MEAT EXPORT TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 301, 20 December 1937, Page 4

MEAT EXPORT TRADE.

FIRM LONDON MARKET. BETTER SALE FOR PORK. NEW ZEALAND LAMB 9',iD A LB. The lamb market is very firm, with spot stocks still short, old season's being exhausted. Small quantity of new season's lamb landed by the Hertford is selling at 9'/id a lb off the hooks. Wethers and ewes are firmer, owing to smaller prospective supplies. In the beef market frozen is steady at unchanged prices, chilled hindquarters are a shade firmer and chilled lores unchanged, l'orker pigs are firmer on the better consumption, and baconers a shade firmer with stocks light. file New Zealand .nt-nt Producers' Board advises that the following are the ruling prices of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of frozen meat mentioned, and ari' lor representative parcels of the goods sold on 1 hursday, December lli. ('Milled beet prices are averages of the week on which this list is issued. All prices are on the basis of delivered to Sniithtield market: — Sheep.-- New Zealand crossbred wethers and or maiden ewes. 481b and under, 6d per lb; 4!l /.(ilh. ,V 4 d: ,"i7 64!h. fid; <m 721b. -l 2^ c ' • ewes, 481b and under, 4%d; 40, sblb, 3%d; 57 <>4lb, 3%d; t>,V72Hi. 3 l isd. J.anib. Australian: Victorian, first quality, 2!) 301b. 8d; 37.4211). 7 7 r(1. Argentine: first quality, 301b and under, T'/id: 37 4211), 7lid. l'lo/en .Heel'.--New Zealand: Ox hinds, 14.)-21011). 4Vr(l: ox fores. !4">/2loll> ."''.id Australian: Ox hinds. 14.; 2101b, 4'id; lix crops, weights corresponding. 3*\d. New Zealand l'orker l'igs. First quality. 61 SOU), 7V=d: HI HMlll). 7'id: lo| 12011,. Wad. Baconers: 121 Kinlb. (iv'ad. Chilled Beef. New Zealand: Ox hinds 14.1 21011). fi'j.l: ox fores. 145 2101b. 3?i,l Australian: Ox hinds. 14.7 21(Hb, .Vjd; ox crops, w eight col responding. 39id. Sonthein 1J q: Ox hinds. 14") 2101b. ;. : '- s d; ox lores. 14.) 21011), .'J'.ad. Argentine: Ox liind:-. 14.7 21011). OVsd : ox tons. I 1.7 2lolb. 4<i. I'riiguayan: Ox hinds, 14") 2101b, •' ox fores, 14.7 -211111). 3"•S?d.