Home Meat Market

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 235, 5 October 1936, Page 2

Home Meat Market

The New Zealand Meat Producers Board advises that the following are the approximate average prices realised for the 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 previous week are also shown): — New Zealand sheep. —Canterbury and North Island selected crossbred wethers and maiden ewes: 48/under, s}d (sid); 48/56, 43d (43d); 57/64, 4Jd (44d); 65/72, 4 3-8 d(4 3-Sd). North Island: 4S/56, 4|d (4.3 d); 57/64, 4sd (did); 65/72, 4 3-Sd (4 3-Sd). Ewes: 48/undcr, 44d (4 3-Sd); 48/64, 4d (id); 65/72, 3 7-Sd (3 7-Sd). New Zealand lambs.— Canterbury: 36/under, 7Jd (7Jd); 37/42, 7 I-Sd (7 1-Sd); 43/50, 6td (did). quality: Average about 5.1, id (id). Other South Island: 36/under, 7id (7|d); 37/42, 7r)d (7id); 43/50, OJd (6Jd). North Island Downs: 36/under, 7 3-Sd (7 3-Sd); 37/42, 7*d_(7id); 43/50, 64d (6id). Second quality: Average about 30, 71d (7Td). North Island first quality: 36/uiuler, 7 1-Sd (7 l-8d; 3i/42, 7 l-8d (7 1-Sd). Second quality: Average about 31, 6 7-Sd (6 7-8 d). Australian lambs. —Victorian, first quality: Not quoted. Argentine lambs. —First quality (new season’s); 36/under, 7d (7d); 37/K, Old (6id). New Zealand frozen beef.—Ox hinds: 145/210, 3|d (33d). Ox fores: .145/210, 2:(d (23d), Cow hinds and fores: Not quoted. New Zealand chilled beef. —Ox hinds: 145/210, 5 3-Sd. Ox fores: 145/210, 2|d. Argentine chilled beef. —Ox hinds: 145/210, 6d (6d). Ox fores: 145/210, 3 1-Sd (3d). Australian frozen beef.—Ox hinds: 145/210, 3 7-Sd (3 7-Sd). Ox crops: Weights corresponding, 27-8 d(2 7-Sd). Australian chilled beef. —Ox hinds: 145/210, 5 1-Sd (5 l-8d). crops: Weights corresponding, 2Jd (2 5-Sd), New Zealand porker pigs.—First quality: 60/80, Old (63d); 81/100, 6id (GJd); 101/120, 6 3-Sd (6 3-Sd), Now Zealand priino baconer pigs.— 121/160, 6id (64d). Lamb market: Steady and unchanged. Mutton market: Wethers, market steady and unchanged; ewes, firm with prices of lightweights slightly better. Beef market: Frozen beef market quiet and unchanged. Chilled beef firm with fores at slightly higher prices. New Zealand porker pigs: Meeting with good trade at the unchanged prices. New Zealand baconer pigs: Nominal. Stocks short.

The Bank of Australasia has received the following cable, dated London 1/10, from its London office: —“Frozen lambs; although less demand owing to the high prices market firm and likely to remain so in view of reduced stocks, frozen mutton; market has advanced during last month and prices likely to be maintained limited supplies met with moderate demand with tho exception of light weight wethers which are not easy to sell. Frozen beef; limited supplies fair enquiries prices have advanced slightly, market steady.”