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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12870, 25 May 1936, Page 8

COMMERCIAL

MEAT MARKET.

LAMB REMAINS FIRM

PORKERS SHOW SLIG HT DECLINE.

BEET’ MAY FOLLOW SUIT.

A reduction lias occurred in rales paid in Gisborne for light and medium porker pigs, with a prospect of a declino in beef. Export lamb prices remain firm. The lamb schedule remains at 8d per lb up to 80!!), but a. variation exists between the schedules of certain buyers. Romo make the. maximum payment for only lightweight woolly lambs, with Jd deduction for shorn, while others are paying 8d for both woolly and shorn up to 301 b and pi less for weights nbovo that'figure and for seconds. Wethers and ewes continue lo he bought on the feet, with owes still very scarce. Two-tooth wethers are being purchased at 235, with exceptional quality at 23s Od, and 4-toolli at 24s Od and up to 25s for some lines, hut a reduction is expected this week. Ewes, when obtainable, are worlh from Its Od to 15s Od. Much stock has boon bought on a forward basis lately for killing up to the end of May, hut a weakening is expected this week. Prime ox has boon bought at 20s per 100!b, with heifers at 22s 0d and cows at 17s. Buying on the feet has been popular, and for a while rows were worth rCO. sometimes higher, hut 4ho values have now declined to about £■’>. A recent reduction in the value of hides is expected to affect tho buying schedules ir: Gisborno this week by about Is Od per 1001 b.

Light and medium porker pigs have declined on tho latest schedule by j d per lb, with heavy weights and baroners unaltered. The present schedule is: Porkers—up to 8011), 5-Jd : 811 b. to 1001 b, 4 5/Sd. Baeoners—l2llb to 1001 b, 01/8d; 10)1 lb to 1801 b, Hd ; 1811 bto 2001 b, 2;cl; over 2001 b. 21'd : exportable choppers, 2’d. Second grade pigs arc -Pi less, all weights. Tokomaru Bay rates ’pi lower than theso rates, which are for killings at tho Ivaiti freezing works. LONDON MEAT QUOTATIONS. (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel- ttapvnglit.}. (Received Ai.iy 21, 0.30 p.m.). LONDON, May 2M. Following are. tho latest Smith Hold quotations:— . --Frozen ALi.il. — New Zealand .Sheep.—Canterbury and North Island selected crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, -181 b to o<> jb., -Jjd; -North island, -[Blb to nolb., 4pi; owes under; ■ lb, Fpl; -IBlb in Glib 3pi; \)")!b to 72ib, B’d. Australian Sheep.—First quality crossbreds and ; or wetlurs, 4lllb in 651 b., 4!pl; second quality, 3Gib to lb., 351 bto 551 b., 4Hd; ewes, 80!b to 551 b, 4-id. Argentine Sheep.— E.i’st qu’.diLy erossl'ied wethers, 48!h to Glib, 4.1 cl; 051 b. to 721 b., 3;d. Patagonian Sheep.—■Wethers, and/ or maiden ewes under 5011). IJdi; second quality average about /Lib, G’d; New Zealand Lambs.— Canterbury, dtilbs. and under, 7fd Olher South Island, 3Glb and under. 7Jd; selected North Island, sivuiid quality, average about M.ill*., < Ad: otlieri North Island, first quality, 30 lb. and under, 7d; 371 b .to 421 b, li’ 1. Australian Lambs.—Victorian, second quality, 361 b. and undc'r. Old; al. 8 tilt os, third quality, average about 2-Gib., GJd. Patagonian Lambs. —Firsi.q vi ali t y 301 b., and under, G',d; -‘5711) to !2P>.. 53d; stcotid quality, average about sOlb., G.'.dNew Zealand 'Frozen Beef. -Ox fore, J-151 blo 2101 b., 3d. —Chilled B. ef.--New Zealand.—Ox binds, ] toll), to 2101 b. 3pl. Australian.—Ox hinds, 8-id ; ox crops, weights corresponding, 2-id. Union of South AH'ica. —Ox binds, 145 H) to 2101 b., 4-Jd : ox fores, weights corresponding, 2’,d. Argentine.—Ox fores, 1151 bto 2101!)., 2 3ci. Uruguayan.—-Ox hinds, 1151 b to 2101 h., -Qd; ox lores, weights corresponding, 2td. Brazilian.-—Ox binds, I*ls!b. lo 210 lb., 3bl. —Frozen -Meat. New Zealand 'Pigs.—First qua lily Sill) to lOOih., 5-id. The other quotations are unchanged. LONDON -MABKKT REPORT. The Bank of New Zealand advises receipt o: the following cabled adv;co from its London olliee as 'al close Imsincss last week : “Wethers: There is a moderate- demand. Prices are. a shade lower. Ewes: The market; is depressed owing to absence of demand. Lambs: The market has (helmed but is not expected to go lower. There is n liitio better demand. Trade generally is slow. Current quotations.— Wethers, light-, 4’d to sd; heavy, 3;pl to -Id; owes, 3d to 4’d; lambs, two, 7d to 7’,d; eights, G.Ui to G’d: fours, G’d to G’d; seconds, G;pl to G’d.” MATZEMABKET AUCKLAND, May 20. Th d market for maize is well supplied with South African and Java, shipments. Small samples of new season’s Bay ef Plenty maize have reached tho city. The quotation for whole • and icrushed is- 6s 7cl per bushel.