FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 224, 21 August 1937, Page 5

FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

VALUES IN LONDON. LAMB MARKET STEADY. The lamb market is steady and unchanged. Consumption continues good. Mutton market: Wethers quiet but firm. Ewes: Lightweights slightly easier, other descriptions unchanged, with trade slow. Beef market: Frozen beef, market steady and unchanged. Chilled beef, hindquarters easier owing to heavier supplies; fores firmer owing to cooler weather. New Zealand porker pigs: Market quiet and steady, with prices unchanged. New Zealand bacorfer pigs: Nominal; very few available. The above report was received yesterday by the Meat Board, which advises that the following represent prices realised on Thursday based on actual transactions of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of meat mentioned and are for representative parcels of the goods offering that day, being for business done on the basis of delivered to Smithfield market and-or ex London stores. In the case of chilled beef the prices represent approximate average prices realised for the week. Prices for the previous week are shown in parentheses: New Zealand sheep.—Crossbred wethers and-or maiden ewes, 481 b and under, sijd (s£d): 491 b to 561 b. 5 3-8 d (5 3-8 d) • 571 b to-641b, 5 3-8 d (5 3-8 d); 651 b to 721 b, 5Jd (si-d). Ewes, 431 b and under, 4d (4 l-8d); 4911. to 561 b. 3 7-8 d(3 7-8 d); 571 bto 641 b, 3 5-8 d (3 5-Bdj; 651 b to 721 b, 3 5-8 d (3 5-8 d). New Zealand .lambs.—Canterbury, 361 b and under, 7|d (7Jd): 371 b to 42',b. 7£d (lid); 431 b to 501 b, 7£d (7id): second qiialitv. average about 311 b. 7d (7d). Other South Island, 361 b and under, 7|d (7|d); 371 b to 421 b. 7£d (7Jd); 431 b to 501 b. 7Jd (7£d). North Island Downs, 361 b and under, 7|d (7|d); 371 b to 421 b. 7£d (7Jd); 431 b to 501 b, (7£d) : second quality, average about 301 b, 7gd (7|d). North Island, first quality. 361 b and under. 7Jd (7£d); 37 lb to 421 b, 7§d (7|d): second quality, average about 311 b, 7d (7d). Australian lamb;. —Victorian, first quality, 291 b to 361 b, 7-id (7d); 371 b to 421 b, 7d (6|d). . ' Argentine lambs.—First quality, 361 b and under, 6Jd (63d): 371 b to 421 b. 6£d <6Jd). New Zealand frozen beef.—Ox hinds. 145 lb to 2101 b. 4/,d (4Jd); ox fore*, 1451 bto 2101 b, 3£d (3£d). Australian frozen beef. —Ox hind?. 145 lb to 2101 b. 4id (4id); ox crops. 3|d (3Jd). New Zealand porker pigs.—First: quality. 611 b lo 801 b. 7d (7d): 811 b to 1001 b, 7d (7rll : 1011 b to 1201 h,'7d (7cl). Now Zealand baconcr pigs.—l2llb to 1601 b.. 7d (7d). New Zealand chilled beef. —Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b., 6|d (6|d); ox fores, 1451 b lo 2101 b. 3|d (3^l). Australian chilled beef—Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b. 6d (6gd): ox crops, weights' COTr responding, 3Jd.(3id). Union of South Africa chilled beef. —Ox binds, 1451 b fo:'2H)llv.,6id (62d); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b. 3gd (3d). Southern Rhcdosian chilled beef,—Ox hinds 1451 blo 2101 b . s?d (5Jd); ex fores, 1451 b to 2101 b. 3d (2Jd). Argentine chilled beef.—Ox funds, 1451 b to 2101b.'7d (7id); ox foros, 1451 b to 2101 b, 31-.1 (3|d). .-."•!•■ Uruguayan chilled beef.—Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b. (6id) ; ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3grl (3id). Brazilian chilled beef.—Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 6gd (6|d). MARKET STEADY. Levin and Co.. Ltd.. have received the following cable from their London agents, dated. August 19:—Frozen meat quotations arc unaltered. The market is steady.