FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14885, 27 January 1914, Page 8

FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

LONDON, January 25. The Frozen Meat Trade Association's Smithfield Market quotations for the undermentioned classes of frozen meat are based on actual sales of not fewer than 100 carcases of mutton or lamb or 25 carcases of beef, of fair average quality. These quotations are not ior selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of the shipments now on the market: — Jan. 17. Jan. 25. Mutton— .. d - d * Canterbury, light •• A/J. — Canterbury, medium -- AS). — Canterbury, heavy .. A A). — Southland •• •• £t*o* ~ North Island, best brands — North Island, ordinary .. ->-0. 4* New Zealand, ewes .. A.O. ~ Australian, light •• — * ]-}* Australian, ewes .. •• — _ **•** Australian, heavy •• — * *-"•*» River Plate, light •• — _ Kiver Plate, heavy •- — Kiver Plate, ewes •• — Lamb— • Canterbury, light •• A.O. — Canterbury, medium •• >-JJ. — Canterbury, heavy •• N-O- — North Island, selected .. A.O. — North Itfiand, ordinary .. N.Q. — Southland, selected -- •* N -°- — Australian, best brands .. 5 11-16 — Australian, fair quality .. — — Australian, inferior, light weight .. •■ •• — s i River Plate, let quality .. — ■ 5J Kiver Plate, 2nd quality .. — 5J Beef (nominal) — New Zealand, fores -. ]*,•&' — New Zealand, hinds .. — Australian, fores •• * * I-"- 6 Australian, hinds .. 4 5-16 — River T*late, chilled fores 4 1-16 4 River Plate, chilled hinas 4 13-16 — River Plate, frozen fores.. 4 — River Plato, frozen hinds 4_ — RABBITS. Rabbits—Prices aro unchanged, the market being inactive owing to declining value of skins. LONDON WOOL SALES. At the wool sales tho Thistle clip averaged IOJd, top prico being During the sales sixty thousand bales were sold tor the Home market, fiftyfive thousand for the Continent, six thousand for America, while six thousand were held over. Dalgetv and Company, Limited, Christchurch, have received from their London office, under date January 24th, the following cablegram:— The wool sales closed firm and active with brisk competition. As compared with last sale's closing rates, prices of greasy and scoured super-merino wools are unchanged. Greasy merinos, medium sorts, o to 7\ per cent higher; scoured, 5 per cent, higher; greasy merinos good quality and condition, o to 7. per cent, higher; scoured, 5 por cent, higher; greasy merinos, heavy, earthy and wasty, also faulty scoured merinos, prices irregular; greasy crossbred wools, fino quality, 5 per cent, higher;, scoured, par to 5 -per cent, higher; greasy crossbreds, medium quality, 5 per* cent, to 74 per cent, higher ; greasy, crossbreds, coarse quality, par to 5 per cent, higher; scoured crossbreds, medium and coarse qualities, unchanged. Slipe wools unchanged. Total net quartity available amounted to 127,000 bales, of which some 5000 bales wero sola to America, 55,000 bales to the Continent, 60,000 hales for Homo consumption, leaving 7000 bales to he carried forward.