BETTER TONE IN MEAT MARKET.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 139, 16 June 1930, Page 12

BETTER TONE IN MEAT MARKET.

The New ' Zealand Meat Producers' Board has received the following cable from its London office, 13th June, advising approximate average prices realised.for the week. Current prices and movements on the week (in parentheses) are as follow: —Canterbury and North. Island selected crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, 48----561b 5 l-Bd, 57-641b 4 7-Sd (up 1-Sd), 65-72 lb 4%d (up %d); North Island, 4S-561b sd, 57-G4lb 4vid (up 1-Sd). 05-721b' 4 5-Bc[ (up l-8d); ewes, 4S-641b 3-l-Bd, 05-721b 3d. Lambs, Canterbury, 361b and under 9 l-Bd, 37421b B%d, 43-501H 8l4d; second quality, average 331b, 8 l-Bd. Other South Island brands, 361b and under 9d, 37-421b S 3-Bd, 43-501b 8 l-Bd. Selected North Island brands, including Downs, 361b and under 0 l-Bd, 37-421b SV4d. 43-501b S%d; second quality, average 311b B%d. Other North Island brands, first quality, 361b and under S 7-Bd, 37-421b 8 3-8 d; second quality, average 311b B%d. Australian lambs, Victorian, first quality. 361 baud uuder 7 J/ad (up 1-Sd), 37-421b 7%d (up Vid). Argentine lamb, first quality, 361b and under 7%d, 37-421b 6%d. New Zealand beef, ox fores 3d (up %d), ox hinds 5 1-8 d (up l-8d), cow, not quoted. Argentine chilled beef, ox fores 3%d, ox hinds 6 5-8 d (up l-8d). Australian frozen beef, ox crops, over 1001b 3Yid, ox hinds, over 160 lb 5%d. New Zealand prime porker pigs, 60-1001b 7%d, 101-1201b 7d. New Zealand prime baconer pigs, 121-1801b 7d. New Zealand frozen veal, not quoted. Lamb: Market keeps firm. Consumption continues good. Mutton market: Lightweight wethers unchanged. Better inquiry for heavyweight wethers. Ewes, market is dull. Beef: Market is depressed owing to heavy arrivals from Argentina. New Zealand porker pigs and New Zealand baconer piga: Nominal prices.