FROZEN MEAT TRADE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1939, Page 3

FROZEN MEAT TRADE

LONDON QUOTATIONS LAMB MARKET VERY FIRM. MUTTON PRICES STEADY. Lamb market: Continues very firm, with consumption good. Prices generally are higher. Mutton market: Wethers and ewes, fair trade, with prices steady. Beef market: Frozen beef meeting with fair trade; chilled beef, hindquarters steady, fores shade easier on the warm weather. New Zealand porker pigs: Market firm, but trade slow. New Zealand baconer pigs: Shade firmer, owing to higher prices Continental bacon. Boneless bobby veal: Trade slow, but prices firm owing to shortage of supplies. The above report was received yesterday by the Meat Board from its

London ornce, wmcn aavises rnai, me 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, July 6. Chilled beef prices are averages of the week, on which this list is issued. 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 <4 7-8 d); 491 b to 561 b, 4Jd (4 3-8 d); 571 b to 641 b, 4d (4d); 651 b to 721 b, 3 5-8 d (3 5-8 d). Ewes, 481 b and under, 3.3 d (33d); 491 b to 561 b, 3 3-8 d (3.|d); 571 b to 641 b, 3d (3d); 651 b to 72 lb, 2;jd (23d). New Zealand lambs: Canterbury, 361 b and under, 7 3-8 d (7.}d); 371 b to 421 b, 6 7-8 d (6.3 d 431 b to 501 b. 6 3-8 d (6 3-8 d); second quality, average about 311 b, 7d (6 7-8 d). Other South Island, 361 b and under, 71 d (7 3-8 d); 371 b to 421 b, 6 7-8 d (6jd); 431 b to 501 b, 6 3-8 d (6 3-8 d). North Island Downs, 361 b and under, 7 5-8 d (71d); 371 b to 421 b, 6 7-8 d (6.3 d 431 b to 501 b, 6 3-8 d (6 3-8 d); second quality, average about 301 b, 7 3-8 d North Island, first quality, 361 b and under, 7 3-8 d (73 d); 371 b to 421 b, 6|d (63d); second quality, average about 311 b, 7d (6 7-8 d). Australian lambs: Victorian, first quality, 291 b to 361 b, 6 5-8 d (6Jd); 371 b to 421 b, 6,1 d (6 l-8d). Argentine lambs: First quality, 36 lb and under, 6 3-8 d (6 3-8 d); 371 b to 421 b, 5,?d (5 5-8 d). N.Z. frozen beef: Second quality, ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3 l-8d (3 l-8d); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 2.3 d (23d). Australian frozen beef: Second quality, ox hinds, 3 7-8 d (3 7-8 d); ox crops, 3 3-8 d (3]d). N.Z. porker pigs: First quality, 61 lb to 801 b, 6 7-8 d (6 7-8 d); 811 b to 100 lb, 6 7-8 d (6 7-8 d); 1011 b to 1201 b, 6 5-8 d (6£d).

N.Z. baconer pigs: 1211 b to 1601 b, 64d (6.}d). Boneless bobby veal: Ex store in parcels, 5 3-8 d (5 3-8 d). N.Z. chilled beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 5d (sd); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 27-8 d (3d). Australian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 4Jd (4 5-8 d); ox crops, 3]d (3 l-8d). South Africa chilled beef: Ox hinds, s£d (5 3-8 d); ox fores. 3’,d (33d). Southern Rhodesian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 4 5-8 d (43d); ox fores, 23d (23d). Argentine chilled beef: Ox hinds, 6.jd (63d); ox fores, 31d (3 5-8 d). Uruguayan chilled beef: Ox hinds, 53d (51d); ox fores. 3]d (3.1 d Brazilian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 5d (5 l-8d).

Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd., have received the following cable from their | London agents, dated July 6: —Frozen meat quotations (prices on a “delivered” basis, i.e., including storage charges, cartage, market tolls, etc.): — North Island Down lambs, 28/361b5., 7gd, 36/421b5., 6-Jd; best North Island xbd. lambs, 28/361bs„ 7gd, 36/421b5., 63d; North Island 2nd quality lambs, av. 30/311bs„ 7d; best North Island wether sheep, under 481bs„ 4Jd, 48/56 lbs., 4Jd, 56/641bs„ 4d, 64/721b5., 3id; North Island ewes, under 481b5., 33d, 48'56's, 3gd, 56/64’s, 3d, 64/72’s, 33d; N.Z. prime ox beef, 160/220, none offering. Compared with last week’s quotations, all grades of lamb were id per lb. higher, wethers 48/641bs. Jd per lb. higher; others unchanged. The market is firm.