LONDON MEAT MARKET

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 12

LONDON MEAT MARKET

CHILLED BEEF DEARER

The frozen lamb market in London is very firm, with further improvement in prices, according to tne weekly cable received by the New Zealand Meat Producers' .Board. Wethers are meeting with good trade with prices again higher. For ewes the market is quiet and unchanged. No frozen beei is available. Chilled beef is very firm with prices higher. Trade in New Zealand porker pigs is slow, with prices unchanged. Baconers are slightly easier owing to the weak bacon market. The approximate average wholesale prices for the week with those for the previous week in parentheses, are:— N.Z. sheep: Crossbred wethers and/or maiden ewes, 48/ under 5 3-8 d a lb (51d), 49/56 5d (4 7-8 d), 57/64 4}d (4 3-8 d), 65/72 4 5-3 d (4 3-8 d); ewes, 48/ under 4 3-8 d(4 3-8 d), 49/56 3 7-8 d (3 7-8 d), 57/64 3 5-8 d (3 5-8 d), 65/72, Sid (3J). New Zealand lambs: Canterbury, 36/ under 7id (7 3-8 d), 37/42 7d (6 7-8 d); 43/50, 63d (6 5-8 d), second quality, average about 31, 7 l-8d I7d); other South Island, 36/ under 7Jd (7 3-8 d), 37/42 7d (6 7-8 d), 43/50 63d (6 5-8 d); North Island Downs, 36/ under 7 5-8 d (7Jd). 37/42 7d (7d), 43/50 6td (6 5-8 d); second quality, average about 30, 7 5-8 d (7id); North Island, first quality, 36/ under 7 3-8 d (7id), 37/42 6 7-8 d (63d); second quality, average about 31, 7d (7d). Australian lambs: Victorian, first quality, 29/36 63d (6 5-8 d); 37/42, 6£d C 6 3-8 d). Argentine lambs, first quality. 36/ under. 6 5-8 d (6id); 37/42, 6 l-8d .(6d) New Zealand chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210 6d (not quoted); fores, 14a/210. 4 3-8 d (not quoted). Australian chilled beef: Ox hinds. 145/210, 53d (54d); .crops, weights corresponding, 4id (4 l-8d). Union of South Africa chilled beef: Ox hinds. 145-210. 6 l-8d (53d); fores, 145/210. 4id (4}d). Southern Rhodesian chilled beef: Ox hinds, '145/210,,5 3 8d (51d); fores, 145/210, 3 7-8 d (33d). Argentile 'chilled beef: Ox hinds 145/210, 6Jd (61d); fores 145/210 4 5-8 d (4id). Uruguayan chilled beef Ox hinds. 145/210, 6id (5 7-8 d); fores, 145/210. 4 3-8 d (4Jd). Brazilian chilled beef Ox hinds, 145/210, 6d (5 5-8 d). New' Zealand porker pigs: First quality 61/80 6 3-8 d(6 3-8 d); 81/100 6 3-8 d(6 3-8 d) 101/120, 6 3-8 d (6 3-8 d) New Zealand baconer pigs, 121/160, 6 3-8 d (6id).