WEAK MEAT MARKET

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1931, Page 12

WEAK MEAT MARKET

' '-THE BOARD'S REVIEW

LONDON, 24th December. ! Jltostraliau lambs: Victorian, first quality, 37421b, od.

Australian -frozen beef: Ox crops, over iorilb 2 3-8 d; ox hides, over 1601b, 3 3-Bd. i Argentine chilled beef: Ox, fores,. 160-220 lb, 2 5-8 d; ox, hinds, 160-2201b, 6%d.

Thej-^New Zealand Meat Producers' BoarAVweokly cablegram" from' London' is to ttt& "effect' that small interest was taken in the-lamb market owing to usual Christmas.^r'cference for poultry, beef, and pork. The. iiilrtt'an market trade, -was slow, .with prices .'unchanged. The beef market, was dully -with a'poor demand owing to the large.;'supplies of Argentine chilled beef. .Theilmarket.for porker pigs was still overloadecTwith Home killed. The board haß -i received the following cable from its' London office, dated 23rd December, advising the approximate average prices- realised'for the -week. Prices for the two ■ previous -weeks arc-also shown:— ■ New Zealand sheep: Canterbury and North Island selected crossbred' wethers and maiden ewes, 48-sGlb 4d (4d, 4d), 57----641b, 3 3-8 d (3 7-Bd, 3 7-8 d), 65-721b, 3%d (3%d, 3%d); North' Island do. 48-561b 3 7-8 d (3 7-Bd, 3%d), ?7-Mlb 3%d (3%d, 3%d), 65-721b 3%d (3%d, 3 S-8d); ewes, 481b and under, 3 l-8d (3%d, 3%' d), 48-641b 2 7-8 d(2 7-8d,,2 7-8 d), 65-721b 2 5-8 d(2 5-Bd, 2 5-8 d). New Zealand lambs: Canterbury, 361b and under 7d (7%d, 7%d), 37421b 6d (6d l-gd"."'6%d), 43-eOlb 5d (sd, sd), second quality average 33!b 5d (sd, 5d l-8d); other South Island brands, 361 bund under, not quoted (—, 7d), 37-421b, not quoted (—, 6 1-SdK 43-sQlb-l]«t quoted (—, sd). New season^- including- Downs, selected North Island brands, 361b and under 7%d (7 7-Bd, '-Australian lambs: Victorian, first quality (new season's), 361b and under 6d (6d, 6£d), 37421b 5d (5 l-Bd, 5 3-8 d). AvgentineJambs.: First quality Cnew seaeon's) 361b and under 6d (6d, 6d), 37421b beef: Ox fores, Md fflM,' 2}id)L.*x7hinds, 3Kd (3 Md; 8 3-8 d). ArgWiW chilled beef: Ox fores. 2 BM V 2 7-Bd\-3'l-8); ox hind* 6Kd (6 l-Bd, Od). Australian frozen beef: Ox <*ops, over 30011) 2 3-8 d (2%d, 2%d); ox hinds, over ieolb,3 3-Bd(3Vy,3 3-8 d): . 'New Zealand prime porker pigs: 60-100lb, •JW-Sd (5%d,5 3-Sd); 101-1201b, 4%d (4%d, New Zealand baconer pigs: 121-1801b, '<|ftd («ad, 4%d). ' v -