AFFECTING MEAT TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 12

AFFECTING MEAT TRADE

The extremely hot weather being' experienced in'.England is affecting the meat trade according to the weekly cabled re--port, dated June 22, received by the .New Zealand Meat Producers' Board. The.' lamb market is slightly easier for this reason and there is a lessening demand for meat of all descriptions. Wether mutton remains firm owing to a shortage of spot stocks and ewe mutton is quiet with prices unchanged. The demand for beef is slow owing to the low prices of Argentine chilled beef. The hot weather i6 also held responsible for the small demand for New Zealand porker pigs but the market for ■ baconers is steady and unchanged. The approximate average prices for representative parcels offered at the Smithfield market and from London stores are given below, with the quotations for last week in parentheses. New Zealand Sheep.—Canterbury and North Island selected crossbred wethers and maiden'ewes, 48/56 5%d per lb (5%d), 57/64 oVtd [sYid), 65/72 5d [i 7-8d); North Island selected crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, 4S/561b 5'5-8d (5 5-Sd), 57/64 5%d-:(5%d),--.65/72 5d (4 7-8d); ewes, 48/ under 4%d (4%d), 48/64 3 7-8d (3 7-8d), 85/72 3%d (3%d). New Zealand lambs: Canterbury, 36/under 7VSd (7%d), 37/42 7 l-8d (7 l-8d), 43/50 6%d (6 7-8d); second; quality, average 32, 7 3-8d (7V4d); other South Island brands, 36/under 7V4d (7%d), 37/42 7 l-8d (7 l-8d), 43/50 6%d (6 7-8d); selected North Island brands, including Downs, 36/under 7 5-8d (7%d), 37/42 7 1-Sd ("Yid), 43/50 6%d (6 7-8d); second quality, average 32, 7 3-8d (7%d); other North Island brands, first quality, 36/ under 7 3-8d (7^d), 37/42 7d (7d);. second quality, average 32 7%d (7 3-8d). Australian lambs: Victorian, first quality, 36/under 7 3-8d (7 3-8d). 37/42 6%d (6%d).- ' - Argentine lambs: 36/under 7%d (7Ud), 37/42 6%d (6%d).-.-

New Zealand beef: Ox, fores 2%d (2%d), hinds 3 3-8d (3 3-8d). : Argentine chilled beef: Ox, fores 3d (3 l-8d), hinds sd. (5%d). ' Australian frozen beef: Ox crops, over 100 2%d (2?4d); hinds, over 160 3%d (3V4d). -.'.'. New Zealand prime porker pigs: 60/80 6d- (6%d), 81/100 5%d (6d), 101/120 5%d (5 5-8d). . -"'■ •: ■ ':'. ■ New Zealand baconer pigs: 120/160 5 5-8d (5 5-8d). •■'-.• ■ .- : ■:. Lamb market: .- Slightly easier chiefly, owing to extremely hot weather lessening demand for meat of all descriptions. 'Mutton' market: Wethers firm owing to short spot stocks.1 Ewes quiet with prices unchanged.' .-'■•■• Beef market: Demand slow owing to-low prices of Argentine thilled beef. . ■New Zealand porker pigs: Small demand owing to hot weather. .< New Zealand baconer pigs: Market steady and unchanged.