FROZEN MEAT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 20, 20 December 1932, Page 4

FROZEN MEAT.

SUPPLIES IN BRITAIN. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 19. Discussing prospective prices for meat, Air D. Jones, chairman of the Afeat Producers’ Board, said this evening that there seemed to he a widespread opinion that there were still exi cessye of imported mutton and lamb in Britain that would seriously affect this season’s prices. This was not so. It was estimated that on January 1 there would he about half the amount of mutton that was in store a year ago, and also less lamb. A small quantity of New Zealand lamb that was held' over was second quality, which always suffered most from long storage. Farmers should note this point in reading the present London market reports. “The first new season’s lambs to arrive in London from Gisborne were sold last week at Bpi for under 3611). and 7pl over 361 b. There was only a small parcel of lambs on the Taimii from Hawke’s Bay, arriving in London on December 22, and these were sold at 7pi for. Downs and 7pl for crossbred, c.i.f. I j sold.” continued Air Jones, “a substan- j tial line of my own lambs shipped by j the Rnngitane, arriving in London on January 26. at a price that will net me , 5 2-8(1 per lb. delivered at the works 1 (all weights), and there were more over, 3611>. than under. Alore than twothirds of those were Down lambs. The expectation of the market in London till February is therefore quite good.”