FROZEN MEAT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1938, Page 3

FROZEN MEAT

LONDON QUOTATIONS

LAMB PRICES FIRM Lamb market: Prices remain very firm, with excellent output. Mutton market: Wethers, unchanged. Ewes, trade slow, with-tendency weaker. Beef market: Frozen beef, no quotations. Chilled beef, in spite of heavy supplies, prices remain steady. New Zealand porker pigs: Quiet meeting with usual seasonal decline in demand. New Zealand baconer pigs: Steady and unchanged. The above report was received yesterday by the Meat Board, which advises that the following are the ruling prices of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of frozen meat mentioned and are for representative parcels of the goods sold on Thursday. Chilled beef prices are averages of the week. All prices are on the basis of delivered to Smithfield market:—

New Zealand sheep: Crossbred wethers and/or maiden ewes, 481 b and under, 5 7-8 d; 491 b to 561 b, 5Jd; 571 b to 641 b, sd; 651 b to 721 b, 4 7-8 d; ewes, 481 b and under, 4d; 491 b to 56 lb, 3ld; 571 b to 641 b., 3|d; 651 b to 721 b., 31 d. New Zealand lambs: Canterbury, 361 b and under, 7Jd; 37 to 421 b, 7 5-8 d; 431 b to 501 b, 71d; second quality, average about 31 lb, 7Jd; other South Island, 3(>lb and under, 7|d; 371 b to 421 b, 7

5-8 d; 431 b to 501 b, 7’,d; North Island Downs, 361 b and under, 7 7-8 d; 371 b to 421 b, 7 5-8 d; 431 b to 501 b, 7}d; second quality, average about 301 b, 7 5-8 d; North Island, first quality, 361 b and under, 7 5-8 d; 371 b to 421 b, 7Jd; second quality, average about 31 lb, 7£d. Australian lambs: Victorian, first quality, 291 b to 361 b, 7 l-8d; 371 b to 421 b, 7d. Argentine lambs: First quality, 361 b and under, 7d; 371 b to 421 b, 6 -3-Bd. New Zealand porker pigs: First quality, 61 lb to 801 b, 7d; 81 lb to 1001 b, 7d; 1011 b to 1201 b, 7d. New Zealand baconer pigs: 121 lb to 1601 b, 7d. New Zealand chilled beef: Not quoted. Australian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 4|d; ox crops, 31d. Southern Rhodesian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 4jd; ox fores, 2 7-Bd. Argentine chilled beef: Ox hinds, 6d; ox fores, 3Jd.