Frozen Meat Market

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2755, 25 June 1894, Page 2

Frozen Meat Market

: W. and B. Fletoher (Limited), London. Liverpool, and Birmingham, report r under date May. 19th, 1894 :— - • " -- *•■. - \ New^ealand Sheep.-—Althongbbbme-killed sheep have been; none, 100 )pl«o'tiiul, it has been found < impossible 'i^jmajatiin \ last month's rates with present heavy ;Btpokfl. T With an expeoted improvement •in , the" demand, choice, bright sheep? may probably harden iri value, bat -prospects for inferior qualities ' are anything out good., , . ■ T , -,..„*■ New Zealand Limb.— Demand oon* ,tinues (airly satisfactory, and ;witlfisoekf#. - in smaller, .compaie there, ought "to be no difficulty in maintaining present prioes^ Australian Sbeep.-Arriyals during Arjril ' and -May up' to 15tb r ws£; exceed 166i000 " carcasay which with; tbe slow demand partly accounts for^ current quotations. \ r Queensland Beef.'— -Owing to »bnnd«noe of keep, live- stock markets throughout the country have not been overstocked with Home-fed cattle; bat large supplies of cattle and beef from U.S.A. have been sufficient to bring tbe values of the two last named to a very low level. Eve»at present low quotations for the frozen article, the/ demand is, extremely, limited, Arrivals duriDg the past ihree'weeki were 42j747 quarters. ,. , The' Waikatd.an'dPereiiiibir^iaaealie ' , b .S$ in . ;«ra^noition, -but 6wing to Jack of oold> Storage tbe Duke of Argyll .ba« not yet commence* to «uV obarge. --„ ;,^ - \~; , . vv;"■ "-" > River PJafc 8b I wj ? .^ihe^htarrivate : have not presented tbe d.owuward couriie . ''-".)"' "^t* *i "' — - '*4w '•"'■•'■ '* «tote» Bbops; m^^HWvinon. I