SOUTH AMERICAN BEEF SOLD AS NEW ZEALAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 357, 18 May 1928, Page 12

SOUTH AMERICAN BEEF SOLD AS NEW ZEALAND

ADMIRALTY SUPPLIES (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian Press Association.) LONDON. Thursday. The Parliamentary Secretary of the Admiralty, Lieutenant-Colonel C. M. Headlam, stated in the House of Commons that a contractor who had recently supplied South American beef as New Zealand had been struck off the Admiralty’s list of those eligible as tenderers. There was no suggestion that the proprietors of the cold stores from which the meat in question was supplied were in any way to blame. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) SYDNEY, Thursday. The following are to-day’s quotations on the Sydney produce market:— Wheat.—Growers’ bagged lots, at country stations, 4s llld to ss; ex truck, Sydney, 5s 7d to 5s 7Xd. Flour. —Export tra.de lifeless. Local, £l3 15s. Bran—£7. Pollard.—£B. Oats.—Tasmanian Algerian, 4s 6d to 4s 9d; white, 4s 6d r.o 4s lOd. Maize.—Yellow, 4s 2d; white, 4s 6d. Potatoes.—Tasmanian, £5 to £8 10s. Onions. —Victorian, £l3. Adelaide prices are:— Wheat.—Growers’ lots, 5s 6d to 5s 7d. Flour.—Bakers’ lots, £l4. Bran.—£7 2s 6d. Pollard, — £8 ss. Oats. —3s 3d. MELBOURNE HIDES (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) MELBOURNE, Thursday. The hides market is irregular. Stouts and kips are unchanged, other sorts 4d to id lower. MINING NEWS WAIHI. —The following information has been cabled to London: For the period ended May 5.—17,401 tons of ore were crushed for the result of 5,596 fine ounces of gold and 34,515 fine ounces of silver. This includes 2,630 tons of ore mined from the Grand Junction area. The yielding was 731 ounces of gold and 2,213 ounces of silver, and the actual crushing time 21i days. In the No. 3 level, driving east on the Mary lodge, the next 13 feet assays 5s a ton, and the next 14 feet 50s 3d a ton. The reef is wider than the drive. In the No. 10 level, driving east, on the right hand branch of the Republic lode, in the Grand Junction area, the next 26ft assays 9s a ton. This has now holed through to former workings. In the Dominion lode, in the Gand Junction area, driving west, the next 27ft assays 117 s 6d a ton. In the West lode, from the Shark crosscut, a further 22ft has been driven without any change. In the No. 11 level of the Empire lode, in the Gand Junction area, a further 19ft has been driven east. The assay value is 15s a ton. In the cross-cut at 72ft the last sft assays 32s 9d a ton. In the No. 13 level of the Empire lode, in the Grand Junction area, a further 4Sft has been driven east, and the assay value is 14s a ton. In the No. 14 level of the Martha lode, driving east has been commenced from 547 feet point, and the first 31ft assays 19s 9d a ton. The diamond drill hole No. 21 is being drilled horizontally northward, from the end of Hopkins’s cross-cut at the No. S level. At 165 ft the drill enters quartz and silicified country, which has been penetrated 27ft and show's traces of bullion.