MEAT PRICES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 79, 20 April 1937, Page 15

MEAT PRICES

Smithfield QuotatiohWEEK'S QUOTATIONS -ihe Ntw Zealand Meat Producers' Board advises that ihe following are the approximate average prices realised for jthe week, based on actual transactions of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of meat mentioned and are for representative parcels of the goods offering during the weelf, being for business done on the basis of delivered to Smithfield Market, and/or ez London stores (prices for the previous week are also chown) New Zealand sheep: Crossbred wethers and/or maiden ewes, 48/under, 5Jd per 1b. (51 d) ; 49/56, 5 l-8d (5Jd); . 57/64, 4 5-83 (4 5-8d); 65/72, 4*3 (4Jd), Ewes, 48/under, 41d (41d); 49/56, 42d (4*5); 57/64, 4 l-8d (4 l-8d); 65/72, 4d (4d). Noir Zealand lambs: Canterbury, 36/under, 7 l-8d (7*3); 37/42, 6£d (6 7-8d)j. 43/50, 6 3-8d (6 3-8d). Second quality, average about 31, 6 7-8d (6 7-8d). Other South Island, 36/under,' 7 l-8d (7*d); 37/42, 6Jd (6 7-8d); 43/50, 6 3-8d (6 3-8d). North Island Downs, 36/under, 7Jd (723) ; 37/42, 6Jd (6 7-8d)j 43/50, 6 3-8d (6 3-8d). Second quality, average abont 30, 7 l-8d (7. l-8d). North Island, first . quality, 36/under, 7d (7d); 37/42, 6 5-8d (6Jd). Second quality, average about 31, 6£d (61d). Australian lambs: Victorian, first • quality, 29/36, 6 3-8d (6id); 37/42, 6 l-8d (6 l-8d). Argentine lambs: First quality, 36/Under, 62d (6*3); 37/42, 5 5-8d (5 5-8d). New Zealand frozen beef: Not quoted. Australian frozen beef: Ox hinds, 145/210, 4 l-8d (4 l-8d); ox crops, 4d 3«a). " New Zealand chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210, 41d (41d)j ox fores, 145/210, Sld (3fd). Australian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 1145/210, 4 3-8d (4|d) j ox crops, 3 5-8d ! jt(3£d).; New Zealand porker pigs: First quality, 61/80, 6Jd (6Jd) j 81/100, 6 1-80 (6 l-8d) ; 101/120, 6 l-8d (6 l-8d). ' New Zealand baconer pigs: 121/160, 62 d (6 1-83), Lanib market: Sh»3e easier but demand is improving. Mutton market: Wethers and ewes quiet with prices unchanged. "Beef market.— Chilled beef: Heavier supplies this week with prices for hjndquarters steady and fores easier. Frozen beef: Finn owing to light stocke. New Zealand porker pigs; Firmer for heavyweights; lightweights unchanged. New Zealand baconer pigs: Firmer owing to higher prices of bacon. . - iin ■ in m