EXPORT OF LAMB.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 272, 16 November 1936, Page 4

EXPORT OF LAMB.

) I BUYERS' LOWER SCHEDULE. 3 _____ J Local agents of London meat importing 5 firms have this week lowered their buying 3 schedule for lambs to SV.id a lb on hooks •* for prime quality, as compared with B%d j last week, and 9%d before that, the * opening juice for the season. 3 In spite of a good lambing season, Inter > changeable conditions, with spells of rain > and several cokl snaps have prevented the } lambs from putting on condition very quickly. Numbers killed for export are j several thousand head lower than at this j time last year, in the case of each of j the leading exporting .firms. ) The buying schedule for pigs for export has also gone down this week, as buying > for the Christmas trade is over. Porkers I are down %d a lb, and baconcrs V2II. ? Schedule prices for lambs and pigs on ) hooks at freezing works in the Auckland Province are as follows: — 0 Lambs. —Up to 361b, B'/4d; 371b to 421b, 6 7%d; over 421b and seconds, 7%d. ® Pigs.—-Up to 801b, oVsd; 811b to 1001b, 3 1011b to 1201b, s'/id; 1211b to 1601b, oMsd; 1611b to 1801b, 4%d; 1811b to 2001b, 3 3d; over 2001b, 2d; choppers, exportable, 2d; unexport£ble, Id; second grade, J M less all grades; unexportable porkers and ) baconers, Id less all grades. High Prices For Beef. ' 3 , There has been little buying of beef for ? export so far this season owing to the \ keen local demand, which has kept prices * at Wtstfield up to 36/ per 1001b for some months past, the highest figure for six years, and easily twice what was paid at > the bottom of the slump. Farmers will * not sell their cattle in the paddock to , export buyers at a much lower figure than > the West'field price, and at recent rates, r it is stated, there has been no profit on chilled beef sent to London. Shipments have been sent only to keep up the connection. When fine weather comes to stay, Jiow- , ever, it is expected that ample supplies > I of lambs and cattle will soon be fattened, I and that the season, though late, will 5 be a good one.