MARKETS WEAK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 16, 20 January 1939, Page 4

MARKETS WEAK.

RATES AT SMTTHFJELD. .MOST LINKS CHEAPER. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WKMiI NGTON, this day. Ihe Xw Zealand Meat Producers' Bo aril's report on tlx- Smit hfield market tor ttiie week ended .January 1!) state*:--Lamb trade is rlow owing to muggy wwititer and 'heavier supplies. Prices are a si) ado easier. WetJherH are weakor, excepting light-weights. Prices for ewes aic unchanged, but trade is dull. Frozen l>eef: The market for fores is slightly easier. Chilled beef is lower this week due to less consumption. New Zealand light-weight porker pigs are unchanged, others easier. New Zealand baeoner pigs are weaker owing to lower prices of Continental bacon. Priees are as foUow: — Sheep.—Xew Zealand: Maiden ewes, 491b to 56lib. 4d; 571b to 34!b, 4d; 651b to 721b, 4d. Xew Zealand la.nvbs: North Island downs, 301b and under, 7%d; 371b to 421b, 7%d. Second quality, average about 301 b, 7%d. Xortii Wand. first quality, 38lb and under, 7%d; 3711> to 421b. 7%d. Second quality, average about 311b. 7%<1. Australian: Lambs. Victorkui, first quality, 291 b to 3611). 6%d; 371b to 421b, 6%d. Argentine: First quality, 37H> to 421b, Oil. Frozen Beef.— New Zealand: Poles, second quality. 3d; Aun*raiiia.n crops, second quality, 3Vad. I'ijis. New Zealand: Porker. firwt qual'tv. Sllb to |(K)!I). 7d: 1011b to 1201b, tiVid: 12111. to ltiOlb, 6d. Chilled Beef.— New Zealand: Hinds, .■>%dAustralian hinds. sVfcd; crops, 3%d; Union of StHitii Africa hinds. 5%d; fores, Southern JJhodesian hinds, o'id; Argentine hinds, 6 1 /4 d; Uruguayan hinde, tU; utlieis unchanged.