MEAT IN LONDON

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 13

MEAT IN LONDON

LITTLE INTEREST IN N.Z. LAMB

Little interest is being taken by the London market in.the ; remaining small stocks of old season's New Zealand lamb in view of substantial arrivals of new season's Australian 1 and South American, says the weekly cable received by the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board. In the mutton market wethers are meeting with better inquiry, with lightweights a shade firmer. Ewes are still selling slowly. There is a good demand for frozen beef at unchanged prices. Chilled beef is meeting with good demand, hindquarters being weaker and fores firmer. New Zealand porker pigs are firmer in anticipation of the Christmas demand, and baconer pigs are nominal, spot stocks being light. Trade in boneless bobby veal is slow. The board advises that the following are the rulm.j prices of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of frozen meat mentioned, and are for representative parcels of the goods sold on Thursday. Chilled beef prices are averages of the week. All prices are on the basis of delivered to Smithfield market. New Zealand and Australian frozen beef quotations are for second quality. Prices for the previous week are given in parentheses:— New Zealand sheep, crossbred wethers and/or maiden ewes. 48-under, 4 7-8 d a lb (4?d): 49-s*. 4Jd (4Jd); 57----64. 4Jd (43d); 65-72.' 4*d (4sd); ewes. 48-under. 3d (3d); 49-56, 2%d. (2jjd);,57 64, 2 0-8 d (24d); 65-72. 2 3-8 d(2 3-8 d): New Zealand lambs, Canterbury, 36----under. not quoted; 37-42. not quoted; 43-50, not quoted; second quality, average about 31, 6 5-8 d(6 5-8 d); other South Island, 36-under, not quoted; 37----42. 73d (73d); 43-50, not quoted; North Island Downs. 36-under, not quoted; 37-42, not quoted; 43-50. not quoted; second quality, average about 30, not quoted; North Island; first quality, 36-under. not quoted; 37-42, not quoted; second quality, average about 31. not quoted (6-Jd): Australian lambs. Victorian, first quality, 29-36. 7i|d (not quoted); first quality, 37-42. 7-Jd (not emoted); Argentine lambs, first quality, 36-under, 7d (7d); first quality, 37----42, 6fd (63d); New Zealand frozen beef, ox hinds, 145-210, 4/l-8d (4 l-8d); ox fores, 145-210. 3 3-8 d(3 3-8 d); Australian frozen beef, ox hinds. 145-210, 4=ld (4Jd); ox crops, weights corresponding. 3 3-8 d (3 3-8 d); New Zealand porker pigs, first quality. 61-80, 7Jd (7 3-8 d); 81-100, 7 l-8d (7d): 101-120, 6 5-8 d(6 5-8 d); New Zealand baconer pigs, 121-160, 5 7-8 d (6d); boneless bobby veal (new season's, ex store in parcels). 4^d (4.1 d); New Zealand chilled beef, ox hinds. 145-210, 5 7-8 d(5 7-8 d); ox fores. 145-210, 3 5-8 d (3J-d); Australian chilled beef, ox hinds. 145----210, 5 5-8 d (53d); ox crops, weights corresponding. 3 5-8 d(3 5-8 d); Union of South Africa chilled beef, ox hinds, •145-210, 6 l-8d (6 l-8d); ox fores. 145----210, 3|d (3|d); Southern Rhodesian

chilled beef, ox hinds, 145-210 5 7-8 d (8d); ox fores, 145-210. 3 3-8 d(3 3-8 d); Argentine chilled beef, ox hinds, 145----2107 6|d (6 5-8 d); ox fores, 145-210, 4jd (4 l-8d); Uruguayan chilled beef, ox hinds, 145-210, 6 l-8d (6 3-8 d); ox fores, 145-210, 4d (4d). New Zealand and Australian frozen beef quotations second quality. DIVIDENDS DUE. Clutha River Dredge—interim, %d {sterling, less British income tax) Dec. 3 Associated Newspapers, Sydney—ord. 3 per cent., pref. 3 per cent. .. Dec. 8 , Victoria Syanza Sugar—6 per cent. per annum Dec. t Consolidated Brick and Pipe Invest- "" ments, Auckland—interim at 4 per cent., cum Dec. T Loloma (Fiji) Gold Mines—ls per share (No. 3) Dec. 8 North Broken Hill—quarterly, Gd per share Dec 8 ' Noyes Bros. (Melbourne) Ltd.—halfyearly Interim 6^ per cent. ~ Dec. 9 1 Moonlight Goldflelds—7% per cent. Dec. 3 i New Zealand Breweries Ltd.—'interim, 4 per cent .«,... Dec. 10 , Bank of New Zealand—lnterim. Is per share, ord., 3.% per cent, on D long term mortgage shares Dec. 10 Gordon and Gotch (Australasia) — 1 final half-yearly, ord., G per cent, and bonus 1 per cent.: pref.. 4 per cent. ....#...'. Dec. 13 Golden Bay Cement—6 per cent, per i annum . . Dec. 15 ; Woolwprths (N.Z.), Ltd.— final, ord., at 16 ocr cent, per annum .. Dec 15 ■ P and O. deferred—final, 2% per cent., fionus 3 per cent. ..... Dec. 15 . Broken Hill South—-Od ocr share . Dec 15 Dominion Breweries, Auckland— , interim at 11 per cent, per annum Dec. 16 Mount Lyell—final Is per share . . Dec. 19 Devonport Steam Ferry Ltd.—interim : at 5 per cent, per annum .... Dec. 20 Sulphide Corporation—pref., Is (sterling) per share Dec. 22 Morris, fledstrom, Fiji—interim, 3 per cent Dec. HI K. and K. Tingey Ltd.—interim halfyear 3 per cent Dec. 31 British Tobacco—final, ord. at 10 . per cent, per annum and interim 2 per cent. Dec. 31 National Bank of New Zealand Ltd. —interim 2% per cent less U.K. ' income tax Jan. 1, Woolworths Properties, Ltd.—interim half-yearly at 6 per cent. per. annum . .Kan. 13