FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 196, 20 July 1936, Page 5

FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

LAMB SLIGHTLY WEAKER

WETHER MUTTON FIRMER.

The lamb market is slightly weaker for prime lightweights, but the tone remains steady with consumption satisfactory. .Mutton market: Wethers, firm with fair trade. Ewes: Market quiet and unchanged. Beef market: Frozen beef steady with better inquiry. Chilled beef prices better. New Zealand porker pigs: Market quiet but firm. New Zealand baconer pigs: Market steady and unchanged. The above report has been received by ♦he Meat Board from its London office, which advises that the following are the approximate average prices realised for the week, based on actual transactions of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of recat mentioned, and are for representative parcels of the goods offering during the week, being for business done on the basis of delivered to Smith field market, and/or ex London stores. Prices for the two previous weeks are also shown :

Now Zealand sheep.—Canterbury and North Island selected crossbred wethers and maden ewes, 481 b and under, 5d (same); 481 b to 561 b. 4|d (4gd. 4id); 571 b to 641 b. 4Jd (same); 651 b to 721 b, 4d (same); North Island, 48ib to 561 b, 4§d (4j{d, 4 2 d); 571 b to 641 b, 4gd (same); 651 b to 721 b, 4d (same). Ewes, 481 b and under, 4-Jd (same); 481 b to 641 b, 3§d (same); 651 b to 721 b, 3|d (same). New Zealand lambs. —Canterbury. 361 b and under. 7Jd (7*d. 7|d); 371 b to 421 b. 63d (same); 431 b to 501 b, 6jd (6gd, 6|d); second quality, average about 311 b, 6|d (6gd, 63d); other South Island. 361 b and under, 7£d (7id, 7id); 371 b to 421 b, 63d (same); 431 b to 501 b, 6{jd (same). North Island Downs, 361 b and under, 7-id (7id, 7 a d); 371 b to 421 b, 6Jd (same); 431 b to 501 b, 6Jd (6Jd, 6gd); second quality, average about 301 b, 7d (7d, 7id); North Island first quality, 361 b and under, 7d (same); 371 b to 421 b, 6|d (same); second quality, average about 311 b, 6§d (6gd, 63d). Australian lambs. —Victorian first quality, 361 b and under, 6 3-8 d (6j.d, 6 2 d); 371 b to 421 b, 6d (same). Argentine lambs. —First quality, 361 b and under, 6 3-8 d (same); 371 b to 421 b, 6d (same). . New Zealand frozen beef.—Ox binds, 145 lb to 2101 b, 3 3-4 d (same); fores, 1451 bto 2101 b, 23-4 d (same). Chilled beef: Ox Linds, 1451 bto 210ib, sfd (4j,d, 4Ad); lores, 1451 bto 2101 b.: 23-4 d (23-4 d, 26-8 d). Argentine tiiilled beet. —Ox binds, 1451 b to 210ib, 6jd (5 8-4 d, sad); fores, 1451 bto 2101 b, 31 d (did, 27-8 d). Uruguayan chilled beef. —Ox hinds, 145 lb to 210ib, s±d (4 3-4 d, 4id): fores, 1461 b to 2101 b, 3d (23-4 d, 23-4 d). Brazilian chilled beef. —Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, sgd (4fd, 4d). Austraii.n fiozeu beef. —Ox hinds, 145 lb to 2iolo, 3 b-4d (same); crops, weights corresp.tiding, 2 b-4d (27-3 d, oil). Chitted beef: Ox binds, 1451 bto 210ib, 5d (4id, 3 7-8 d); crops, weights corresponding 23-4 d (23-4 d, 25-8 d). Union of (south Africa chilled beef. — Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 5 d-4d (4 7-Bd, 4 3-8 d); fores, 1451 bto 210, 2 7-bd (23-4 d, 2 3-4d)'.“ Southern Rhodesian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 4 3-8 d (3 7-Bd, 3 7-6 d); fores, 1451 bto 2101 b, 2 3-8 (21d, 23-8 d). . New Zcalund porker pigs,—First quality, 601 b to 80lb, 5 7-8 d (same); 811 b to 1001 b, 6 3-4 d (same); 1011 bto 1201 b, 5 7-8 d (same). Baccner pigs: 1211 b to 160. b 6d (same).