EASY MEAT MARKET

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 131, 1 December 1930, Page 12

EASY MEAT MARKET

The New Zealand' Meat Producers' Board is advised from its London office, 28th November, of the following- approximate average prices realised for the week in Smithfield market and/or ex London stores, with movements on the week shown in parentheses:— New. Zealand sheep.—Canterbury and North Island, crossbred wethers, 4S/56 5 3-B'd (down 1-Sd); maiden ewes, 57/01 s%ci. Selected, ■ (55/72 s]4d;5 ]4d; North Island, 48/56 sYid, 57/64 5 1-Sd, 65/72 5 1-Sd; ewes, 4S/64 3 IM (down 1-Sd), 65/72 3\id. New Zealand lambs: Canterbury, 36/uhder S^d, 37/42 8 3-Sd, 43/50 7 5-Sd (down .1-Sd), 2nd quality, average 33 7 7-Sd; other South Island brands, 3C/under S'id, 37/42 B'/£d, 43/50 7 5-8 d (down 1-Sd); including Downs, selected North Island brands, 36/ under i B%d (down l-8d), 37/42 SMd (down 1-Sd), 43/50 7 5-8 d (down l-8d), 2nd quality aver- j age, not quoted; other North Island brands, not quoted, Australian lambs: Victorian, first quality'(new season's), 36/ under .B%d, 37/42 8%d.. Argentine, lamb: Ist/quality (new season's), 36/ under Bd, 37/42 7%d. New Zealand beef: Ox fores, 4d, hinds 5 l-8d (down l-8d); cow, not quoted. Argentine chilled beef: Ox, fores 4%d (down %d); hinds 5%d (down %d). Australian frozen beef: Ox, crops, over 100 4d (down l-8d), hinds, over 160 5 1-Sd (down l-8d). New Zealand prime porker pigs; 60/100 8d (down l-8d), 101/120 6%d (down %d). New Zealand baconer pigs, 121/180 6%d. New Zealand frozen veal: Not quoted. Lambs: Market quiet and unchanged.' Small interest is now being taken in remaining old season's lamb. Mutton market: Wethers, slightly weaker for lightweigths. Heavyweights, steady. Ewes, steady, with good demand. Beef: Market is depressed owing to heavy arrivals from Argentine. New Zealand porker pigs: Good demand for lightweigths. Heavyweights trade slow. ' New Zealand baconer pigs: Nominal prices'. Messrs. Levin and Co., Ltd., received on Saturday -the following cable from thenLondon agents, dated 2Sth November, giving frozen meat quotations, and reporting as follows: —As compared with last week's quotations, lambs are unchanged. Best North Island wethers tinder 4Slb l-8d per lb lower, 48/561b %d per 1b lower. North. Island ewes, under 561b, l-Bd,per lb lower; others unchanged. The market is quiet, with little doing.