FROZEN MEAT MARKET.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 31, 7 February 1927, Page 11

FROZEN MEAT MARKET.

. LONDON, sth February, market"— S are quotations in the meat

Sheep.—Canterbury, medium, none ofP wpngi,hea AV>\ 6f per New Zealand !i i ■'" ustr, ahaD > seconds 4%d, ewes 4d; Argentine, heavy 4%d, ewes 4d. ljambs.—Canterbury, heavy IV.A- Aim rahan firsts, Victorian 8 lV others 7 tSrds Se6 C%d ' Vlctorian 7d > others <J 5-8 d;

lilleil Beef-~Argentine, fores 4d, hinds 5%d; other meats are unchanged.

The Bank of New Zealand, Produce Department, has received the'following advice from its London office, under date 4th w,: ~ r°Zel\ meat--T1»c market for lambs and wether mutton is expected to Ow ™? °« mg *? la- rge suPP^s "riving. Owing to the reduction in the prices for l 1X S av'f ?T aSi haS im Proved- Wethers, *?,K m£ to 7d l)er lb; aethers, heavy sVid to 6%d per )b; ewes, 3%d to 4%d per b; lambs, 2's. lOtfd to 10% d per lb; lambs S's 10Md to 10?4d per lb; lambs seconds, 9%d to lOd per lb; lambs, Australian 6 %d to 9d per lb; lambs, Argentine, 6d to 7d per lb." The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London house, under date 4th instant:— New Zealand frozen meat.—Lamb, lOd per lb (average); mutton, wether and maiden ewe, light, 6 5-Sd per lb; wether and maiden ewe, light, 6 l-8d per lb; ewe light, 4 l-8d per lb; ewe, heavy, 3 7-8 d per lb. Fair demand." '