FROZEN MEAT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 April 1939, Page 4

FROZEN MEAT

LONDON QUOTATIONS LAMB PRICES AGAIN EASIER. CHILLED BEEF FIRMER. Lamb market: Prices again easier. Consumption good, but low prices of other meat are affecting lamb prices. Mutton market: Wethers easier owing w more plentiful supplies. Ewes steady with slow trade. Beef market: Frozen beef neglected. Chilled beef slightly firmer this week, but supplies still heavy. New Zealand porker pigs: easier on the slow trade. New Zealand baconer pigs: Market quiet and unchanged. Boneless veal: Steady, with firmer tendency. 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, 4ld (4 5-8 d); 491 b to 561 b, 3 7-8 d (4d); 571 b to 641 b, 31d (3 5-8 d); 651 b to 721 b, 3jd (3jd). Ewes, 481 b and under, 3 3-8 d (3 3-8 d); 491 b to 561 b, 3d (3d); 571 b to 641 b, 23d (23d); 651 b to 721 b, 2Jd (2’d). New Zealand lambs: Canterbury, 361 b and under, 6.3 d (6 7-8 d); 371 b to 421 b, 6.|d (6 3-8 d); 431 b to 501 b, 6 l-8d (6jd). Second quality, average about 31 lb, 61d (6id). Other South Island, 361 b and under, 63d (6 7-8 d); 371 b to 421 b, 6‘,d (6 3-8 d); 431 b to 501 b. 6 l-8d (6jd). North Island Downs, 361 b and under, 63d (6 7-8 d); 371 b to 421 b, 6jd (6 3-8 d); 431 b to 501 b, 6 l-8d (6jd). Second quality, average about 301 b, 63d (6 7-8 d). North Island, first quality, 361 b and under, 63d (63d); 371 b to 421 b, 6jd (6}d). Second quality, average, about 311 b, 6£d (61d). Australian lambs: Victorian, first quality, 291 b to 361 b, 6d (6d); 371 b to 421 b, 5 5-8 d (5 5-8 d). Argentine lambs: First quality, 361 b and under, 53d (53d); 371 b to 421 b, 5 3-8 d (5Jd). New Zealand frozen beef: Second quality, ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3 7-8 d (3 7-8 d); ox lores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 23d (23d). Australian frozen beef: Second quality, ox hinds, 3 7-8 d (3 7-8 d); ox crops 3d (3d). New Zealand porker pigs: First quality, 61 lb to 801 b, 6 5-8 d (63d); 81 lb to 1001 b, 6 3-8 d (6Jd); 1011 b to 1201 b, 6 3-8 d (6Jd). New Zealand baconer pigs: 121 lb to 1601b', 6d (6d). Boneless bobby veal, ex store, in parcels, 4 3-8 d (4 3-8 d). ' New Zealand chilled beef: Ox hinds. 1451 b to 2101 b, 4jd (4 7-8 d); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 23d (25-8 d Australian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 4d (3 7-8 d); ox crops, 23d (25-8 d South African chilled beef: Ox hinds, 4 7-8 d (4 7-8 d); ox fores, 3d (3d). Southern Rhodesian chilled beef: Not quoted. Argentine chilled beef: Ox hinds, 5 5-8 d (5 5-8 d); ox fores, 3 3-8 d (3 3-8 d). Uruguayan chilled beef: Ox hinds, 43d (43d); ox tores, 3 l-8d (3d). Brazilian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 4 3-8 d (4jd).

Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd., have received the following cable from their London agents, dated April 27: — Frozen meat quotations (prices on a delivered basis, i.e., including storage, charges, cartage, market tolls, etc.): — North Island Down lambs, 28/361bs. 6 7-8 d; 36/42, 6jd. Best North Island xbd lambs, 28/361bs, 63d; 36/42, 6jd. North Island 2nd quality lambs, av. 30/311bs, 6|d. Best North Island wether sheep, under 481 b, 4id; 48/56, 3 7-8 d; 56/64, 3Jd; 64/72, 3.1 d. North Island ewes, under 481bs, 3 3-8 d; 48/56’s 3d; 56/64’s 2»d; 64/72’s 2|d. N.Z. prime ox beef, 160/2201b5, none offering. Compared with last week’s quotations, Down lamb, 36/421bs, is l-8d per lb lower, wethers u/641bs l-8d per lb lower, with others unchanged. The market on the spot is weaker and the general position continues to be unsatisfactory.