FROZEN MEAT MARKET.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 July 1936, Page 5

FROZEN MEAT MARKET.

GOOD DEMAND FOR LAMB,

WETHER PRICES STEADY

There is a good demand for lamb, with prices steady except second quality, which are slightly weaker. Consumption satisfactory. Mutton market: , Wethers meeting with fair trade, with prices steady. Ewes: Trade slow with prices unchanged. Frozen beef: Trade slow. Chilled beef: Better prices this week owing to smaller supplies. New Zealand porker pigs: Usual seasonable slackening in demand, but prices firm. Baeoner pigs: Market steady and unchanged. The above report was received on Saturday by the Meat Board from its London office, which advises that the following are the approximate average prices realised for tho week, based on actual transactions of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of meat mentioned, and are for representative 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 two previous weeks are also shown:-

New Zealand sheep.—Canterbury and North Island selected crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, 481 b and under, 5d (same); 481 b to 561 b, 4 3-Bcl (4Jd, 4-Jd); 571 bto G4lb, 4 l-8d (same); 651 b to 721 b, 4d (same). North Island, 481 bto 5611), 4 3-8 d (4Ad, 4£d); 571 b to 6411), 4 l-8d (same); 651 b to 721 b, 4d (same). Ewes, 481 b and under. 4 l-8d (same); -181 bto G4)b, 3 5-8(1 (same); 651 b to 721 b, 3 3-Bcl (3 3-Bd, 3£<l).

New Zealand lambs. —Canterbury 361 b and under, 7d (same); 371 bto 45 11), 6J(I (same); 4311) to 501 b, 6|d (same) Second quality, average about 31-lb 6§d (63d, GJd). Other South Island 361 b and under, 7fd (same); 3711) tr 421 b, GRI (same); 431 b to 501 b, OJd (same). North Island Downs, 301 b and under, 73d (7£d, 7-id); 371 b to 421 b, Old (same); 4311) to 501 b, Gfd (Cjcl, G-Jd) Second quality, average about 301 b, 7d (7-id, 71d). North Island, first quality 301 b and under. 7d (same); 37 lb io 4211>, Cjd (same). Second quality, average about 311 b, 6§d (61 d. 63d). Australian lambs. —Victorian, firs' quality, 301 b and under, GJ-d (same): 371 b to 421 i>, 6d (same). Argentine lambs. —First quality, 36 lb and under, 6|d (same); 371 b to 421 b. 6d (same). New Zealand frozen beef.—Ox hinds. 1451 bto 2101 b, 31 d (33d, 4d); fores. 1451 b to 2101 b. 23(1 (23d. 3d). Chilled beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 21011), 4ld (4J-d, 34d); fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 2Jd (2§d, 2d). Argentine drilled beef.—Ox hinds. 1451 bto 2101 b, 53d (s£d, 4£d); fores, 1451 b to 21011), Old (2|d, 2fd). Uruguayan chilled beef. —Ox hinds. 1451 bto 2101 b, 41(1 (4id, 3Jd); fores, 145 lb to 2101 b, 2ld (2RI, 2Jd). Brazilian chilled beef.—Ox hinds, 1451 bto 2101 b, 4Jd (4d, 3£d). Australian frozen beef. —Ox hinds, 1451 bto 2101 b, 3RI (3£d, 4d); crops, weights corresponding. 2Jd (3d, 3Jkl). Chilled beef: Ox hinds, 1451 bto 210 lb,. 4jd (3|d, 3jd); crops, weights corresponding, 23-d (2|d._ 21d). Union of South Africa chilled beef.— Ox hinds, 1451 bto 2101 b, 4£d (4fd, 33d); fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 2jd (2£d, 2d). Southern Rhodesian chilled l>eet. — Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3|cl (3£d, 3d); fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 2Jd (2gd, lid). . , New Zealand porker pigs. —First quality, 601 bto 80lb, ogd (same); 81 lb to 10011), 53d (same); 1011 b to 12011). 5-J-d (same). Baeoner pigs: 1211 b to 160 lb, 6d (same).