FURTHER ADVANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 100, 30 April 1938, Page 13

FURTHER ADVANCE

FROZEN LAMB PRICES

CHILLED BEEF EASIER

.' : New Zealand frozen lamb is still meeting with good demand in London, . and prices for all descriptions have further advanced, according to the weekly ■ cable received by the New Zealand Meat .Producers' Board. The market for wethers is steady and unchanged. ..' For ewes the tendency is easier. There are no quotations for frozen beef. Chilled beef is slightly easier on the -extremely heavy supplies. New Zea- .'; land porker pigs are firmer oh the short stocks. Fbr baconers,-the-market, is •Steady and unchanged. 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 are on the basis of delivered to Smithfield markets. Prices for the previous weeK are given in parentheses:—New Zealand Sheep- . Crossbred wethers and/or maiden ewes, 48/ under 5 7-8 d a lb (5 7-8 d), 49/56 s£d (sid), 57/64 5d (sd), 65/72 4 7-8 d (4 7-8 d); ewes, 48/iinder 4d (4d) , 49/56 3Jd (3 5-8 d), 57/64 3 3-8 d (3 3-8 d;, 65/72 3{d (3id). New . Zealand lambs: Canterbury, 36/ under 7Jd (7 5-8 d), 37/42 7 5-8 d (7id), 43/50 7id (7*d), second quality, average about 31. 7id (7 3-8 d); other So'ih Island, 36/ under 7Jd (7 5-8 d), 37/427 5-8 d (7£d), 43/50 7id (7.|d); North Island Downs, 36/ under 7 7-8 d (73d), 37/42 7 5-8 d C74d) 43/50 7}d (7|d); second quality, average about 30, 7 5-8 d (7 3-8 d); North ■Island, first quality, 36/ under 7 5-8 d (7*d), 37/42 7id (7 3-8 d); second quality, average about 31, 7Jd (7id). Australian lambs: Victorian, first quality, 29/36 7 l-8d (7 l-8d), 37/42 7d (7d). Argentine lambs: First quality, 36/ under 7d (6 7-8 d), 37/42 6 3-8 d(6 3-8 d). New Zealand frozen beef, not quoted. Australian frozen beef: Ox crops, weights corresponding, not quoted. New Zealand porker pigs: First quality, 61/80 7d (6 7-8 d), 81/100 7d (6 7-8 d), 101/120 7d (6 7-8 d). New Zealand baconer pigs, 121/160, 7d (7d)/ New Zealand chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210, 43d (sd);- fores, 145/210, 3Jd (3 5-8 d). Australian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210, 4 3-8 d (4 7-8 d); crops, weights corresponding, '3 3-8 d (3Jd). - Union of South Africa chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210, 5Jd (not quoted); fores, 145/210, 3 5-8 d (not quoted). Southern Hhodesian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210, 4id (4Jd); fores, 145/210, • 2 7-8 d (3d). Argentine chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210, 6d (6 l-8d); fores, 145/210. 3£d (4d). Uruguayan chilled beet Ox hinds, 145/210, 5 l-8d (5Jd); fores,' 145/210, 3Jd (3£d). Brazilian Chilled beef; Ox hinds, 145/210, 4 7-8 d (sd).