LAMB MARKET QUIET.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 18 February 1939, Page 5

LAMB MARKET QUIET.

MUTTON PRICES UNCHANGED. CHILLED BEEF EASIER. Lamb market. —Demand rather quiet for tho time of year and prices shade easier. Mutton market; Wethers and ewes: Light.weights unchanged; prices of others lower; trade remains slow. Beef market: Chilled beef easier this week owing to poor traue. New Zealand porker pigs: Light and med-ium-weights shade lower. New Zealand baconer pigs: Market steady and unchanged. Boneless bobby veal: r Xrado slow.. The above report was received yesterday by the Meat Board from its London office, which a’dvises that the following arc the ruling prices of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of frozen meat mentioned and are for representative parrels of goods sold on Thursday, February 16. Chilled bpcj prices are averages of the week on which this list is issued. All prices are on the basis of delivered to Smithficld Market. Prices for the previous week are shown in parentheses:— New Zealand sh cop.—Crossbred wethers and/or maiden twes, 481 b. and under, 4-gd (4gd) ; 491 b to 561 b, 3|d (3id) ; 571 b to 641 b, 3|d (32d): 651 b ho 721 b, 3|jd (33d). Ewes, 481 b and under, 2gd (2|d) ; 491 bto 561 b, 2£d (2gd); 571 bto 641 b, 2|d (2id); 651 bto 721 b, 2i<l (2§d). New Zealand lambs. —Canterbury, not quoted.—North Island Downs. 361 b and under, 7gd (7j>d) ; 371 b to 421 b, 7|d (7Jd) ; 431 b to 501 b, 7d (7§d); second quality average about 301 b, 74d (7|d). North Island, first quality, 361 b and under 7-gd (7£d) ; 371 b to 421 b, 7d (7ad) ; second quality, average about 311 b, 7d (7d). Australian lambs. —Victorian, first quality, 291 b to 361 b, 6id (6|d) ; 371 b to 421 b, 6§d (6jd). Argentine lambs. —First quality, 361 b and under, 6d (6gd) ; 371 b to 421 b, s|d (sgd). Now Zealand frozen beof. —Second quality, ox binds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 4d (4d); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3d (3d). Australian frozen beef. —Second qualify, ox hinds. 4jd (4£d); ox crops, 3d (3d). New Zealand porker pigs.—hirst quality, 611 bto 801 b, 7 3-8 d (7jd); 811 bto 1001 b, 6jd (6 5-8 d); 1011 b to 1201 b, 6jd

(6jd). New Zoaland baconer pigs.—l2llb to 1601 b, 6id (6jd). Boneless bobby veal.—Ex store, in parcels, 4j,d (4gd). . . New Zealand chilled beef.—Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, sjd (s]d); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3 3-8 d (3jd). Australian chilled beef.—Ox hinds, sid (sid); ox crops, 3|d (3ad). South Africa chilled beef.—Ox hinds. 1451 b to 2101 b, not quoted; ox force, 145 lb to 2101 b, not quoted. Southern Rhodesian chilled beef.—Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 4?d (4|d); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3gd (3id). Argentine chilled beef.—Ox hinds, 145 lb to 2101 b, 6gd (6gd); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3 7-8 d (4£d). Uruguayan chilled beef.—Ox hinds, 145 lb to 2101 b, 5Jd (5 7-8 d); ox Tores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3 5-8 d (3 7-8 d). • Brazilian chilled beef.—Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 5 3-8 d (s^d). The market or) tho spot is weaker all round, particularly for lambs, saye tho cabled report received by Levin and Coy., Ltd., from their London agents. Compared with last week’s quotations, Down lamb, 361 b to 421 b, gd a lb lower; crossbred lambs, 281 b to 361 b, gd a lb lower, 361 b to 421 b, id a lb lower; others unchanged. Quotations on a delivered basis are as follow, North Island Down lambs, 281 b to 361 b, 7 3-8 d a lb; 361 b to 421 b, 7id. Best North Island crossbred lambs, 281 b to 361 b, 7id; 361 b to 421 b, 7d. North Island second -quality lambs, average 301 b to 311 b, 7d. Best North Island wether sheep, under 481 b. 4 5-8 d; 481 b to 561 b, 3|d; 561 b to 641 b, 3-|d; 641 b to 721 b, 3|d. North Island ewes, under 481 b, 2 7-Sd; 481 b to 561 b, 2gd ; 561 b to 641 b, 2gd; 641 b to 721 b, 2 3-Bd. New Zoaland prime ox beef, none offering.