LONDON MEAT MARKET

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 90, 13 October 1934, Page 12

LONDON MEAT MARKET

MUTTON AND LAMB WEAKER

The Bank of New Zealand, produce department, has received the following advice from its London office as at close, of business this week:—

The market for wethers is depressed owing to absence of demand. The demand for ewes is moderate with prices-'a little lower. There is a weaker tendency for lambs owing to seasonal decline in demand. The demand and prices for beef are steady. Trade, generally affected by unfavourable weather. Wethers, light 4"% dto 5d per lb, heavy 4%d to 4%d; ewes, 2%d to 3%d; lambs, 2's 6 7-8 d to 7 l-Bd, B's 6%d to 6%d, 4's 5%d to 6d, seconds 6d to 6 3-8 d; ox hinds 3d to 3 3-8 d; fores 2 l-8d to 2 3-Bd. Levin and Co., Ltd., have received the following cable from their London agents, elated October 12, giving North , Island frozen meat quotations, as follows: —Down lambs, 28/361b 7 3-B<l per lb, 36/421b 6%d; crossbred lambs, 28/361b 7 1-Sd, 36421b 6 5-8 d; . second quality lambs, average 30/311b, 6 3-8 d; wethers, under 481 bsd, 48/561b 4%d, 56/641b 4%d, 64/721b i 5-8 d; ewes, under 481b 3%d, 48/o6lb 3%d, 56/641b 3%d, 64/721b 3 l-8d; New Zealand prime ok beef, 160/2201b, 2%d. Compared with last week's quotations, North Island Down lamb, 36/421b, l-8d per lb lower; wether^, under 561b, %d per lb lower, 56/721b l-8d per lb lower; ewes, l-8d per lb lower; prime ox beef, l-16d per lb lower; others unchanged. The market is ■quiet.