PRICES EASIER

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 4

PRICES EASIER

LONDON MEAT MARKET

The demand on the frozen lamb market in London is rather quiet for the time of the year, and prices are a shade easier, according to the weekly cable received by the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board. Lightweight wethers and ewes are unchanged, but prices of others are lower. Trade remains slow. Chilled beef is easier this week owing to poor trade. For New Zealand porker pigs light and medium weights are a shade lower. For baconers, the market, is steady and unchanged. Trade in boneless bobby veal is slow.

The board advises that the following are the ruling prices of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of frozen meat mentioned and are for represeni tative parcels of the goods sold on Thursday. Chilled beef prices are averages of the week. All prices are on the basis of delivered to the Smithfield market. The New Zealand and Australian frozen beef quotations are for second quality. Prices for the previous week are given in parentheses:— New Zealand Sheep.—Crossbred wethers and/or maiden ewes, 48/ under 4 5-8 d a lb (4 5-8 d), 49/56 32d (3§d), 57/64 3 5-8 d (3ld), 65/72 3 5-8 d (3jfd); ewes, 48/ under 2 7-8 d (2 7-8 d), 49/56 2£d (2£d), 57/64 2 3-8 d (2£d), 65/72 2id (2 3-8 d). New Zealand lambs: North Island Downs, 36/ under 7 3-8 d (7£d), 37/42 73d (7£d), 43/50 7d (7 l-8d); second quality, average about 30, 7 l-8d (7 3-8 d); North Island, first quality, 36/ under 7 l-8d (7id), 37/42 7d (7*d); second quality, average about 31, 7d (7d). Australian lambs: Victorian, first quality, 29/36, 6Jd (6 5-8 d); 37/42, 6 3-8 d (6-|-d). Argentine lambs: First quality, 36/ under, 6d (6 l-8d); 37/42, sfd (5 7-8 d). New Zealand frozen beef, Ox hinds, 145/210, 4d (4d); fores, 145/ 210, 3d (3d). Australian frozen beef: Ox hinds, 145/210, 4 l-8d (4 l-8d); crops, weights corresponding, 3d (3d),. New Zealand porker pigs: First quality, 61/80, 7 3-8 d (7id); 81/100, 6£d (6 5-8 d); 101/120, 6Jd (6|d). New Zealand baconer pigs: 121/160, 6Jd (6|d). Boneless bobby veal: Ex store, in parcels, 4 l-8d (4 l-Bd).' (Chilled beef prices are approximate average prices realised for the week.) New Zealand chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210, 5 l-8d (5Jd); fores, 145/210, 3 3-8 d (3£d). Australian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145-210, 5Jd (3Jd); crops, weights corresponding, 3£d (34d). Southern Rhodesian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210, 43d (42-d): fores, 145/210, 3 l-8d (3Jd). Argentine chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210, 6 l-8d (6 3-8 d); ox hinds, 145/210, 3 7-8 d (4 l-8d). Uruguayan chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210. 5%d (5 7-8 d); fores, 145/210, 3 5-8 d (3 7-8 d). Brazilian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210, 5 3-8 d (5Jd). * Messrs. Cathie, Dempster, and Co., Ltd., have received a cable from Messrs. Sheed, Thomson, and Co., Ltd., London, giving the following quotations:—Lambs, 2's, 7^d to 7 3-8 d; B's, 7£d to 7 3-8 d; 4's, 7d; seconds, 7 l-8d to 7 3-8 d; wethers, l's, 7's, 3£d to 4 5-8 d; 3's, 9's, s's, 3£d to 3 5-8 d; ewes, l's, 7's, 2 3-8 dto 23-d; 3's, 9's, s's, 2d< to 2£d; porkers, 6Jd to 7 3-8 d; baconers, 6d to 6£dMeat market generally slow.