MEAT HANDLING COST

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1063, 29 August 1930, Page 11

MEAT HANDLING COST

AUSTRALIAN MUTTON SYDNEY, Thursday. | Mr. F. H. Tout, president of the Association, says the cost of handling mutton for export between fke producer and the London market kas risen 66 per cent, since 1914. The charges 16 years ago for droving, rail‘l®e> killing, freezing, freight and insurance totalled Cs 3Ad a head. Today uio charges total 10s 3d a head. As the meat must be sold in the markets. chiefly the British, v ’nich is down to pre-war levels, the °sts of production must be reduced. PUKEKOHE STOCK SATE From Our Own Correspondent PUKEKOHE, Thursday. Both plijs and dairy cattle sold faddy at the sale of Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd., held here today. , , airy Cattle.—Best cows made £l2 to Cl 4; others, CIO 10s to £l2; backward sorts, c 7 to £9 10s. ..,, eef - —Prime fat cows and heifers. ,- ;l ITs 'id to Cl 1: less forward, £8 * *10; UKht. C 6 to £7 17s 6d; fat •tears, CJI 17s Gd to £l3. ‘-tines.—Hulls, £9 10s to £ll 12s ''tk.eciws, c:s to co 10s. r.,. ‘ Ka -— I Choppers, £3 5s to £5 12s ,vi‘ n< avy baeoners, £3 10s to £3 13s; ,;’ lu and medium, £2 18s to £3 0s; 'teavy porkers. £2 12s to £2 10s; lisht ' n, l medium, C2 7s to £2 12s; small ■ "d unfinished, ,c 1 18s to £2 3s; best til 17s to £2 4s; Rood slips, JOs to £l. 14s; weaners, £ 1 5s to -small, 19s to £1 2s; weedy. Its . lcs - Sows due to farrow for the time sold from 7yns to Signs.