LIVE STOCK AND MEAT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 805, 30 April 1910, Page 8

LIVE STOCK AND MEAT.

:'•-;;-;'COMPARATIVE PRICES., ;• -'-In order'to 'afford a means ;for a ready comparison: between the prices ruling at Aldington; forYlive stock; ana iii London for frozen -.meat,, 'tablesare published below showing this week's i quotationSj : . last- . week's,' and those' in the- corresponding week of the.-previous, four years. .-The: Adding-, ton:-pricas . each, case- tho top'prices' obtained for. the :different i imos," though'in'fat wethers and ewes the' figure's 'are for ! "prime," and not for "extra." '■ The. lamb .quotations are for freezing weights" and not for tegs:— '■'■'■■ V '\':y April April 1909.1908.1907. 1906. ;.•■-' '.. 27.; 20.. ,; ' •■:;■'■■_ v .'■■• ■'■'■•"'"." B.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. 6.d.'s.d. Fat. wethers 18 6 19 11" 18 3:' 22' 6 22 6' 22 6 Fat .ewes ..... 15 0 17 4 13 0 19 0 -20 I■lß 3 Fat -lambs. .14 6 .15 014 0 15 0 17 0 17 9' Store wethersl3 015 3 12 6 14 5U6 0 16.4 Btore.' ewes 16 3.'13 11 :15 11.12 6* 17 6 19.7 Store lambs il 0 11 6 11 0 14 0' 13 1 12 2 Beef, p'r 1001b : 22 0 22,0 .20:0 25 6 '.26 0 22-0 Bacon,.'per IbJ'O 4 .0 '4 . 0; 41 0 4i0.3i • The meat quotations cabled' from london by the_ High Commissioner on the.- corresponding dates, were as follow:—' '.....: . v - , Apl. Apl. ■•■■■'."- : 23. 16. •'<&'.'oß. ''07. '06 "••'- d. d. d. d. d.' d. 1 Canterbury mutton 4 . .4} -';3 4} 33 .4J N. Island, mutton... 33. 3?. 23■•■.■ 4 33, 3| Canterbury 'lamb' . 5S 55 43 ,-6J 5J 4i Other 'brands'lamb -4J 5," 4J: 5J 5J 43