MEAT PRICES AT HOME.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 April 1937, Page 6

MEAT PRICES AT HOME.

The New Zealand Meat Producers' Board advises that the following are the approximate average prices realised for the week, based on actual transactions of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of meat mentioned and are for i epresentative parcels of the goods offering during the week, being for business done on the basis of delivered to Smithfield Market, and/or ex .London stores (prices for the previous week also shown): — New Zealand sheep: Crossbred wethers and/or maiden ewes, 48/under, 54d per lb. (sid); 49/58, 5d (5 l-8d); 57/64. 4 5-8d"(4 5-8 d); 65/72, 4*d (4Jd). Ewes] 48/under, 4*d (4*d); 49/56, 4£d (4£d); 57/64, 4 1-Sd (4 l-8d); 65/72, 4d (4d). New Zealand lambs: Canterbury, 36/under, 7 l-8d (7 l-8d); 37/42, 6 5-8 d (6fd); 43/50, 6 3-8 d (6 3-8 d). Second quality, average about 31, 6 7-8 d (6 7-8 d). Other South Island, 36/under, 7 l-8d (7 l-8d); .37/42, 6 5-8 d (6fd); 43/50, 6 3-8 d (6 3-8 d). North Island Downs, 36/under, 7£d (7id); 37/42, 6i£d (6|d); 43/50, 6 3-Sd (6 3-8 d). Second, quality, average about 30, 7 l-8d (7 l-8d). North Island, first quality, 36/usder, 7d ,7d); 37/42, 6 5-Sd (6 5-8 d). Second quality, average' about 31, 6£d (6|d). Australian iambs: Victorian, first quality, 29/36, 6Jd (6 3-8 d); 37/42. « 1-83'(-6 l-8d). Argentine lambs: Pirst •' quality, 36/under, 6£d (6|d); 37/42, 5 5-B'd 5 5-8 d). New Zealand frozen beef: Not quoted. Australian frozen beef: Ox hinds, 145/210, 4 l-8d (4 l-8d). New Zealand chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210, 44d (4§d); ox fores, 145/210. 3 5-8 d (3£d). Australian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210, 4 3-8 d (4 3-8 d); ox crops, 3fd (3 5-8 d). Argentine chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210, 5 3-8 d (5 3-8 d); ox fores, 145/210, 4d (3£d). New Zealand porker pigs: First quality, 61/80, 6,3-8 d (6Jd); 81/100, 6|d <6 l-8d); 101/120, 6id (6 l-8d). Lamb market: Meeting with fair

trade with prices of lightweights steady. Heavyweights shade easier. New Zealand baconer pigs, 121/160 6 3-8 d (6Jd). Mutton market: Wethers and ewes, tendency is easier owing to heavier arrivals. Beef market: Frozen beef firm with shortage of fores. Chilled beef: Hindquarters unchanged, fores firmer. - New Zealand porker pigs: Firmer owing to shortage of supplies of homekilled. New Zealand baconer pigs: Good demand at the better prices.