LAMB MARKET FIRM

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 72, 18 December 1937, Page 12

LAMB MARKET FIRM

Hertford Shipment Sells At LONDON STOCKS SHORT Lamb market: Very firm with spot stocks still short. Old season’s exhausted. Small quantity of new season's, ex Hertford, selling at 9-}d. ex hooks. Mutton market: Wethers and ewes, firmer owing to smaller prospective supplies. Beef market: Frozen beef, steady trade at unchanged prices. Chilled beef, hindquarters shade firmer; fores unchanged. N.Z. porker pigs: Firmer ou the better consumption. N.Z. baconer pigs’: Shade firmer with stocks light. The above report was received yesterday by the Meat Board from its London office which advises that the following are the ruling prices of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of frozen meat mentioned and are for representative parcels of the goods sold on Thursday. Chilled beef prices are averages of the week. AU prices are on the basis of delivered to Smithfield market: —

N.Z. sheep: Crossbred wethers and/or maiden ewes, 481 b. and under, 6d.; 491 b. to 561 b., 5-}d.; 571 b. to 641 b., 5d.; 651 b. to 721 b., 4|d.; ewes, 481 b. and under, 4 3-Bd.; 491 b. to 561 b., 3 7-Bd.; 571 b. to 641 b., 3jd.; 651 b. to 721 b., 3 Jd. N.Z. lambs: Canterbury, not quoted; other South Island, not quoted; North Island Downs and others, not quoted. Australian lambs: Victorian, Ist quality, 291 b. to 361 b., Bd.; 371 b. to 421 b., 7 7-Bd.

Argentine lambs: Ist quality, 361 b. and under, 7R1.; 371 b. to 421 b., 7 l-Bd. N.Z. frozen beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b. to 2101 b., 4 l-Bd.; ox fores, 3R1.. Australian frozen beef: Ox hinds, 4fd.; ox crops, 3 3-Bd. N.Z. porker pigs: Ist quality, 611 b. to 801 b.. 7id.; 811 b. to 1001 b., 7jd.; 1011 b. to 1201 b., 7 l-Bd.; N.Z. basoner pigs, 121 lb. to 1601 b., 6 7-Bd. NjZ. chilled beef: Ox hinds, 5.}d.; fores, 3Jd. Australian chilled beef: Ox hinds, s}d.; ox crops, SJd. Southern Rhodesian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 5 3-Bd.; fores, 34d. Argentine chilled beef: Ox hinds, 6 l-Bd.; fores, 4d. Uruguayan chilled beef: Ox hinds, ssd.; fores, 3 7-Bd. Cathie, Dempster and Co., Ltd., have received the following report from Sheed, Thomson and Co., Ltd., London: No old season’s lamb; new season’s selling round 9d. Wethers and ewes, market firmer; beef, market slow; porkers, market firmer : baconers, market steady. Levin and Co., Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London agents, dated December 16: Frozen meat quotations unaltered; market continues firm all round. Henry S. Fitter and Sons, Ltd., have received the following report from their London office :—Lambs: The market is short of supplies; prices nominal. Wethers: The market is firm, but there is little business doing. Ewes: There is a fair demand. Chilled b/ef: The market is steady. Pork : There is a fair demand. Trade generally is fair. BUTTER AND CHEESE Smaller Shipments Last Month Shipments of butter last month were 9490 tons, compared with 12,020 tons for November, 1936, a decrease of 2530 tons. For the four months ended November 30 shipments totalled 46,432 tons, compared with 44,323 tons for the corresponding period of last year, an increase of 2109 tons. Australian shipments of butter to the United Kingdom last month were 10,439 tons, an increase of 3021 tona over those for November, 1936. For the_ four months shipments totalled 25,405 tons, compared with 22,975 tons for the corresponding period of last year, an increase of 2430 tons. Shipments of New Zealand cheese last month were 4864 tons, compared with 6589 tons in November, 1936, a decrease of 1725 tone. Shipments for the four months totalled 23,613 tons, as against 21,737 tons for the same period of last year, an increase of 1876 tons. Shipments of Australian cheese to Britain for the four months were 3234 tons, an increase of 1555 tons.' LONDON BUTTER MARKET Advance In New Zealand Salted By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London. December 16. The butter market is firm. Danish, 150/- a cwt.; choicest salted New Zealand 114/-, Australian 113/-: unsalted New Zealand 116/-, Australian 114/-. The cheese market is quiet. New Zealand white 65/6 a cwt., coloured 65/-; Australian white and coloured 64/- and 63/-. The price of New Zealand salted butter shows an advance of 3/- a cwt. since the end of last week, when the quotation was 110/- to 111/-.

BRADFORD TOPS MARKET Further Advance In Prices By Telegraph.—Press. Assu.—Copyright. / London, December 16. The Bradford tops market is firmer on the strength of the raw njaterial. To-day’s quotations compare with those previously cabled as follows: —

Wright, Stephenson and-Co., Ltd., and Abraham and Williams, Ltd., received cable advice from their Bradford agent regarding the tops market as follows: Merino tops arc Id. up and fine crossbred tops id. up, and other crossbred tops are Id. up. There is a fair amount of inquiry, with a moderate amount of business passing.

Nov. Nov. Dee. Dee. z 9 16 Merinos— d. d. d. d. TO's 30 31 33 64's 27 28 30 31 GO'S Crossbreds — 26 27 29 30 58’s 24 A 24 i 24 4 56\s 23 23 23* 50’s 20 20 1.8 A - .19 4G'<s — — — — 40’s — — —-