LONDON MEAT MARKET.

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 42, 18 August 1930, Page 12

LONDON MEAT MARKET.

'■• The' New' ' Zealand . Meat . Producers' Board has received the following cable irom;its London office, dated 15th August, advising the . approximate average prices realised for the week. Movements in prices on' the.week-are- shown in parentheses:—

Canterbury and. North Island crossbred ..wethers,, 48/56,. sd; Canterbury and North' Island maiden''ewes, 57/64, 494 d (up KBd);'. selected, 65/72, 4 5-8 d (up l-8d); N-qrth' Island. 4S/SG, 4%d; North Island 57/64, 4M:d; North Island, 65/72, 4%d (up l-8d); "ewes, 43/04, '3% (up l-8d); 65/72, 3d (iip 1-Sd); lambs, Canterbury; '36/nnder, 9cl, 37/42, S 7-Sd, 43/50, B%d; second quality, average 33, 7Ud; other' South Island brands, 36/ under, Bs/id,' 37/42, S%d, 43/50, S%d (down l-8d); selected North' Island brands (including Downs), 36/under,'9d, 37/42, 8 7-Sd, 43/50, B%d;, second quality, average 31, 7 3-8 d; Other North Island, first quality, 36/ under, 8 'l-Sa" (down 1-Sd), 37-42, not quoted;, 1-Sd), second quality, average 31, 7%d. Australian lambs, Victorian first quality, 36/ under, not quoted; 37/42, not quoted; Argentine'lamb, first quality, 36/ under, 6 S-Sd,: 37/42, 6'4d: New Zealand beef, ox j'otc's,'-''3%d (up %d), 'ox hinds, 5%d (up l-?d);i -Argentine chilled beef, ox fores, 4 ■ 3-8 d (up l-8d), ox- hinds, SVid ' (up 1-Sd); Australian frozen beef, ox crops, over 100, 3 5-8 d (up ; 1-Sd), ox "hinds, over 160 5%d (up l-8d); New Zealand prime porker pigs, 150/100 7%d (up %d), 101/120, 7%d (up %d); New Zealand prime baconer pigs, 121/180, 7d;(up-%d). • • .Lamb:. Market remains steady for best quality,- but; others, including all secondclass;, quality, slightly, weaker. Mutton market: . Wethers slightly firmer with more' inquiry. Ewes: A little more speculative buying has improved prices. Beef market: Firm. Stocks .are light. New- Zealand porker pigs: .Firmer, but demand is small. New Zealand baeonpr "pigs: Market is firmer at . better prices. .;-,,-