LONDON MEAT MARKET

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1936, Page 14

LONDON MEAT MARKET

NEW SEASON'S ARRIVALS

The frozen lamb market in London is quiet owing to the usual Christmas demand for poultry and heavier meats, according to the weekly cable received by the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board. The Wairangi's shipment of new season's lamb is selling slowly at 8d to Bid ex hooks. Wethers are quiet. The market for ewes is steady and unchanged. The frozen beef market is quiet and unchanged. Chilled beef is meeting with good trade at the better prices. The New Zealand porker pig market is steady and unchanged. Quotations for baconers are nominal.

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, 481b and under 5Jd a lb (53d), 48-56 s|d (s|d), 57-64 5d (sd), 65-72 4?d (4sd); North Island, 48-56 5Jd (s|d), 57-64 5d (sd), 65-72 4i!d (4Jd); ewes, 481b and under 4 3-8 d (4 3-8 d), 48-64 4d (4d), 65-72 3 7-8 d(3 7-8 d). New Zealand lambs, Canterbury, 361b and under 7£d (7 5-8 d), 37-42 63d (6Jd), 43-50 6Jd (6id), second quality, average about 31, not quoted; other South Island, 361b and under 7 5-8 d (7Jd), 37----42 63d (6i'd), 43-50 6|d (6&d). Australian lambs, Victorian first quality, 361b and under 7id (7id), 37----42 63d (6Jd). Argentine lambs, first quality, 361b and under 6Jd (6Jd), 37-42 6.1 d (6Jd). New Zealand frozen beef, ox hinds, 145-210 4d-(4d), fores, 145-210, 2Jd (2Jd). New Zealand chilled beef, ox hinds 145-210 5 5-8 d (not quoted), fores 145----210 2 .7-B'd (—). ■ , Argentine chilled beef, ox hinds, 145----210 6£d (6d), fores 145-210 3Jd (3£d). Uruguayan chilled beef, ox hinds, 145-210 6 l-8d (5 5-8 d), fores 145-210 3 l-8d (3 l-8d). . ■ Australian frozen beef, ox hinds 145----210 4d (4d); crops, weights corresponding, 2|d (2Jd)'. Australian chilled beef, ox hinds, 145----210'5Jd (sd). ■ .- Union of South Africa, chilled beef_, ox hinds 145-210, not quoted (5'3-8d), fores 145-210 not quoted (3 l-8d). - ■ Southern Rhodesian chilled, beef, ox hinds'l4s-210 4 7-8 d (sd). fores 145-210 2 3-8 d(2 7-8 d). ■ .New Zealand porker pigs, first quality, 60-80 7d(7d), 31-100 6 7-8 d(6 7-8 d), 101-120 6'5-8d (6 5-8 d). New Zealand prime baconer pigs, 121----160.63 d (63d). -..:'■'■