MARKET EASIER

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1938, Page 13

MARKET EASIER

N.Z. MEAT IN LONDON

.-The frozen lamb market in London is,, slightly easier on the continued heavy supplies oi home-killed, according to the weekly report received by the New. Zealand Meat Producers' Board.' The market for wethers and ewes is weaker owing to heavier supplies and poor demand. Frozen beef is meeting with good demand at the higher prices. Chilled beef prices are firmer on the lighter supplies. Light and medium-weight New Zealand porker pigs are unchanged. Heavyweights are slightly easier. For baconers. the market is quiet and unchanged. The new season's arrivals of boneless 'bobby veal are meeting with steady demand, with prices 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 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 (5 3-8 d), 49-561b 4fd (4 7-Sd), 57-641b 4Jd (4|d), 65-721b 4£d (4 5-8 d); ewes, 481b and under 3|d (3 3-8 d), 49-561b 2 7-8 d (3d), 57-641b 2 7-8 d (2 7-8 d), 65-721b 23d (2 7-8 d). New Zealand lambs: Canterbury, 361b and under 3d (Bc?>, 37-42Jb 7 7-8 d (8d), 43-501b 7~ 3-8 d (7£d); second quality, average about 311b, 6 7-8 d (7d). Other South Island, 361b and under 8d (8d), 37-421b 7 7-8 d (8d), 43-50 lb 7 3-8 d (7£d); North Island Downs, 361b and'under not quoted (8 l-8d), '37-42'lb not quoted (8 l-8d), 43-501b not quoted (7|d); second quality, average about 301b, 7d (7£d); North Island, first quality, 361b and under 7 7-8 d(7 7-8 d), 37-421b 7|d (7 7-8 d); second quality, average about 311b, 6|d (§ 7-8 d). Argen- <

tine lambs: First quality (new season's), 361b and under 7£d (7£d); 37-421b 7£d (7£d). New Zealand frozen beef: Second quality ox hinds, 145-210 lb, 4d (3 7-8 d); fores, 145-2101b, 3£d (3id). Australian frozen beef: Second quality ox hinds, 145-2101b, 4Jd (4Jd); crops, weights corresponding, 3 5-8 d (3Jd). New Zealand porker pigs: First quality, 61-801b 7 3-8 d(7 3-8 d); 81-1001b 7 l-8d (7 l-8d), 101-1201b 6£d (6 7-8 d); New Zealand baconer pigs, 121-1601b, 6£d(6£d). Boneless bobby veal (new season's), ex store, in parcels, 4Jd (4£d). New Zealand chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145-2101b, 5 7-8 d (s|d); fores, 145-2101b, 3 7-8 d(3 5-8 d). Australian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145-2101b, s|d (5 5-8 d); crops, weights corresponding, 4d (3gd). Union of South Africa chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145-2101b 6£d (not quoted); fores, 145----2101b, 4 l-8d (not quoted). Southern Rhodesian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145----2101b, 6 l-8d (s|d); fores, 145-2101b, 4d (3 5-8 d). Argentine chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145-2101b, 6Jd (6Jd); fores, 145-210 lb, 4 3-8 d(4 l-8d). Uruguayan chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145-2101b, 6£d (6d); fores, 145-2101b, 4 l-8d (3 7-8 d).