MEAT PRODUCERS’ BOARD.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1922, Page 5

MEAT PRODUCERS’ BOARD.

STOCK FOR EXPORT. WEEKLY PRICES LIST. The New Zealand Meat Producers' Board quotes the following prices for fat stock offered during the week ended December 14: — Auckland.—Wethers 66 lb and under s£d, 65 and 72 lb sd, 73 lb and over 4/<l. second quality wethers 44d. Ewes 64 lb and under 4|d, '<ls and 72 lb 4d, 73 lb and over 3y z d, second quality ewes 3%d. Prime woolly lambs, 42 lb and nuder 9d, 43 lb and over 3%d, second quality Bfd. Prime ox. beef 20s per 100 lb, second quality ox beef 15s per 100 lb, cow beef 15s per 100 lb. Poverty Bay.—lVethers 64 lb and under sid, 65 ib and over 4Jd, second quality wethers 4|d. ewes 64 lb and under 4 l-Bd, 65 lb and over 3 o-Sd. Prime woolly lambs 42 lb and unde/ 9d, 43 lb and over Sid, second quality Sid. Prime ox beef 20s per 100 lb, second quality 15s per 1001'b cow beef 15s per 100 lb, cow beef 15a per 100 lb, second quality cow beef 12/6 per 100 lb. Hawke’s Bay.—Wethers 64 lbs and under 5Jd, 651bs and over 54d, second quality wethers ojd. ewes 64 lbs and under 4id, 65 lbs and over 4d. Prime woolly lambs 42 lbs and under 10d, 43 lbs and over Old, second quality lambs Old. Prime ox beef 20s per 100 lb, second quality ox beef 17/6 per 100 lb, cow beef 15s per 100 lb. second quality cow beef 12/6 per 100 lb. Wanganui.—Wetllers 56 lbs and under s|d, 51" lb to 64 lb 54d, 65 lb to 72 lb 5Jd, 73 lbs and over sd, second quality sd. Ewes, all weights. 4J. Prime woolly lambs 42 lb and under, 'od; prime ox beef 20s per 100 lb, cow oeef 15s per 100 Christchurch. ——Wethers 64 lb and under s|d, 65 to 72 lbs 5Jd, 73 lb and over 4Jd, second quality s}d, ewes 64 lb and under 4Ad, 65 to 72 lb 4d, 73 lb and over 3Jd, second quality 4d. Prime woolly lambs 42 lb and under 9Jd, 43 lb and over 9d, second quality 9d. The difference in the return to the grower between kidneys left in lambs and kidneys taken out is equal to M to 3-8 d per lb. That is, the grower is getting lOd per lb with the kidneys left in, and is getting equal to 10}d to 10 3-Sd with the kidneys taken nut. Regarding the board’s regulation governing the minimum size of parcels of sheep or lambs which may be shipped aboard, the board particularly desires all farmers who wish to ship on their own account to pool all the small consDnmente. There are pools in operation aiTall the works, but, ■should any farmera have any difficulty in this respect, the board desires they should at once communicate with the board.