FROZEN MEAT TRADE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1939, Page 5

FROZEN MEAT TRADE

LONDON QUOTATIONS LAMB MARKET EASIER. WETHER PRICES FIRM. Lamb market: With heavy landings and prospective increasing supplies home-killed, tendency market slightly easier. Mutton market: Wethers firm, ! with fair trade. Ewes quiet, prices shew little change. Beef market: I Frozen beef firm, with good demand. Chilled beef easier this week on the heavy supplies and owing to muggy weather. New Zealand porker pigs: Firm on the short spot stocks. New Zealand baconer pigs: Nominal. Boneless bobby veal: Quiet, with prices unchanged. 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, 5d (sd); 491 b to 561 b, 4 5-8 d (4 5-8 d); 571 b to 641 b, 4 3-8 d (4 3-8 d); 651 b ta 721 b, 3 7-8 d (3 7-8 d). Ewes, 481 b and under, 3jd (33d); 491 b to 561 b, 31 cl (3 3-8 d); 571 b to 641 b, 3d (3d); 651 b to 721 b, 2’d (2.3 d New Zealand lambs: Canterbury, 361 b and under, 71d (7Ad); 371 b to 421 b, 6Jd (G 7-8 d); 431 b to 501 b, 6 3-8 d (6 3-8 o); second quality, average about 31 lb, G’d (6 7-8 d). Other South Island, 361 b and under, 7£d (7£d); 371 b to 421 b, 63d (6 7-8 d); 431 b to 501 b, 6 3-8 d (6 3-8 d). North Island Downs, 361 b and under, 7 5-8 d (7 5-8 d); 371 b to 421 b, 6 7-8 d (6 7-8 d); 431 b to 501 b, 6 3-8 d (6 3-8 d); second quality average about 301 b, 7}d (7 3-8 d); North Island, first quality, 361 b and under, 7 3-8 d (7 3-8 d); 371 b to 421 b, 63d (6’d); second quality, average about 311 b, 6Jd (6§d). Australian lambs; Victorian, first quality, 291 b to 361 b, 6 5-8 d (6 5-8 d); 371 b to 421 b, 6Jd (6Jd). Argentine lambs: First quality, not quoted. New Zealand frozen beef: Second quality, ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 4d (4d); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3'jd (3£d). Australian frozen beef; Second quality, ox hinds, 4 J-8d (4 l-8d); ox chops, 3.3 d (33d). New Zealand porker pigs; First quality. 61 lb to 801 b, 7d (7<j); 81 lb to 1001 b, 7d (7d); 101 lb to 1201 b, 6.3 d (63d). New Zealand baconer pigs: 121 lb to 1601 b, 6 5-8 d (6 5-8 d). Boneless bobby veal: Ex store, in parcels, s£d (s£d). 1 New Zealand chilled beef: Ox hinds, 1 1451 b to 2101 b, 5Jd (5 5-8 d); ox fores. 3d (3 3-8 d). < Australian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 5 1 l-8d (5 5-8 d); ox crops, 3]d (3.3 d 1

South African chilled beef: Ox hinds, 5 5-8 d (5 7-8 d); ox fores, 3 l-8d (3 7-8 d). Southern Rhodesian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 5 l-8d (4 7-8 d); ox fores. 2;;d (31d). Argentine chilled beef: Ox hinds, 6 3-8 d (61d); ox fores, 3£d (4d). Aruguayan chilled beef: Ox hinds, 5 5-8 d (6d); ox fores, 3.id (3 7-8 d). Brazilian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 51 (5 7-8 d). Messrs Levin & Co., Ltd., have received the following cable from their London agents, dated August 3:— “Frozen meat quotations are unaltered. The market is quiet all round.”