COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1923, Page 10

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

~ FROZEN MEAT TKADE. HtJTJ'OX AND LAMB QUIET, BEEF STEADY V(DKIM» PRESS ASSOCUTIO!,>^COPTRIGHT.) '.L . . LONDON, 27th October. ■Sheep—?>orth Island, light 7}d, medium 7Jd heavy 7id: ewes, S;d; Australian firsts, 5Jd •econds old; Argentine, firsts, light 6Jd, heavySid; ewes, i\d. Patagonian oflering. i.ambe.—Canterbury, heavy, 9Jd; no Australiaj'oftering; Argentine, firsts, medium, Sid. ■Frozen .Beef.—New Zealand, fores 3Jd, hinds, ifi; Australian, crops, SJd, hinds 4fd; Argentine, fores 3{d, hinds 5Jd; Uruguayan, fores 3jd, hinds 4sd; chilled Argentine fores, ?£' £? da 6(i; Uruguayan, fores, 3Jd, hinds M, Other. meat prices unchanged. The New Zealand Meat Producers' Board k« received the following cable from its London office, dated 2Cth October, advieing Snnthfield delivered, prices at that date, as follows:— - "Prime Canterbury Lamb.—29-361b, 10} d per IKJ; 37-421b; Mgd per lb; .JS-501b, 9|d per Ib Second quality lambs, lod per lb. Other selected brand 3of lamb, 29-361b, laid; 3"-421b lOjd. Market Is quiet but Arm. ! Mutton—Light -weigJit wethers, Bjd; medium T-aight -wethers, "Jd; Ijeavy, VJd; ewes, 6d Sales slow. "Ox Beef—Fores, 3}d; hinds, 4Jd. A fur-1 ther advance is expected in consequence of Argentine exporters ceasing operations owing to the Argentine Government having fixed nifmmum prices." The Bank of New Zealand, Produce Department, has received the following advice from it|| London office under date 26th'October: JSlarket. for -wethers is depressed owing to awsence of demands. Ewes are also in poor demand. Lamb market is quiet, but firm with supplies .sufficient to meet demand. Beef market is steady. Wethers, light, 7}d to SJd per lb;--wethers, heavy,-eid to 7id; ewes Sja to 8}; lambs, lOd to ]ld; lambs," eeconda .aid to 10d; ox hinds, 4}d to 4Jd; ox fores 3d-to Sid; cow hinds, 4d to lid; cow fores 2|cJ to 3d:-

The Meat Producers' BoarcJ reports to lf.th October for the season shipments of 405,705 qimrters beef, 1,030,505 mutton, 4,160,378 lambs, Stbcks in co-pound freight carcasses in New ZeTUimd are as .follow :—Beef, 58.282 carcasses; -wether mutton 6952, ewe mutton 681S lambs r>s;p7S, pork 90, sundries 26,6-17; total,'equivalent 331,862. carcasses meat.