LAMBS "QUIETILY FIRM"

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 147, 24 June 1933, Page 12

LAMBS "QUIETILY FIRM"

BEEF STILL REPRESSED

The New Zealand Meat! Producers' Board has received the following cable from its London ofiiee, dated Jume 23, advising that the following are the approximate average prices realised for th c week at Smithiicld market and London store?, compared with those of the pievioi is week in parentheses:— New Zealand Sheep: Canterbury and North Island selected crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, 48/30 _ 3-8 d (4%d), 57/64 3 7-8 d (3%d), Go/12 3V2d (S'/.d); North Island, 4S/56 4%d (4 1-8<1), 57/64 3%d (3 a-Sdl, Go/72 3 ]/_d (3 3-Sdl); ewes, 48/ under 3 5-8 d(3 5-Sd), • 48/64 3_Ul (3 1-Sd), 65/72 2 7-Sd (2*) id). New Zealand lambs; Cl-iiteibury, 36/undcr 7d (6%d), 37/42 7d (0 5-Sd), 43/50 6%d (0 3-Sd); second quality, (average 32, 6 l-8d (6 1-Sd); other South, Island brands, 3fl/uiider 7d (6%d), 37/42 7d (6 5-8 d), 43/50 6%d (6 3-8 d); selectee. North Island brands, including Downs, 36/ under 7 l-8d (7d), 37/42 7 l-8d (O-ftd*), 43/50 6%d (6 3-8 d); second quality, (average 32, 6%d (6 l-8d); other North Isftand brands, first quality, 36/ under, 6%d 06_-d), 37/42 6%d (O'/ad); second quality, asverage 32, 6 1-Sd * (6d). ■ * . , Australian lambs: "Victorian, first quality, 36/ under 6 ],4d (6 l-Bd|). 37/42 0d (6d). Argentine lamb: first oiuality, 36/ under 6%d (Od), 37/42 Od .5%dj.. New Zealand beef: Ox fo(res 2%d (2 1-Sd), hinds 2 5-8 d(2 5-Sd); cow fores and hinds, not quoted. ' Argentine chilled beef: Ox fores 2%d (2?id), hinds 4 7-8 d (3d). Australian frozen beef.j Ox crops, over 100. 2V_d (21_d); hinds, over 160, 2 7-8 d New Zealand prime porker pigs, 60/80 4V*d («_d), 81/100 4 3-Bd, (4 3-8 d), 101/120 4 3-8 d(4 3-8 d). New Zealand baconer pigs, 120/100, 4%d (3d). New Zealand veal: Not, quoted. The lamb market is qpiietly steady at the advanced prices. Consumption continues satisfactory. In th.c mutton market wethers are firmer, with, demand improving. The beef market is_nai_s depressed wftii a poor demand. The market for New Zealand porker pigsjis dull with small demand. New Zealand Tjaeoner pigs are easier with trade slow.