FROZEN LAMB MARKET

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 84, 9 April 1938, Page 12

FROZEN LAMB MARKET

CHILLED BEEF EASIER

The tendency of the. frozen lamb market in London is firmer, with a general advance in prices, according to the weekly cable received by the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board. Consumption continues to be excellent. Wethers are steady on the short supplies. Prices for ewes are unchanged, but trade is slow. Frozen beef quotations are nominal, owing to short spot stocks. Chilled beef is again easier on the heavy supplies. New Zealand porker pigs are steady, with prices unchanged. Baconers are firmer on the short spot stocks.

The board advises that the following are the ruling prices of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of frozen meat mentioned and are for representative parcels of the goods sold on Thursday. Chilled beef prices are averages of the week. All prices arp on the basis of delivered to Smithfielr market. Prices for the previous week are given in parentheses::—

New Zealand Sheep.—Crossbred wethers and/or maiden ewes, 481b and under, 5 7-8 d per lb (5 7-8 d); 49-561b, sid (51d); 57-641b, 5 l-8d (5 l-8d); 65----721b, 4Jd (4Jd); ewes, 481b and under, 4 l-8d (4 l-8d); 49-561b, 3 5-8 d(3 5-8 d); 57-641b, 3Jd Old); 65-721b, 3|d (3Jd). New Zealand Lambs.—Canterbury, 361b and under, 7 3-8 d (7 l-8d); 37-421b, 7Jd (7 l-8d); 43-501b, 7d (7d); second quality, average about 311b, 7 l-8d (7d); other South Island, 361b and under, 7 3-3 d (7Jd); 37-421b, 7|d (7 l-8d); 43----51b, 7d (7d); North Island Downs, 361b and under, 7Jd (7Jd); 37-421b, 7 3-8 d (7 l-8d); 43-501b, 7d (7d); second quality, average about 301b, 7|d (7 l-8d); North Island first quality, '361b and under, 7£d (7,1-8 d); 37-421b, 7 l-8d (7d); second quality, average about 311b, 7d (6 7-8 d); Australian lambs,-Victorian first quality, 29-361b, 6Jd (6Jd); 37-421b, 6Jd (6£d); Argentine lambs, first quality, 361b and under, 6 5-8 d (61d); 37----421b, 6}d- (6 l-8d); New Zealand frozen beef, ox hinds, 145-2101b, not quoted (sd);. fores, 145-2101b, not quoted ,(4d); Australian frozen beef, ox hinds, 145----2101b, not quoted (sd); crops, weights corresponding, not quoted (4d); New Zealand porker pigs, first quality, 61----801b, 6Jd (6Jd); 81-1001b, 6Jd (6Jd); 10M201b, 6Jd (6|d); New Zealand baconer pigs, 121-1601b, 6 7-8 d (6|d); New Zealand chilled beef, ox hinds, 145-2101b, 4Jd (4Jd); fores, 145-2101b, 3 5-8 d (3 5-8 d); Australian chilled beef, ox hinds, 145-2101b, 4 3-8 d (4 5-8 d); crops, weights corresponding, 3- 5-8 d (3jd); Southern Rhodesian chilled beef, ox hinds, 145-2101b, 4d (4d); fores, 145-2101b, 3d (3d); Argentine chilled beef, ox hinds, 145-2101b, 5 5-8 d (5 5-8 d); fores, 145-2101b, 4d (4 l-8d); Uruguayan chilled beef, ox hinds, 145----2101b, 4£d (sd); fores, 145-2101b, 3 5-8 d (3 7-8 d); Brazilian chilled beef, ox hinds, 145-2101b, 4 5-8 d(4 5-8 d)