MEAT VALUES

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LIII, Issue 13, 16 February 1932, Page 3

MEAT VALUES

CABLE FROM SMITHFIELD

NEW SEASON'S LAMB 62d TO 7d

A FIRMER DEMAND,

All the quotations for N.Z. lamb and mutton given in the week-end cable message received by the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board from its London manager are for new season's supplies. The message states that the lamb market is firmer with a good demand, the market being helped by the slow rate of discharge of steamers owing to the strike. The market for wethers is steady with ! fair trade, but the demand for ewes is quiet and trade slow. New Zealand beef is being neglected owing to low prices of Argentine chilled. Coldei* weather is stimulating the demand for N.Z. porker pigs, but large supplies of Home-killed continue to come on the market.

Canterbury new season's lamb is quoted as follows: 361bs and under, 6gd; 37 to 421bs, 7d; second quality,, average 331bs, 6|d.

Canterbury crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, 48 to 561bs, 41d; 57 to 641bs, 4|d; 65 to 721bs, 4Jd. Victorian first quality lamb, 361bs and under, sgd; 37 to 421bs, 41d.

Argentine first quality lamb, 36 lbs and under, 5Jd; 37 to 421bs, sd. N.Z. beef: Ox fores, lid; ox hinds, 3d.

N.Z. porker pigs: 60 to lOOlbs, sd: 101 to 1201bs, 4§d. Baconers, 121 to 1801bs, 4gd.