VERY FIRM

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 50, 27 August 1938, Page 13

VERY FIRM

LONDON LAMB MARKET

The frozen'lamb market in London is very- firm,- prices having again advanced, according to the weekly cable received by the New Zealand Meat Producers' ( Board; .Consumption continues to be gopd v . Trade in wethers and ewes is slow and, with the exception of prices, tend to be easier. .':Chilled beef prices,: with lighter supplies, have improved substantially. Lightweight. New Zealand porker pigs axe firmer but trade is slow owing to warm., weather. Baconer pigs are: easier owing- to poor demand. 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 Market. Prices for the previous week are. given in parentheses: —■ ; ;New. Zealand sheep, . crossbred wethers and/or maiden ewes, 481b and under .5 l-8d a lb (sd), 49-561b 4§d (4fd), 57-641b 4 5-8 d (4 5-8 d), 65-721b. 4£d (4£d),; ewes, 481b and under.3 5-8 d (3 5-Bd)i 49-561b SJd (3-id), 57-641b 3d (3d), 65-721b 2 7-8 dC 2 7-8 d). New Zealand lambs, -Canterbury, 361b and under 7 7-8 d(7 5-8 d), 37-421b 7 7-8 d (7 5-Bd)j 43-501b 7 3-8 d (7, 3-8 d); second quality:, average about 311b 7d (6 7-8 d); other South Island, 361b and under 7 7-8 d(7 5-Bd),. 37-421b 7 7-8 d(7 5-8 d), 43-501b. 7 3-8 d (7 3-8 d); North Island downs, 361b and under 8d (7fd), 37-421b 7 7-8 d (7|d),;43-501b 7Jd (7 3-8 d); second quality, average about 301b 7Jd C!"-l-8d); North Island first quality, 361b and under 7|d (7Jd), 37-421b 7Jd (7 5-8 d; second quality, average about 311b I'd . (6id); Argentine. lambs, first quality, 361b and under 7d (7d), 37-421b 6^d (6|d); New- Zealand porker pigs, first quality, 61-801b 6§d (6 5-8 d), 81-1001b 6 5-8 d (6 5-8 d), 101-1201b 6Jd (6 5-8 d); New Zealand baconer pigs, 121-1601b, 6 3-8 d (6Jd). boneless bobby' veal (old season's), ex store in parcels, 4d C4d); New Zealand chilled beef, ox hinds, 145-2lolb s£d (5 l-8d), fares, 145-2101b 3id (3d); Australian chilled beef; ox hinds, 145-2101b 5 3-8 d(4 7-8 d), crops, weights corresponding; Union of South Africa chilled beef, ox hinds, 145-2101b sfd (5 5-8 d), fores, 145-2101b 3 3-8 d(3 l-8d); Southern Rhodesian chilled beef, ox hinds, 145-2101b 5Jd (4|d), fores, 145-2101b 3 l-8d (2 5-8 d); Argentine ,chilled beef, ox hinds, 145----2101b 6id (6|d) f fores, 145-2101b 3£d (3s 3-8 d); Uruguayan chilled beef,' ox hinds*. 145-2101b s|d (s|d), fores, 145----2101b 3id (3Jd); Brazilian chilled beef, pXaMnds^J-45-2i01h.-sid, (sidJ^