LAMBS STILL EASIER
SMITHFIELD REPORT MARKET IMPROVING (By Telegraph.— Press Association) WELLINGTON, Friday The New Zealand Meat Producers Board’s report on the Smithfield market, covering the period ended February 23, states that larnb prices were again a shade easier, hut the demand was improving at the lower prices. Wether arid ewe light-weight prices were unchanged arid Die others were lower. The trade remains slow. Chilled beef prices were lower this week on a slow trade and owing to heavier supplies New Zealand porker pigs v.ere quiet and prices were unchanged. New Zealand baconer pigs were quiet and unchanged. Quotations arc: New Zealand sheep, crossbred wethers and/or maiden ewes, 571 b to 641 b. 3Ad: 6-5 to 721 b, 3Jd: ewes. 491 b to 561 b, 2£d 571 bto 6-4 lb, 2id. New Zealand Jambs, Canterbury, 361 b and under, 7jd, 371 b to 421 b, 7*d; 431 b to 501 b, 7d; second, quality, average about 3Ub 7d: other South Is land unquoted. North Island. Downs, 36ib and under. 7*rt; second quality, average about 301 b, 7d; North Island, first quality, 361 b and under, 7d; Australian, Victorian, Orst quality, 371 b to 421 b, 6*d.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19390225.2.134
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20740, 25 February 1939, Page 13
Word count
Tapeke kupu
196LAMBS STILL EASIER Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20740, 25 February 1939, Page 13
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Waikato Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in