LATE COMMERCIAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2290, 26 October 1914, Page 7

LATE COMMERCIAL

FROZEN MEAT MARKET. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (Rec. October 26, 0.5 a.m.) London, October 24. The Incorporated Society of Meat Im. porters' Smithfield market' nuotations for tho undermentioned classes of frozen meat are hased on actual sales of not less than one hundred caroasses of mutton or lamb, ot tv.cnty-'ivo quarters of beef, of fair average quality. The quotations are not for selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of tho bulk of the shipments now on the market. The prices which follow are on the average a farthing jier lb. more than tho values ex ship, this difference representing the average cost in expense, handling, conveyance, and selling of the moat:— Mutton— d. Canterbury, light 8 Canterbury, medium 515-16 Canterbury, heavy 53 Southland 513-16 North Island, best 513-16 New Zealand, owes 513-16 BeefNew Zeland, fores ;.... 5J New Zealand, hinds,'/ a 6J River Plate, frozen' fores 58 River Plate, frozen hinds 6} .River Plato, chilled fores 55 River Plate, chilled hinds 55 Uruguay, frozen fores 5J Uruguay, frozen hinds 6j Uruguay, chilled fores 5J Uruguay, chilled hinds 5£ ' Other meats are unchanged. Rabbits are steady and unchanged.