LONDON MEAT MARKET.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 130, 29 November 1926, Page 11

LONDON MEAT MARKET.

(United Press Association. —Copyright.)

LONDON, 27th November. Lambs—Canterbury, seconds, 8;il per lb. Australian firsts, Victorian BJd, other States Sjd. Seconds, Victorian Bd, other States BJd. Thirds, BJd. » Frozen Beef.—New Zealand, fores 3{d, hinds 4d. Australian, crops Sid, hinds 4d. Chilled Beef.—Argentine, forea 35<1, hinds ojd. Other meats are unchanged. -The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, has received the following cablegram from its London bouse, under date 20th instant:—"New Zealand Frozen Meat: Frozen meat, no change In market La6t quotations, 19th November: Lamb, 9Jcl per lb (average); mutton, 5Jd per lb, wether and maiden ewe light; sjd per lb wether and maiden ewe, heavy; 4d per lb ewe light; SJd per lb, ewe heavy." The Bank of New Zealand, produce department, has received the following advice from its London office under date 26th November:— "Frozen meat: There is only a poor demand for wethers. There is a little better demand for ewes. Tho market is weaker for heavyweight lambs; light-weights remain steady. Beef Is in short supply and prices aro nominal. Wethers, light, 5%d to OMd per lb; heavy, 5d to 5%d. Ewes, 3Vid to 4<4d. Lambs, 2's, OVid to 9%d; B's, B^id to S?4d; 4's, 7d to IMA; seconds, B%d to 8%d."