SMITHFIELD PRICES.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 139, 9 December 1929, Page 14

SMITHFIELD PRICES.

The New Zealand Meat Producers' Board has received the- following cable from its London office, dated Oth December, advisnig Smithfield delivered prices averaged for week ending that date and movements on the week given in parentheses as follows:—N.7.. wethers and maidens: Canterbury quality, selected brands, 56/ under, 6%d;. 57/64, 6%d; 05/72, 6d. Other brands 56/ under, 6%d; J37/64, 6 l-8d; 65/72, 5%d N.Z. ewes:/ 64/ under; 4 3-Bd. N.Z. lambsCanterbury quality, 36/ under, B%d; 37/42. 8d; 43/50, 7%d; seconds, 7d. Selected brands, 36/ under, B%d; 37/42, 7%d. Other wanda, Ist quality, 36/ under, not quoted; 37/42, not quoted. Second quality, 30/32 average, 6 7-8 d (down l-8d). Australian lambs (new season's): Victorian, Ist qual 36/ under, 8d (down l-8d); 37/42, 73id. Argentine lambs (new season's); Ist quality 36/ under 7%d (down l-8d); 37/42, 7%d N.Z. beef: Not quoted. Argentine chilled beef^Ox fores, 5 3-Bd.(up l-8d); ox hinds, 7 7-8 d (up l : 8d). Australian frozen beefOx crops over 1001b, 5d (up l-8d); ox hinds over 1601b, 6%d. N.Z. frozen porkPo/kers, 60/801b 10% d (up %d); 81/991b" 10d (up %d); 100/1201b, 9%d (up %d)baconers, 121/180 Ib B%d. Frozen veal, not quoted. Lamb: Market unchanged. Mutton market: Better inquiry for both wethers and ewes. Prices remaining unaltered. N.&; beef: Good inquiry forward shipments. . N.Z. porker pigs: Market very firm owing to small stocks. N.Z. baconer pigs: Nominal prices.