LAMB TRADE SLOW

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 7

LAMB TRADE SLOW

The Bank of' New Zealand, Produc* Department, has received the following advice from its London office, as at close of business this week:—There is a little better demand for.wethers. The market for ewes is firm. Trade in lambs is slow. The market is oversupplied and prices are affected in consequence. Values for chilled hinds are weaker, but firm for fores. Trade generally is quiet. Wethers, ■ light, 4Jd to 5 5-8 d perlb; heavy. 4d to -4£d: ewes, 3i|d to 4 5-8 d; lambs; 2's,'7 l-8d to' 7 3-8 d; B's. 7d. to 7 l-8d; 4's, 6 5-8 d to B^d; seconds. 6 7-8 dto 7d: chilled ox Hinds, 4£d to 4Jd; chilled ox fores, 3id to 3£d. Levin and Co.. Ltd., have received the following meat market cable from their London agents, dated March. 5, and wire North Island meat quotations, i.e., including storage charges, cartage, market tolls, etc.;— Down lambs, 28/361b, 7 3-8 d per lb;- 3fi/421b, 7 l-8d; crossbred lambs. 28/361b, 7 l-8d; 36/421b, 7d; second quality lambs, .average, 30/311b '6 7-8 d: wethers, sheep under 481b 5 5-8 d; 48/561b. s!d: ' 56/641b. 4 7-8 d; <54/721b."4Ad; ewes, under 48115; 4hd; 48/561b, 4id;. 56/641b, 4 l-8d; 64/721b, 4d; New , Zealand . prime ox ■ beef, 160/2201b, 3 5-Bd. Compared -with last w"°k!s quntaMons. d?"'n hmh. 28/36Jb, l-8d per. lb lower; :36/421b, Jd per lb lower; crossbred lamb. !d per lb lower; second ounlity. lamb. l-8d per.lb.lower; ewes. 48/641b, l-8d per lb' higher; others unchanged. . The lamb market continues weak particularly for ,heavy weights. The' mutton market is steady,