THE HOME MARKETS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12611, 23 November 1926, Page 8

THE HOME MARKETS

LATEST PRICES RULING HIGH COMMISSIONER’S CABLE FAIR DEMAND FOR STORED NEW ZEALAND BUTTER The Department of Agriculture lias received the following cablegram, dated the 20th instant, from the High Commissioner for New Zealand, London BUTTER. Fair demand for stored New Zealand and Australian. All others slow. Official quotations are: New Zealand—Finest salted: November 20th (old), 138 s to 142 s per cwt (1© 2Jd to Is 3d per lb); (new) 148 s to 150 s (Is 32d to Is 4d); November 13th (old), 1386 to 144 s (Is 2jd to Is 3Jd). Other qualities: November 20th. 130 s to 136 s (Is lijd to Is 2Jd). New Zealand Control Board official minimum prices are: Finest salted, 150 s per cwt (Is 4d); first grade, 148 s (Is 33d). Australian —Salted: November 20th, 138 s to 144 s per cwt (Is 2|d to Is 3Jd per lb); exceptional, 146 e (Is 3Jd); -November 13th, 14/0s to 144 s (Is 3d to Is 3*d). Unsalted: November 20th, 154 sto 158 s (Is 4*d to Is 4fd) ; exceptional, 160 s (Is sd); November 13th, 160 s to 164 s (Is 5d to Is s|d). Other qualities: November 20th, 116 s to 140 s (Is Old to Is 3d). Canadian—November 20th, 136 s to 140 s per cwt (Is 2jd to Is 3d); November 13th, 138 s to 142 s {ls 2|d to Is Sd). Irish—Creamery: November 20th, 140 s to 144 s up to 146 s per cwt (Is 3d to Is 3sd) to up to Is 3Jd per lb); November 13tb, 144 sto 148 s (Is 3jd to Is 3£d). Un6alted: November 20th, 150 s to 154 s (Is 4d to Is 4sd) up to 158 s (Is 43d); November 13th, 152 s to 156 s (Is 4id to Is 4*d). Argentine—Unsalted: November 20tb, 138 s to 140 s per cwt (Is 2fd to Is 4d) up to 142 s per cwt (Is 3d); November to 150 s (Is 3d to Is 4d). Other qualities: November 20th, 120 s to 134 s (Is Old to Is 2id)." Siberian—November 20th, 128 s to 134 s per cwt (Is Id to Is 2id); November 13th, 130 sto ISOs (Is lid to Is 2d). Other qualities:, November 20th, 124 s to 126 s (Is Id to Is Ud). Danish: November 20th, 170 s (Is 6sd); November 13th, 172 s (Is 6l\l). CHEESE. Colonial market quiet. Official quotations are : English finest farmers*: November 20th, 102 s to 108 s per cwt (lOfd to UJd per lb); November 13th, 102 s to 108 s (lofd to llld); demand is good for finest. Canadian—Coloured and white: November 20th, 85s to 88s (9d to 9Jd); November 13th: 86s to 88s (9d to 9id). New Zealand—Coloured and white: November 20th, 84s to 85s (9d); November 13th. 85s to 87s (9d to 91d). Control Board minimum prices for coloured and white are: Finest 85s (9d), first grade 84s (9d). Shipment of New Zealand produce arrived this week per s.s. Remuera. TALLOW. Market quiet. Present quotations are: Mutton, fine 42s 6d ‘to 43s per cwt. fair to good 40s 6d to 425, dark to dull 38s 6d to 39s 6d; beef, sweet and/or mixed 41s 6d to 44s fid, fair to good 39s 6d to 41s, dark to dull 37s 6d to 38s 6d; mixed, fair to good 39s to 40s 6d, dark to dull 37s 6d to 38s 6d; gut, etc., 35s 6d to 375. , CASEIN. Present quotations are:—French rennet £55, Argentine rennet £45, Argentine lactic £56. HEMP. Manila market firm. “J" grade, No-vember-January shipments, sold up to £4B. Sisal market firmer with little better demand. No. 1 Tanganyika, Novem-ber-January shipments, quoted £43. New Zealand market firm but quiet; Novum-ber-January shipments quoted sellers £3B 10s; fair afloat sold £36 ss; November- . January shipments £36. Stock in Great Britain October 31st 21 tons, against 133 tons same time last year. APPLES. American.—Little more demand for barrels, but slow sales for boxes. Prices for barrels are:—York Imperial, Stayman’s Winsap,'and Ben Davis, 18s to 24s per barrel; Albemarle, Newton Pippin, 30s per barrel. Prices for boxes are: Jonathan, Newton Pippin and Delicious, 8s to 12s per box; Cox’s Orange, 20s to 25s per box. WOOL. Bradfoid market steady and fair business doing at last quotations. MARKETS REPORTED “SLOW” New Zealand Producers’ Co-operative Marketing Association, Ltd. (per Mr G. David&on, secretary), forward copy of its weekly cabled market report, dated London, November 19th: Butter —Market slow, business confined to stored butter, controlled butter neglected. Butter afloat from New Zealand, Australia, and Argentine, 560,000 boxes. Controlled price. New Zealand, 148 s to 150 s; store according to age, 135 s to 140 s; Australian, 138 s to 1465; Danish, 170 s. Cheese—Market very plow, business mainly confined to stored. Controlled price, New Zealand, 81s to 85s; stored, 78s to 82s, according to ago and condition.