LONDON MEAT PRICE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 8 December 1930, Page 14

LONDON MEAT PRICE

The New Zealand Meat Producers' Board has received the following cable from its London Oifice, dated sth Decem- j ber, 1930, advising approximate average I prices realised for the week in SmithfieTd market, and London stores, movements in prices on the week are in parentheses:— N.Z. Sheep.—Canterbury and North Island crossbred wethers, 48-56, 5% (down l-8d); Canterbury and North Island ] maiden ewes, 57-64, 5 l-8d (down l-8d); j selected, 65-72, 5 l-8d (down 1-Sd); North Island 48-56, 5 1-Sd (down 1-Sd), 57-G4, 5d (down. l-8d), 65-72, 5d (down l-8d): ewes, 48-64,3% d, 65-72, V&&. N.Z. Lambs.—Canterbury, 36 and under, &M; 37-42, 8 3-8 d; 43-50, 7 5-8 d; second quality, average, 33, 7 7-8 d; other South Island brands, 36 and under, B%d; 37-42, B%d; 43-50, 7 5-8 d; including downs, selected North Island brands, 36 and under, B%d; 37-42, B%d; 43-50, 7 5-8 d; selected North Island, second quality, average, 31, not quoted. Australian lambs, Victorian.—First quality, (new season's), 30 and under, 8 3-8 d (down l-8d); 37-42, 8 l-8d (down l-8d). Argentine- Lamb.—First quality (new season's), 36 and under, 8d; 37-42, 7%d. N.Z. Beef.—Ox, fores, 3 7-8 d (down l-8d); ox, hinds, 5d (down l-8d); cow, not quoted. Argentine Chilled Beef.—Ox, fores, 4%d; ox, hinds, 5%d. Australian Frozen Beef.— Ox crops, over 100, 3 7-8 d (down l-8d); ox hinds, over 160 t 4 7-8 d (down %d). N.Z. Prime Porker Tigs.—6o-100, Sd; 101----120 6%d (down %d). N.Z. Prime Baconer Pigs, 121-180, 6%d. N.Z. Frozen Veal, not quoted. Lambs: Market is steady, prices remaining unaltered. Meeting strong competition from new season's Australian and South American. Mutton Market: Wethers, weaker through increased pressure to sell. Ewes, steady with no change in. prices. Beef: Market is depressed through low prices of Argentine chilled beef. . N.Z. Porker Pigs: Trade slow, especially for heavyweights, owing to heavier supplies of Home killed. SOUTHERN FREEZING INDUSTRY. Messrs. T. Borthwick and Sons (Australasia), Ltd., have reopened their Canterbury works for the season. The New Zealand Refrigerating Co., Limited, in view of the backward nature of the season, which has-resulted in fewer lambs.offer-ing-at this'period than in previous;years, has not yet announced the re-opening of its works at Islington, but there is a possibility of work being commenced before Christmas. No information is yet available of the date of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company, Ltd., to resume operations.