London Meat Prices

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 160, 10 July 1939, Page 12

London Meat Prices

The New Zealand Meat Producers' Board advises that the following are the ruling priees of wnoiesale quantities of the descriptions of meat mentioned and arc for representative parcels of the goods sold on Thtxrsday, July 6. Chilled beef prices are averages of the week on which this list is issued. All prices are on the basis of delivered to Smithfield Market. New Zealand sheep: Crossbred wethers and/or maiden ewes, 48/under 4 7-8 d(4 7-Sd), 49/56 4*d (4 3-8 d), 57/64 4d (4d), 65/72 3 5-8 d (3 5-8 d); ewes, 48/under 33d (3jfd3, 49/56 3 3-Sd (3Jd), 57/64 3d (3d), 65/72 23d (23d). New Zealand lambs: Canterbury, 36/ under 7 3-Sd (7*d), 37/42 6 7-8 d (63d), 43/50 6 3-8 d (6 3-8 d), second quality average about 31 7d (6 7-8 d); other South Island, 36/under 7£d (7 3-8 d), 37/42 6 7-8 d (6*d), 43/50 6 3-8 d (6 3-Sd; North Island Downs, 36/under 7 5-8 d (71d), 31/42 6 7-Sd (63d), 43/50 6 3-8 d (6 3-Sd), second quality average about 30 7 3-8 d 7sd); North Island first quality, 36/under 7 3-Sd (7*d), 37/42 6sd (63d), second quality average about 31 7d (6 7-8 d). Australian lambs: Victorian first quality, 29/36 6 5-8 d (6Jd), 37/42 6Jd (6 l-8d). Argentine lambs: First quality, 36/ under 6 3-8 d (6 3-8 d), 37/42 ssd (5 5-8 d). New Zealand frozen beef, second quality: Ox hinds, 145/210 3 7-Sd (3 7-8 d); ox fores, 145/210 2H (2fd). Australian frozen beef, second quality: Ox hinds, 145/210 3 7-8 d (3 7-8 d); ox crops, 3 3-8 d (3Jd). New Zealand porker pigs, first quality: 61/80 6 7-Sd (6 7-8 d), 81/100 (6 7-8 d (6 7-Sd), 101/120 6 5-8 d (6*d). New Zealand baconer pigs: 121/160 W (6Jd). Boneless bobby veal, ex store, in parcels, 5 3-8 d (5 3-8 d). New Zealand chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210 5d (sd); ox fores, 145/210 2 7-8 d (3d). Australian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210 4id (4 5-8 d ); ox crops, 3£d (3 l-8d). Union of South Africa chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210 5Jd (5 3-Sd); ox fores, 145/210 3Jd (3*d). Southern Rhodesian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210 4 5-8 d (4;}d); ox fores, 145/210 2|d (2 3d). Argentine chilled beef: Ox hiuds, 145/210 6Jd (6{d); ox fores, 145/210. 34d (3 5-8 d). Uruguayan chilled beef: Ox hinds 145/210 5Jd (oid); ox fores, 145/210, 33d (3*d). Brazilian chilled beef: Ox hinds, Ox hinds, 145/210 5d (5 1-Sd). Lamb market: Continues very firm with consumption good and prices generally are higher. Mutton market: Wethers and ewes, fair trade with prices steady. Beef market: Frozen beef, meeting with fair trado; chilled beef, hindquarters steady, fores shade easier on tho warm weather. New' Zealand porker pigs: Market firm, but trade slow. New Zealand baconer pigs: Shade firmer, owing to high prices of Continental bacon. Boneless bobby veal: Trade slow, but prices firm owing to shortage of supplies.