FROZEN MEAT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2218, 3 August 1914, Page 4

FROZEN MEAT.

By Telegraph-pPr.aas Association—Copyright - > (P.ec. August 3, 0.5 a.m.) London, August 1. The Incorporated Societyof Meat Importers' Smithfield market quotations for tho undermentioned classes-of. frozen meat are based on actual sales of nut less than one hundred carcasees of mutton or lamb, or twenty-five quarters of beef of fair aver-; ago quality. Tho quotations aro not for' selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of the shipments now on the market. Tho prices which follow are on. tho average a farthing per lb. moro than the values ex ship, thisdifference' representing the average cost inerpi/Dee. handling, conveyance, and sellina tho mcat:~

July 18. Aug. 1. Mutton- d. ' d. : Canterbury, light 1 45 % ■ Canterbury, medium ...... 43-16 .4 3-16 Canterbury, heavy 315-16 4 Southland ■ 9 , 45 North Island, best .41 4i North Island, ordinary 3j 315-16 Australian,. light 33 33 1 Australian,-, heavy 3j- 33 River Plato.. light * . * River Plato', heavy * •• * Now Zealand owes 3$ 3J Australian ewes 35 3f| liiver Plate ewes 3i 3J Lfttitb— Canterbury, light 63-16 515-16 Canterbury light, second quality 53 .53 Canterbury, medium 5J 5). Canterbury, heavy 1 5 s;j Southland 513-16 511-16 North Island selectod ... 53 55 North Island, ordinary ... 53-8 ■ 511-16 Australian, best 511-16 511-16 Australian, fair 511-16 511-16 . i Australian, interior s!i 5} ■ itivcr Plate, first 53 511-16 lU\cr Plate second 5j 45 Beef— , New Zealand, 01 fores ... 33-8 33 New Zealand, ox hinda ... 4t 5 Australian, ox fores 3 3-8 33 Australian, ox hinds 4J 43 liiver Plate, ox fores 338 3ii Itivcr Plate, ox hinds 4 3-8 5 liiver Plate, chilled fores 35 33 liiver Plato; chilled liinds Uruguay, frozen fores ... u "Uruguay; frozen hinds ... 4J " Uruguay, chilled hinds ... SS ♦Niftie offering.