IN BETTER DEMAND

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 12

IN BETTER DEMAND

LONDON MEAT MARKET

The Bank of New Zealand, Produce Department, has received the following advice from its London office as at close of business this.week: —Trade in wethers is brighter with a better demand. There is a fair demand for ewes. There is >. little Iftetter demand for lamljs; the market is weyi supplied. There is only a moderate demand for beef. Wethers, light 3 5-8 dto 4 7-8 d per lb; heavy, 3 l-8d to 3%d. Ewes, 2%d to 3%d. Lambs, 2's G 3-8 dto G%d; B's 6 3-8 dto 6^3(1; 4's, 0 3-8 dto 6%d;- seconds, 5 7-8 d to 6 l-Bd. Ox hinds, 3%d to 3*^d; fores, 2 3-Sd to 2 5-Bd. ' Levin and Co., Ltd., have received the following cable from their London agents, dated April 2G. giving North Island frozen meat quotations:— ' Down lambs, 28/361b 6 5-8 d per lb; 36/4. 6%d. Crossbred lambs, 28/36. O'/sd; 38/42 6 3-Bd. Second quality lambs, average 30/5) Gd. Wethers, under 48, 4%d; 48/56, i ]-8d; 56/64. 3y 2 cl; 64/72, 3Mid. Ewes, under 48, 3 5-Sd; 48/56, 2 7-8 d; 50/54, '2%£; 64/72 2V&d. 'New' Zealand,', prime ox beef, 160/220, 3d. Compared, with last week's quotations crossbred lamb, 36/421b, l-8d per lb lower. AVether.«, under 641b, 1-8-1 per lb lower. Ewes, 48/561b, l-8d per Ib lower. Prime ox beef; 1-lGd per Ib lower. Others unchanged. The demand is good but not sufficient to cope with very heavy stocks. The market is slightly easier.