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Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1921, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

THE CHEESE MARKET. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Ltd. have received the following cablegram from their London house under date 26th Instant: — Canadian Cheese quotations.—White, £7 17s; coloured, £8 2s. Market firm. Tallow.—We quote present spot values for. the following descriptions: Fine mutton, £ 2 6s; good beef, £2 ss; mixed, £1 ,15s. Small demand, nominal quotations. Sale by auction suspended. WELLINGTON HIDE SALE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. There was a small attendance of buyers at the skin and hide sales to-day. Bidding for most lines was spiritless. One of the main reasons for the decline in prices is attributed to the fact that sales in Austral:! are deferred. The difficulty In securing shipping space also had an effect on the market. Cow hides from country butchers receded a halfpenny to a penny per pound, and ox a halfpenny per pound, compared with the previous sale. Super freezing hides declined a penny to twopence, calfskins a half-penny to a penny. The price of yearling skins was on par with the last sale, as were salted skins. Dry skins were a half-penny cheaper. Tallow showed an all-round drop of approximately £3 per ton; casks 245, tins 5s to 20s per cwt.