FROZEN MEAT TRADE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 December 1938, Page 3

FROZEN MEAT TRADE

LONDON QUOTATIONS. GOOD INQUIRY FOR WETHERS. Lamb market; Little interest is being taken in remaining small stocks of old season’s in view of substantial arrivals of new season’s Australian and South American. Mutton market: Wethers meeting with better inquiry, with lightweights shade firmer. Ewes still selling slowly. Beef market: Frozen beef, good demand at unchanged prices. Chilled beef meeting with good demand; hindquarters weaker, fores firmer. New Zealand porker pigs firmer in anticipation of Christmas demand. New Zealand baconer pigs: Nominal. Spot stocks light. Boneless bobby veal: Trade slow. The above report was received yesterday by the Meat Board from its London office, 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. Prices for the previous week are shown in parentheses: — New Zealand sheep: Crossbred wethers and/or maiden ewes, 481 b and under, 4 7-8 d (43 d); 491 b. to 561 b., 4-}d (4|d); 571 b to 641 b„ 4|d (4£d); 651 b. to 721 b., 4|d (4{d). Ewes, 481 b and under, 3d (3d);491b. to 561 b„ 2»d (2gd); 571 b. to 641 b., 25-8 d (2Jd); 651 b. to 721 b„ 23-8 d (2 3-Bd.). New Zealand lambs: Canterbury, not quoted; ditto, second quality, average about 311 b., 6 5-8 d (6 5-8 d). Other South Island, 361 b and under, not quoted; 371 b to 421 b., 73d (7§d); 431 b. to 501 b, not quoted. North Island Downs, not quoted. North Island, second quality, average about 311 b., not quoted (6Jd). Australian Lambs: Victorian, first quality, 73d (not quoted); 371 b. to 421 b., 73d (not quoted). Argentine Lambs: First quality, 361 b. and under, 7d (7d); 371 b to 421 b, 63d (6Jd). New Zealand frozen beef: Second quality, ox hinds, 1451 b. to 2101 b, 4 l-8d (4 l-8d); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3 3-8 d (3 3-8 d). Australian frozen beef: Second quality ox hinds, 4jd (43d); ox crops, 3 3-8 d (3 3-8 d). New Zealand porker pigs: First quality, 611 b to 801 b, 7Jd (7 3-8 d); 811 b. to 1001 b, 7 l-8d (7d); 1011 b to 1201 b„ 6 5-8 d (6 5-8 d). New Zealand baconer pigs: 1211 b. to 1601 b., 5 7-8 d (6d). Boneless bobby veal (new season’s), ex store in parcels: 4|d (4jd). New Zealand chilled beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b, to 2101 b, 5 7-8 d (5 7-8 d); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3 5-8 d (3Jd). Australian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 5 5-8 d (53d); ox crops, 3 5-8 d (3 5-8 d). South African chilled beef: Ox hinds, 6 l-8d (6 l-8d); ox fores, 33d (33d). Southern Rhodesian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 5 7-8 d (6d); ox fores 3 3-8 d (3 3-8 d). Argentine chilled beef: Ox hinds, 6Jd (G 5-8 d); ox- tores, 4jd ( 4 l-8d). Uruguayan chilled beef: Ox hinds, 6 l-8d (6 3-8 d); ox fores, 4d (4d). Levin and Co., Limited, have received the following cable from their Lon--1 don agents dated December 1: Frozen I meat quotations are unaltered. The market is steady.