IMPROVED DEMAND
LONDON LAMB MARKET
_The New Zealand Meat Producers' Board has received the following cable Irom its London office, dated March •> advising that the following are the approximate average prices realised for the week at Smithfield market and London stores, compared with those-of the previous week in parentheses:— wN!l V I Z? aland Sheep.-Canterbury and ™J th wethers, 48/56 5 7-8 d per lb (o 7-8 d); Canterbury and North Island maiden ewes, 57/64, 5 5-8 d (5 5-Bd\-K',^ 5™ (5%d); North Island', 48/56, 5 7-8 d(5 7-8 d ; 57/64, 5 5-8 d(5 5-8d)----65/72 5 3-8 d(5 3-8 d); ewes.Vunder, 4 58d i*f-8d); 48/64, 4 l-8d (4 l-8d); 65/72, 3 i-od (i 7-od). New Zealand Lambs.—Canterbury 36/ under, 6 7-8 d (6%d); 37/42, 6%d (6%d)----second quality, average 32, 6 S-8d (6 S-Bd)'----other South Island brands, 36/ under 6 7-8 d (BXd); 37/42, 6%d (6%d); Sding Downs, selected North Island brauds 36/ 43/00, 6 5-8 d (not quoted); second quality average 32, 6 5-8 d (6 5-8 d); other North Island brands, first quality, 36/ under, 6%d (6 3-8 d); 37/42, 6 5-8 d (6 5-8 d); second quality, average 32, 6%d (6 J/4d) Australian Lambs.—Victorian, first quality, 36/ under, 6d (6d); 37/42, 6 l-8d (6 l-8d); Argentine lamb, 36/ under, 6 l-8d (6 l-8d); 37/42, 6d (6 l-8d). New Zealand Beef.—Ox fores 'Hid (2'/id); hinds, 3 3-8 d (3%d).' Argentine Chilled Beef.—Ox fores, 3 l-8d (3d);' binds, 4 5-8 d (sd). Australian Frozen Beef.—Ox crops, over 100, 2%d (2%d); hinds, over 160, 3%d (3 5-8 d). New Zealand Prime Porker Pigs.—6o/80 5%d (5 7-8 d); 81/100, SAd (5%d); 101/120, 5%d (5%d). New Zealand Baconer Pigs — 120/160, 6d (6d). Lamb market.—Meeting with improved demand, with slightly higher prices for lambs, 36/ under. Mutton market. —Wethers and ewes remain very firm owing to continued short spot stocks. Beef market. Slightly easier. Demand checked by low prices of Argentine chilled beef. New .Zealand porker pigs.—Prices slightly easier owing to large supplies from the United States of America. New Zealand baconer pigs.—Market steady with fair trade.
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Evening Post, Volume c, Issue 54, 5 March 1934, Page 12
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343IMPROVED DEMAND Evening Post, Volume c, Issue 54, 5 March 1934, Page 12
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