BUYING FOR EXPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 296, 14 December 1936, Page 4

BUYING FOR EXPORT.

PORK SCHEDULE RAISED. There is a keen demand for pork and bacon for export at present, and the buying schedule is to be raised %d a ib for both- lightweight grades of pigs this week. Killing.as proceeding steadily, and is'expected to.Aincrease in January. The New Zealand Co-operative Pig Marketing Association advises an advance of Vid ■ a lb on baeoners as from Monday, December ;2, to be retrospective on 5 all killings after December 1. Increased supplies are wanted urgently by the association's bacon factories in Isew Zealand and the United Kingdom. Lambs Unchanged. The buying schedule for lambs for the Auckland Province is unchanged. The fine weather Has brought on more lambs,, and killings are increasing. The flush will come in January. Schedule prices for lambs and pigs on hooks at freezing works at Southdown for next week's killings are as follows:— Lambs.—Up to 361b, B%d; 371b to 421b, 8d; over 421b, 7%d; seconds, 7%d. Pigs.—Up to 801b, 6d; 811b to 1001b, 5%d; 1011b to 1201b, 5V 2 d; 1211b to 1601b, 5%d; 1611b to 1801b, 4%d: 1811b to 2001b, 2%d; over 2001b, 2d; choppers, exportable, 2%d; porkers, unexportable. Id less: baeoners, unexportable, over 1201b, %d less; choppers, unexportable, Id per lb.