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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4862, 7 August 1925, Page 3

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HAMILTON STOCK SALE. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., reports: - We held our usual weekly stock sale in the Frankton yards on Tuesday, there being a fair entry of stock of all classes. The competition was again firm throughout, and was more noticeable in the beef- pens, which ishowed a marked advance on values received the previous week. The following are quoted:— Beef: Medium-weight prime steers £l5 to £l5 15s, light prime £l3 12s 6d to £141; best fat cows £ll 5s to £ll 15s, light prime £8 to £9 18s, ordinary and light £5 9s to £5 18s, unfinished £4 5s to £5 8s; good framed store cow's £4 to £5, others- £3 5s to £3 l'ss j 18-months £4 17s ; small Jersey-crosK yearling heifers 32s 6d. Medium fat wethers £2; medium quality fat ewes 34s to 35s 6d ; forward woolly hogged 28s to 295, small 18s-: 6d, culls 12s sd, cull ewes 6s ■ 6d. Pigs : Light baconers £4 2s to £4 10s, othens £3 10s to £3 16s ; small porkers £2 10s to £3 3s ; slips 28s to 35s ; weaners 16 sto 225. MEAT PRODUCERS’ BOARD. LONDON’S MEAT SUPPLY. The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has been advised by its London manager tliat the supply of meat and like produce to the London Central Markets during the five months ended May aggregated 193,703 tons, as against 203,019 tons for the same period last year—a decrease of 9316 tons or 4.6 per cent. Imported supplies, apart from produce originating in Ireland, formed 81.2 per cent, of the total quantity of produce marketed. British and Irish supplies aggregated 36,393 tons, or 18.8 per cent, bf the total supply; New Zealand and Australia 33,999 tons, or 17.6 per cent.; Argentine, 90,129 tpns, or 46.8 per cent.; Netherlands and other foreign countries, 32,582 tons, or 16.8 per cent. ORIGIN OF SUPPLIES. Beef and veal, 106,882 tons, 85.1 per cent., imported: Argentine leading with 77.759 tong or 72.8 per cent.; Britain and Ireland 15,976 tpns or 14.9 per cent.; New Zealand and Australia 5.135 tons or 4.8 per cent.; and other countries 8012 tons, or 7.5 per cent.

Mutton and lamb, 52,311 tons, 82.2 per cent., imported: New Zealand and Australia leading with '27,574 tpns or 52.7 per cent: ; Argentine 12,770 tons or 24>.4 per cent.; Britain and Ireland 9293 tons or 17,8 per cent.; and other countries 2674 tons or 5.1 per cent. - Pork, 22,813 tons, 75.5 per cent., imported : Netherlands leading with 15,179 tons or 66.5 per cent.; Britain and Ireland 5818 ton's or 25.5 per cent.; and other countries 1816 tons or 8 per cent. PRICES COMMITTEE. In connection with the suggestion made by the recent Food Prices Commission at Home the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has received advice by the last mail, from its London manager that the Prime Minister (Mr Baldwin) has just announced that he is prepared to set up the suggested Food Prices Committee, but in the meantime he does not- propose to give it statutory powers. If these powers are required later, however, he has stated that they will be given. The Prime Minister also stated that Cabinet has .decided to adopt the suggestion that the statistics of food in cold stores shall be regularly published. It will be remembered that the New Zealand Meat Producers Board was the first to advocate this before the previous Commission, which «at in 1923, and was commonly known as the Linlithgow Commission. The subject was reintroduced by the board’s London manager before the recent Royal Commisssion on food prices, and it is very satisfactory to konw that the board’s suggestion is now going to be carried out. SOUTH AMERICAN SHIPMENTS. The board’s South American repre--sentative at Buenosi Aires has cabled the following atrice concerning shipments to the United Kingdom for the fortnight ended July 23, 1925, from Argentine and Uruguay: 175,656 quarters of chilled beef, 16,571 quarters of frozen beef, 77,388 carcases pf frozen mutton, 108,750 carcases of frozen lamb. The quantity shipped tp the Continent of Europe during the same period totalled 80,964 quarters of frozen beef and 5647 carcases of frozen mutton.