiet but toady. The demand is principally peeiilative. Good fair New Zealand .'lB fOs. frir Gdfi 10s; (Inrernmeiit ;raded fair .Manila Col Ifks. coarse £IS os. Forward .shipment: Good-fair sew Zealand L' 47 10s. fair Cl 5 10s: ■ overntnent graded fair Manila ;£s'.l : iiarso £47 10s. The output of hemp it .Manila for the week ending last >Sattrday was 11.000 hales. Wheat.--The market is firm but eratie on account of conflicting report's egarding American crop. No. 1 Mautoba .Vorthern. Angnst-feptember. sold rom fi3s to 65s 6d. Oatn. -The market is quiet, and pries are slightly weaker owing to "Rngsh new crop offering. Argentine on pot 30s : Fnglish old 355. new fV's Od. Wool. The market is dull and nn-et-tled on aceount of possibility of Gov■rnment reqii'sftionint; colonial wool.