London Meat Prices

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 172, 24 July 1939, Page 5

London Meat Prices

Tlie New Zealand Meat Producers' Board advises that tho following are the ruling prices of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of frozen meat mentioned and are for representative parcels of the good sold on Thursday, July 20. Chilled beef prices are averages of the week on which this list is issued. All prices are on tho basis of meat delivered to Smithfield Market. (Previous prices are also shown.) Now Zealand sheep: Crossbred wethers and/or maiden ewes, 48/under 5d (sd), 49/5G 4 5-8 d (4Jd), 57/64 4Jd (4 l-8d), 65/72 33d (33d); ewes, 48/undcr 33d (33d), 49/56 3 3-8 d (3 3-Sd), 57/64 3d (3d), 65/72 2Jd (2£d). New Zealand lambs: Canterbury, 36/ under 74d (74d), 37/42 6 7-8 d (6 7-8 d), 43/50 6 3-Sd (6 3-8 d), second quality average about 31 7d (7d); other South Island, 3C/under 74d (74d), 37/42 6 7-8 d (6 7-Sd), 43/50 6 3-Sd (6 3-8 d); North Island Downs, 36/under 73d (73d), 37/42 6 7-8 d (6 7-Sd), 43/50 6 3-8 d (6 3-Sd), second quality average about 30 7 3-8 d (7 3-Sd); North Island first quality, 36/under 7 3-Sd (7 3-8 d), 37/42 6sd (6 7-8 d), second quality average about 31 6 7-8 d (7d). Australian lambs: Victorian first quality, 29/36 6 5-8 d (6 5-Sd), 37/42 G*d (6*d). Argentine lambs: Not quoted. New Zealand frozen beef, second quality: Ox hinds, 145/210 4d (3 7-8 d); ox fores, 145/210 3 l-8d (2£d). Australian frozen beef, second quality: Ox hinds, 145/210 4d (4d); ox crops, 33d (3£d). New Zealand porker pigs, first quality: 61/80 7d (7d), 81/100 7d (7d), 101/120 G3d (6 5-8 d). New Zealand baconer pigs: 121/160 6Jd (6sd). Boneless bobby veal (ex store, in parcels): s}d (ssd)* New Zealand chilled beef: Not quoted Australian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210 54d (sd); ox crops, 33d (3sd). Union of South Africa chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210 Gd (s*d); ox fores 145/210 3 7-Sd (3Jd). Southern Rodesian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210 5d (4*d); ox fores, 145/210 old (27-8 d). Argentine chilled beef: Ox liinda 145/210 6 5-8 d (6 3-Sd); ox fores 145/210 4*d (33d). Uruguayan chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210 6 1-Sd (5 7-Sd); ox fores 145/210 3 7-83 (3sd). Brazilian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 145/210 53d (5 3-8 d). Lamb market: Steady, with prices practically unchanged; consumption satisfactory. Mutton market: Wethers, better enquiry with prices firmer; ewes, quiet, prices steady. Beef market; Frozen beef, better

trade owing to higher chilled beef prices; chilled beef, firmer on the lighter supplies and good demand. New Zealand porker pigs: Quiet, with little change in prices. New Zealand baconer pigs: Steady owing to light stocks. Boneless bobby veal: Firm ou the short spot stocks.