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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 9, 9 August 1916, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

HIGH COMMISSIONER’S REPORT.

The Hugh Commissioner’s called market report, dated London, August 5, states (quota dons, unless ctberwise specified, le.ag average market prices on spot):— .Meat.—No material change in the market. New Zealand mutton and lain!) is in small supply, but there are good supplies of Home killed mutton and English lamb. The hot weather is checking the demand for meat. Argentine beef arrivals are very small, with prices hardening. There is no New Zealand ox beef on the market, and a poor demand for secondary quality New Zealand cow beef. Now Zealand mutton B|d, ewe mutton 8- d,’Argentine mutton 9fd, New Zealand lamb 9, id, Argentine lamb lid, New Zealand bull beef hinds oid, fores 4id, New Zealand cow beef 5 9- fores '4jfd, Argentine chilled beef, hinds 12d, fores Bd. | - The butter market closed firm at an advance. Danish, salted, 182 sto 186 s; Irish creamery, salted 164 s to 168 s, unsalted 106 s to 168 s; Canadian, salted, 168 s to 170 s, unsalted, 170 s to 1725; New Zealand, salted 172 s u» 170 s, unsalted 172 sto 1765; Argon-., tine, unsalted 166 s to 168 s. The 1 cheese market is firmer. Canadian, white 92s to 935, colored. 925, to 945, good to fine quality, white 90s to 91s; English cheddar, 102 s to 106 s. New Zealand stocks are light, white being in small supply at 92s to 935, and occasionally 9.5 a, colored 92s to 935. At August 1 the estimated Canadian and United States cheese stocks in London, Liverpool and Bristol were 191,000 boxes, against 332,000 at the same time last year. The estimated New Zealand cheese stocks in London and Bristol are 13,500 crates, against 7250 the same time last year. i

Wool.—Merino prices are nominally unchanged, but the tone of the market is not guito so firm. Brices have slightly declined for all grades of fine crossbreds, but coarser sorts are unchanged.