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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3691, 28 November 1912, Page 2

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STOCKS AND SHARES. AUCKLAND EXCHANGE. [BY TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT] AUCKLAND, Nov. 27. Following- were to-day’s prices on the Auckland Exchange (through Mr W. Lissant Clayton) Sales: Junction 225, Waiotahi 2.s 9d, Waitangi 8d and Bid. Following are the closing prices (sellers first, then buyers): Waihi 33s ,3d and 32s 6d, Junction 22s and 21s 9d, Extended 7d and sd, Reefs Is and Bd, Talisman 39s 6d and 38s Cd, Crowns Is 9d and Is 6d, May Queen lid and 9d, Sylvia Is 2d and is Id, Occidental Is 4d and Is 2d, Waiotahi 2s lid and 2s Bd, Waitangi B[d and 7id, Watchman 2s 7d and 2s 3d, Ross 4s lid and 4s 9d, llauraki Reefs 5d and lid, Ditto (paid) 8d and 4d, Old llauraki Is ' d and lid, Mountain King 4d and 2d, New Waitaia (cont) Is 6d and is 3d.

WELLINGTON PRICES. WELLINGTON, Nov. Mr A. T. Bate (Mr. W. Lissant Clayton, local agent) reports:— Bank of New Zealand buyer 208 s, Metropolitan seller 2505, Trust seller 150 s, Gior (Ist) seller 257 s 6d, Wellington Meat 2nd) seller 100 s, Wellington Woollen (ord) buyer 74s 6d, Taringamutu Timber 4'”;, Golden Bay buyer 20s, seller 21s, Wairarapa Farmers' seller 1455, Blackwater seller 25s 6d, Murray seller 11s (premium), Big River seller 105 s, Sylvia buyer Is (sale Is ltd), Ross buyer 4s 6d, seller ss, Waihi buyer 32s Gd, seller 33s 3d, Junction buyer 21s 9d, seller 22s 3d, Waitangi buyer 7d. GISBORNE EXPORTS. The following figures show the quantity and value of the principal products passed through the Gisborne Customs office for export from New Zealand during the period Nov. 1 to Nov. 15: Butter, 333 cwt. valued at £1987; cheese, 108 cwt valued at £327; wheat, 5866 bushels valued at £1100; oats, 19,996 bushels valued at £2333; grain and pulse other than wheat and oats, 8,186 bushels valued at £2456;; J hides, 165 valued at £195; skins (all kinds! j j 5,886 valued at £974; tallow, 6 tons valued at £150; wool 9071 lbs. valued at £542. j LONDON MEAT MARC.ET. I Messrs Gilbert Anderson and Co. report under date London, October 18:The prominent feature in the meat trade is the very large increase in supplies of fresh meat, British bred. The weeks ending September 28 show an increase over the corresponding weeks of last year of 522 tons, October 5, 522 tons, October 12, 747 tons. This great increase is mainly owing to large quantities of cattle, sheep, and lambs killed in Ireland I and sent to London as dead meat through the restrictions caused by foot and mouth disease outbreak. The demand for frozen meat therefore suffer;; le a very considerable extent. Home grown.—Beef 4id to 7id, mutton j 5d to 7d, tegs 5-? d to 7ld, ewes 4d to 4LI j (Dutch mutton 5d to s|d>, lambs 5d to i 7td, Scotch hill lambs std to old, Irish '•! ; to 6d (Dutch 6d to 6id), Pork 7id to Ud. j veal 6i‘d to Bd. j Chilled beef.—Fores 23d, hinds 4fd. j Frozen beef.—New Zealand fores 2Jd. hinds 32d, Australian 23d and 33d, River Plate 2£d. and 3id. I Frozen mutton. —Southland and be<-t j New Zealand 43d, ordinary 4 5-16 d, ewes 33d. Australian 4d, Plates 4d. i Frozen lambs.—Canterbury, under 3G j 53d, 36-42 52d, 42-50 sd; Southlands end j best New Zealand 50d; ordinary 5 5-1 Gd. i Australian and Plates nil. ; Advice of Monthly Frozen Meat Ship- j merits— !

LONDON DAIRY PRODUCE MARKET. Messrs AA r . AA'eddell and Co’s weekly market report under date London. Oct. 18. is as follows ; Butter. —The demand for strictly “choicest” Australian and New Zealand butter continues good, but the quantity of this quality, either arriving or in cold store, is very small. For lower qualities there is no change from the slow demand of the past months. Prices for salted Australian range from 112 s at 116 s pox cwt. unsalted is 4s higher. - Arrivals this week consist of 1,236 boxes from Australia. Shipments this week advised by cable amount to 30,125 boxes from Australia and 27,200 from New Zealand. For the corresponding • week last year the figures were: Australia 17,470, and New Zealand 27.600. As in the case of. Australian butter, the demand in our markets for “choicest” Foreign butter is firm, but other grades meet with little inquiry. The total arrivals of butter for the past four weeks were 31,658 c\yts. loss than lor the corresponding period last year. Arrivals of British Dominion butter were 25,806 cwts. less and Foreign 5.852 loss. The arrivals from the following Foreign countries for the four weeks this year compared with last year show great irregularities, though the total is almost identical, being only 16 cwts. more. Siberian is 14,463 cwts. less; ; Danis}!, 4,147 less; and Swedish is 780 j less; French, however, is 17,27 cwts. more; Dutch. 1,428 more; and Argentine 400 more. The other countries differ only slightly from last year. Cheese. —The market for Canadian cheese is quiet, with prices on the easy side, and “choicest” white is selling at 64s and 655, and colored 64s and 66s per cwt. There is no New Zealand on the spot, but there is, in some quarters, a desire to sell forward, and sales have already been made ex “Turalcina,” due October 31, as low as 635. per cwt. r i.f.

Frozen Chilled Mutton Lamb Beef. Beef. Sept. 1911 ... 407,700 127,355 185,105 205.153 Sept. 1912 ... 307,400 81,024 178.400 155,500 Shipments during October 1912 (to date)— New Zealand 5,000 7,000 Australia ... 24,250 22,500 35,500 River Plate 93,500 21,000 72,000 70,000 122,750 50,500 107,500