OVERSEAS MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 42, 20 February 1933, Page 4

OVERSEAS MARKETS.

FROZEN MEAT. PRICES AT SMITHFIELD. Tbe New Zealand Meat Producers' Board has received the following cable from its London office, dated February 17, advising that the following are the approximate average prices realised for the week, based on actual transactions of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of meat mentioned, and are for representative parcels "of the goods offering during the week, being for business done on the basis of delivered to Smithfield market and/or ex London stores: — Sheep.—Canterbury and North Island selected crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, 48/sGlb, 4%d per lb; 57/641b, 4%d; 05/721b, 4'/id; North Island, 4S/561b. 4%d. 57/641b. 4%d; 65/721b, 4%d: ewes. 481b and under. 3%d: 48/641b. 3d; 65/721b, 2%d. Lambs. —Canterbury, second quality, average 301b, 4%d; selected North Island brands, including Downs, 361b and under. 5%d; 37/421b, sVtc\: 43/501b, 4%d; second quality, average 301b, sVid; other North Island brands, first quality, 361b and under, 5%d; 37/421b, sd; second quality, average 301b, sd. Australian Lambs. —Victorian, first quality, 361b and under, 4%d; 37/421b, 4-Vid. Argentine Lamb.—First quality, 361b and under, sd; 37/421b, 4%d. New Zealand Beef.—Ox, fores 3", hinds „ , Argentine Chilled Beef.—Ox, fores, «5/»d; hinds s'Ad. Australian Frozen Beef.—Ox crops, over 1001b, 3%d; ox hinds, over 1601b. 3%d. New Zealand Porker Pigs.—Go/801b, 5%d; 81/100lb, 5%d: 101/1201b, 4 7 /sd. Baconers: 120/1601b. 4 ] /2d. Lamb market: Prices easier, owing to larger quantities afloat from all sources, but lower prices are definitely increasing demand, and tone of market shows slight improvement during the past few days. Mutton: Wethers weaker for heavyweight. Market maintaining position owing to small spot stocks. Ewes: Trade slow, with prices slightly easier. New Zeal'ind Beef: Meeting with fair trade. New Zealand porker nigs: Lightweight steady, but prices easier for other weights. Baconers: Nominal. COTTON, RUBBER, JUTE, ETC. LONDON, February 18. (Quotations on Feb. 10 in parentheses.) Cotton—Spot, 4.95 d (5.09 d) a lb; March delivery, 4.75 d (4.81 d). , Rublier.—Para, 4%d (4Vid) a lb; plantation and smoked, 2 l-16d (2%d). Jute.—February-March shipments, £14 10/ (£l4 7/6) a ton. xl Copra.—March-April shipments. South Sea, £12 2/6 (£l2 2/6), February-March), a ton; plantation and Rabaul, £12 5/ (£l2 Oil. — £16 5/ (£l6 10/) a ton. Turpentine.—64/3 (64/9) a cwt.