EXPORT LAMB
New Season’s Schedule
Opening prices for the new export lamb killing season in Canterbury were announced yesterday. Rates are from 2d to 3W per lb higher than at the opening of the 1962-63 season.
The new season will begin at North Canterbury and MidCanterbury works next week. New Zealand lamb has lately been, selling on a rising market in Britain, and a buoyant market for wool is also a factor in the setting of the new price, although at this stage of the season lambs are carrying only a light weight of wool. Under the opening schedule a prime 321 b lamb will be worth 50s Bd. compared with 44s a year ago. j Compared with last year’s i opening schedule, lambs over : 361 b are 3d to 3 lid dearer, ' while prime lighter-weights | are only 2d to 2lid up. How- | ever, in the case of seconds. | the increase is slightly in favour of the light-weight 201 b to 281 b lamb. Details of the schedule, with last year's / opening rates given for comparison, are:— Prime Quality
1963 1962 Diff. d d d per lb per lb per lb 201b to 391b 201 181 + 2 291b to 36’b 19 161 -1-24 371b to 421b 17 14 + 3 431b to 501b 151 12 511b to 561b 131 10 + 34 Second Quality 1963 1962 Diff. d d d per lb per lb per lb 201b to 291b 191 16J -i-3 291b to 361b 1-8 154 +24 Over 361-b .. ie 134 +24
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30264, 17 October 1963, Page 19
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251EXPORT LAMB Press, Volume CII, Issue 30264, 17 October 1963, Page 19
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