FROZEN MEAT

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 109, 4 November 1935, Page 12

FROZEN MEAT

LAMB MARKET EASIER

The frozen lamb market in London is slightly easier, according to the weekly cabled report received by the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board. Less demand owing to heavy supplies of home-killed has caused prices to weaken. The lamb trade is also at fected by other cheaper meats. The wether market is steady and unchanged. Lightweight ewes are easier owing to small demand. Heavyweights are quiet and unchanged. ta the beef market more inquiry has caused a small advance in prices. There has been more demand for lightweight New Zealand porker pigs and prices have advanced. Other descriptions are steady and unchanged. The market for baconers is quiet and steady. The approximate average wholesale prices for the week, with those for the previous week in parentheses, are:— New Zealand sheep, Canterbury and North Island selected crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, 48/undur ? 3-8 d a 1b (5 3-8 d), 48/56 5d (sd), 57/64 4 7-8 d (4 7-8 d). 65/72 43d (4Jd); North Islano, 48/56 4 7-8 d(4 7-8 d) 57/64 4 7-8 d(4 7-8 d), 63/72 4£d (43d); ewes, 48/ under 3|d (3 3-Bri), 48/64 3d (3d^ 65/72 2 7-8 d (2 7-8 d). New Zealand lambs, Canterbury, 36/ under 8d (8d), 37/42 8u (8d), 43/50 7 3-8 d(7 3-8 d); second quality, average about 31, 7Jd (7Jd). Other South Island, 36/ under 8d (8 l-8d), 37/ 42 8d (8 l-8d), 43/50 7Jd (7Jd) ' Norta Island first quality. 36/ under 72d (7 7-8 d). 37/42 7i'd (7 7-8 d), second qual ity, average about 31, 7 l-8d (7id). Australian lambs, Victorian first quality (new season's), 36/ under, 73d ( —), 37/ 42 7 5-8 d (—). Argentine lambs, first quality (new season's), 36/ under, 7id (7 3-8 d), 37/42 7d (7 l-8d). New Zealand frozen beef, ox hinds, 145/210 32d (3 5-8 d), fores, 145/210 2 5-8 d (2£d). New Zealand chilled beef, ox hinds. 145/210 43d (sd). fores, 145/210 2id (2£d). Argentine chilled beef, ox hinds, 145/210 sid (5Jd) fores 145/210 2Jd (2 7-8 d). Uruguayan chiiled beef, ox hinds, 145/210 5 l-8d (5Jd), fores, 145/210 2 5-8 d(2 7-8 d). Australian frozen beef, ox hinds, 145/210 3 7-Bd. (3gd)>, crops, weights corresponding, 2?d (2Jd) Southern Rhodesian chilled beef, ox hinds 145/210 4£d (4 5-8 d), fores 145/ 210 2|d (2 3-8 d). New Zealand porker pigs, first quality, 60/80 6Jd (6d), 81/ 100 6d (6d), 101/120 6d (6d). New Zeg land-prime baconer pigs, 121/160 5Jd (53d).