MEAT IN LONDON

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 49, 13 March 1937, Page 15

MEAT IN LONDON

The Nsw Zealand Meat Producers' Board has been advisea by its London manager that the following xetail prices were being quoted for New Zealand larnb and muttoa xetailed in London during February, 1937. These prices repr«sent a fair average of the prices quoted by the better class slhops in London for the best quality of New Zealand lamb and mutton. Prices aTe: Lamb; Legs, 12d per lb.; shoulders, Hd per lb.; loins, lld per lb.; necks, 6d per lb.; breasts, 3d per lb.; forequarters, 8$d per lb.; hindquarters, 314d per lb. ' " ^ Wethers: Legs, 9d per lb,; shoulders, 3d per lb,j loins, §d per lb,; neeks, 4d •per lb,; breasfee, 2d per lb. The New Zealand Meat Produeers' Board is advisea. by cable from its Lonidon office that the shipnients from Aus' itralia, South Affienca and South Africa. ito the United Ningdom during the Imonth of February, 1937, were as fol-! Now:— Australia: Carcases mutton, 99,906 ;t jcarcases lamb, 431,000; quarter? beefi I (frozen), 42,869; quarters beef (chilled),! 5615. South America: Carcases mutton, 5910; carcases lamb, 338,990; quarters beef (frozen), 2662; quarters beef • (chilled), 426,810. ^ South Africa (including Southern iRhodesia) : quarters beef (chilled), '6240. " i New Zealand: Carcases mutton, • 98,310; carcases lamb, 999,227; quarters J 'beef (frozen), 2151; quarters beef ! (chilled), 16,S5N.