PRICES ADVANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 208, 3 September 1938, Page 4

PRICES ADVANCE.

LAMB IN LONDON

BEEF SLIGHTLY FIRMER

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) 'W ELLIXGION, this day

The report of the Xew Zealand Meat Producers Board on the Smithfield market ior the week ended September 1 states that the lamb market continues very firm, and prices have further advanced. Consumption remains satisfactory 111 spite 0 f home-killed selling at the equivalent of our prices. Wethers and ewes are meeting with a better inquiry with lightweight wethers firmer. The chilled beef market is slightlj' firmer thi® week owing to good demand. New Zealand porker pigs are firm with improved prices for lightweights, and the New Zealand baconer market is quiet and unchanged Prices: New Zealand sheep ( ;'? ss " ret ' wethers and/or maiden ewet, under. s«d: lamb. Canterbury second quality, average about 311b. 7*4 d; other South Island, 3Glb under. 8d: 371b l .°i d: onll I-'land downs. 371b to ™li ♦ WT° x- 1 q , ualltv - average about q-m 3 !° ; Is,and first nualitv, <3/lb to 4_lb. i *'sd: second qualitv averabout 311b. 7%d. riu e Z Z oAVi aud P° rkel " Pis®, first qualitv. 611b to 801b, 6-Ad. Chilled beef, prices (approximate average for week: Xew Zealand ox hinds, 5%d; fores, 3%d; Australian hinds, o'-jd; crops. 3%d Union of South Africa Tores, 3Vad; Southern Rhodesian binds, fi4d; fores. 3Md: Argentine hinds, b-?sd; f»res, 4d: Uruguayan hinds, 6%d; lores, 3'ad; Brizilian hinds, 6d. Otheri unchanged.