LONDON MEAT PRICES

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1935, Page 12

LONDON MEAT PRICES

LAMB MARKET QUIET

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 and ewes is slow. The market for lambs is quiet and unchanged. The demand for beef is affected by low prices of chilled. Wethers, light 3 5-8 dto 4Jd pec lb, heavy 3d to 3Jd; ewes, 2Jd to 3 3-8 d; lambs, 2's 6 7-8 d to 7d, B's 6 7-8 dto 7d, 4's 6 5-8 dto 63d, seconds 6 l-8d to 6Jd; ox hinds, 3 srßd to 3 7-8 d; ox fores, 2 5-8 dto 2 7-Bd. Levin and Co.,' Ltd., have received the following cable.from their London agents, dated June .7, giving North Island frozen meat quotations as follows:—Down lambs, 28/361b 7d per lb, 36/421b 7d; crossbred lambs, 28/361b 6 7-Bd, 36/421b 6 7-8 d; quality lambs, average 30/311b, 6 l-8d; wethers, under 481b 43d, 48/561b 4d, 56/641b 3 5/Bd, 64/721b 3 5-8 d; ewes, under 481b 3 3-Bd, 48/561b 2 7-Bd, 56/641b 2 5-Bd, 64/721b 2Jd; New Zealand prime ox beef, 160/2201b, 3id. Compared with last week's quotations, Down lambs, 28/481b, and crossbred lamb, 28/361b, l-8d per lb lower; second quality lamb, jd per lb lower; wethers, under 641b, l-8d per lb lower; ewes, l-8d per lb lower. The market is quiet. Prices weakening all round.-