FROZEN MEAT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1939, Page 3

FROZEN MEAT

PRICES AT SMITHFIELD. VALUES SLIGHTLY LOWER. Lamb market: Again shade easier, but lower prices stimulating consumption. Mutton market: Wethers and ewes, trade slow with prices heavyweights lower. Beef market: Frozen beef, demand quiet: prices inclined to weaken. Chilled beef, demand slow owing to Lent, with heavy supplies. New Zealand porker pigs: Lightweights easier; niediumweights firmer. Demand quiet. New Zealand baconer pigs: Market quiet and unchanged. The above report was received 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 ews, 481 b and under. 4 5-8 d ( 4 5-8 d); 491 b to 561 b, 3Jd (3"d); 571 b to 641 b, 3Jd (3*d); 651 b to 721 b, 3 3-8 d (31d); ewes. 481 b and under, 3.? d (27-8 d 491 b to 561 b, 2 3-8 d (23-8 d 571 b to 641 b, 21, d (2Jd); 651 b to 721 b, 2 l-8d (2.|d). New Zealand lambs, Canterbury, 361 b and under, 7,'d (7Jd); 371 b to 421 b, 7 l-8d (7.1 d 431 b to 501 b, 6 7-8 d (7d); second quality, average about 31 lb 7d (7d); other South Island, 361 b and under (not quoted); 371 b to 421 b (not quoted); 431 b to 501 b (not quoted); North Island Downs, 361 b and under, 7 l-8d (7’d); 371 b to 421 b, 7d‘ (7.;d); 431 b to 501 b, 6 7-8 d (7d); second quality, average about 351 b, 7d (7d); North Island, first quality, 361 b and under, 7d (7d); 371 b to 421 b, 7d <7d); second quality, average about 311 b, 6 7-8 d (7d). Australian lambs: Victorian, first quality, 291 b to 361 b, 6] (6 3-8 d); 371 b to 421 b, 6 l-8d (6.1 d).

Argentine lambs: First quality, 361 b and under, 6d (6d); 371 b to 421 b, s“d (s.]d). *N.Z. frozen beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 4d (4d); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b 3d (3d).

"Australian frozen beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 4d (4 l-8d); ox crops, weights corresponding, 3d (3d). N.Z. porker pigs: First quality, 61 lb to 801 b, 73d (7 3-8 d); 811 b, to 1001 b, 6 5-8 d (63); 1011 b to 1201 b, 6Jd (63d). N.Z. baconer pigs: 121 lb to 1601 b, 6’d (63d). Boneless bobby veal: Ex store in parcels, 4 l-8d (4 l-8d). N.Z. chilled beef: Ox hinds. 1451 b to 2101 b, 5d (sd); ox fores, 1451 b to 210 lb, 3 3-8 d (33d). Australian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145 lb to 2101 b, 4 7-8 d (4§d); ox crops, weights corresponding, 33d (3 3-8 d). Union of South. Africa chilled beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 53d (53d); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 33 d (33 d). Southern Rhodesian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 4d (43d); ox fores 1451 b to 2101 b, 3d (23d). Argentine chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145 lb to 2101 b, 6d (6d); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 4d (33d). Uruguayan chilled beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 5 3-8 d (53d); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101b' 3 5-8 d (3 3-8 d). Brazilian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145 lb to 2101 b, 5 l-8d (5 3-8(1). *New Zealand and Australian frozen beef quotations second quality.