FROZEN MEAT IN LONDON

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 195, 7 November 1927, Page 12

FROZEN MEAT IN LONDON

OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS In cabling under date November 4. the London office of the New Zealand Meat Pioducers Board advised Southfield deliverer! prices for frozen meat as folNew Zealand wethers and maidens Canterbury quality, selected brands, 56 and under, 6Jd: 57 to 64, 6jd: 65 to 72 sjd; other brands, 56 and under, 51d: 57 to 64. sgd; 65 to 72, sid. New Zealand ewes, 64 and under, 4ld a lb. New Zealand lambs, Canterbury aualitv oS and under, 9Jd a lb; 37 to 42, 9Jd- 43 to i)0, SJd: seconds, 9d; selected brands Ob and under 9jd; 37 to 42, 9Jd; other biarids, first quality, 36 and under, 91d ■ C. 7to 42, 9Jd; second quality, 30 to 32 average, Slid* Argentine lambs, first quality 36 anri under, Ssd a lb; 37 to 42, 8d d New Zealand beef, ox fores, 3|d a lhhinds, s|d. ’ Al 'gentine chi Hed beef, ox fores, 33d a lb; hinds, sgd. Argentine frozen beef, ox fores 33d a lb; hinds, 5Jd. ’ lCt a i S ß , ifcr b to i2oib - sd -*= Lamb.—The market is rather slow and there is a weaker tendency owing to heavy pitchings of Home-killed. Mutton.—Wethers, market remains steady; ewes, demand remains dull. Frozen Pork.—Nominal quotations- The market is overstocked with Home-killed

Shipments of meat from South America —The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has received a cable from its representative, Buenos Ayres, South America, advising the following shipments to the United Kingdom for the fortnight ended October 27. 1927, from Argentine and Uruguay;—342,9oo quarters bf chilled beef; 8,727 quarters of frozen beef: 129,350 carcases of frozen mutton; 119.650 carcases of frozen lamb. The quantity shipped to the Continent of Europe during the same period was as f0110w5:—159,150 quarters of frozen beef; 12,250 carcases of frozen mutton; 770 carcases of frozen lamb.