STEADY MARKET

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 35, 10 August 1936, Page 12

STEADY MARKET

FROZEN MEAT IN LONDON

The frozen lamb market in London is steady, with prices practically unchanged, according to the weekly report received by the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board. Consumption is overtaking the arrivals. The mutton market for wethers and ewes is steady and unchanged, with fair trade. The frozen beef market is unchanged. Chilled beef prices are better owing to cooler weather. New Zealand porker pigs are firmer with more demand. Baconer pigs are firm with spot stocks short.

The approximate average wholesale prices for the week, with those for the previous week in parentheses, were:—■

New Zealand sheep: Canterbury and North Island selected, crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, 48/ under 5 l-8d a lb (5 l-8d); 48/56 4 3-8 d(4 3-8 d), 57/6-1 4 l-3d (4 l-8d). 65/72 4d (4d)" North Island, 48/5G 4 3-8 d(4 3-8 d), 57/64 4 1-Sd (4 l-8d), C 5/72 4d (4d); ewes, 48/ under 4,', d(4 l-8d), 43/64 3?d (3Jd), 65/72 3Jd (3id). New Zealand lambs: Canterbury, 36/ under 7d l7d), 37/42 63d '.63d), 43/50 6 3-8 d <6;d). second quality, average about 31, 6 5-8 d (6 5-8 d); other South Island. 36/ under 7d (7 1-Sd), 37/42 6:; d (6:; d), 43/50 6 3-8 d (6 3-8 d); North Island Downs, 36/ under 7jd (7Ud), 37/42 63d (CM), 43/50 6]d (6:! d), second quality, average about 30,7 d (7d); North Island, first quality, 36/ under 6 7-8 d(6 7-d), 37/42 6 5-8 d(6 5-8 d), second quality, average about 31, 6J.d (6Jd); Australian lambs Victorian, first quality, 36/ under 6',d (6Jd), 37/42 6d (6d); Argentine lambs, first quality, 36/ under 6!d (6',ti). 37/42 s:|d (5Jd); New Zealand frozen beef, ox hinds, 145/210 3 5-8 d(3 5-Sdj lor'-s 145/210 2 5-8 d (2 5-8 d); New Zealand chilled beef, ox hinds, 145/210 oid (4Jd), fores 145/210 2 7-8 d(2 5-3 cl- ) chilled beef, ox hinds 145/ 210 6d (5Jd), fores, 145/210 3-Jd (3d)-; Uruguayan chilled beef, ox hinds, 145/ 210 5 l-8d (4 a,d). fores, 145/210 3d (23d); Brazilian chilled beef, ox hinds, 145/210 4 5-8 d (4}d); Australian frozen beef, ox hinds, 145/210 33d (3Jd), crops, weights corresponding, 23d (23d): Australian chilled beef, ox hinds, 145/210 4£d (4:', d), crops, weights corrcsnonding, 2 7-8 d (23d); Union of South Africa chilled beef, ox hinds. 145210 not quoted fs ; \d). fores, 145/210 not quoted (23d); Southern Rhodesian chilled beef, ox hinds. 145/210 4'd (4d), fores 145/210 2Jd (2!d)- New Zealand porker pigs, first quality, 6080 6d (6d), 81/100 6d (6d), 101/120 6 l-8d (6d); New Zealand prime baconer pigs, 121-160 6 l-8d (6 l-8d).