MEAT IN LONDON

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23037, 14 May 1938, Page 11

MEAT IN LONDON

PRICES AT SMITHFIELD LAMB MARKET EASIER DECLINE IN CHILLED BEEF An easier feeling is prevalent in the lamb market at Smithfield as higher prices are tending to reduce consumption, especially in view of the lower prices of lioine-killed lamb, states the weekly report of the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board. In the market for mutton trade is slow. Wethers and ewes are steady with prices unchanged. Chilled beef is easier, particularly fores, owing to heavy supplies and warm weather. Frozen beef quotations are nominal. . New Zealand porker pigs are easier owing to the poor demand. Baconers tend to be easier owing to lower bacon

The weekly quotations are based on actual sales of wholesale quantities of carcases ot mutton or lambs or of quarters of beef delivered to Smithfield market and/or London stores. In the case of chilled beef, the rates represent the approximate prices realised for the week at per lb. To arrive at the equivalent ex ship values one farthing per pound should bo deducted from the prices quoted above. Quotations given represent the average for the week, and are not selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of shipments now on offer. ;

NEW ZEALAND LAMB ' SALES IN- CANADA LONDON PRICES REALISED [bt telegraph—owy correspondent] WELLINGTON, Friday Trial shipments of New Zealand lamb to Toronto and other markets in Eastern Canada are reported to have been very successful. In on interview last evening the Minister of Marketing, the Hon. W. Nash, said the first shipment had all been sold at prices at least equivalent to those ruling on the London market. Thfe second shipment of lamb by the Huntingdon had also sold freely at good prices. These satisfactory sales, said Mr. Nash, were due to the tariff adjustments secured as a result of the negotiations carried out when lie was iu Ottawa, and subsequently confirmed in a trade arrangement with the Canadian Government. The duty on New Zealand lamb was reduced from, three cents to half a cent a pound, it was another indication of tho Government's activity in searching for alternative markets for Now Zealand's primary products. •Reference to the same subject was also made by the Minister of Industries and Commerce, tho Hon. D. G. Sullivan. Commenting on the news which had been cabled by the New Zealand Trade Commissioner in Canada, Mr. Sullivan said that Eastern Canada was eager to accept New Zealand lamb. He was pleased to state that the trial shipments were meeting with ready sales. "The initial shipment of oOOQ carcases has been cleared at satisfactory prices," added tho Minister, ' and the second shipment of 3000 carcases is going quickly into consumption in Toronto, stocks being almost exhausted in that centre." CHILLED BEEP COMPETITION PUKEKOHE - SHOW CLASSES Advice of the judging m London of the Franklin' Agricultural and Pastoral Societv's chiller , cattle class at the Pukekohe Show has been received in Auckland from Wilsons Meats, Limited, London. The beef was shipped to London on the Rangitiki and proved to he of excellent quality and a very even lot. The placing* at Smithfleld were:— Pen No. 489, Mr. C. G. Orr., 1; *o. 493. Mr. M. G. Orr. 2; No. 501, -Mr. K. T). Orr, 3. The judges reported that there was scarcely anv difference between pens 489 and 493, while the carcases' from pen No. 501. although rather light in weight, were excellently shaped. On the showgrounds the cattle were placed as follows No. 493,, Mr* M. G. Orr, 1; No. 4*6, Mr. E. A. Urquhart, 2; No. 489. Mr. C. G. Orr, 3. On the hooks at the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company's Works at Southdown the order was:—Pen No. 493. Mr. M. G. Orr. 1; No. .491, Mr. C. G. Orr, 2: No. 489. Mr. C. G. Orr. 3; No. 501. Mr. K. D. Orr, 4. ' PROPERTY AUCTIONS SALE OF PARNELL LEASES There was a large attendance and brisk bidding at the auction sale of Parnell leases held yesterday by T Msndeno Jackson, in their rooms, 3 Swanson Street. Eight of tho 15 sections on the new subdivision of church property at Cathedral Place were disposed (if at rentals varying from £5 to £39 a year, while three sections at the corner of Manukau Road and Sarawia street were disposed of .iu one block at £l3O a year.

FROZEN MUTTON . May 5 May 12 d d Sew Zealand — Crossbred AVcthcrs and Maiden Ewes: 5% Under -181b. .. 5% 48-.V5lb. sVj 5% ftT-nilh 3',i 3Vi (>5-72lb. 4'/'. 4'/* Ewes: Under 481b. .. 4 4 4S-5(jlb. 3V, 3V, 57-fitlt>. 3% 3V f Go 721b. 3 1 /, 3'/I FROZEN LAMB Canterbury: 7*4 aelb. and under 7V« 37-421b. 7% .7 1 /, 43-50lb. 7% 7 1j 4 Second, about 311b. .. 7'/a 7/i Other South Island i 301b. and under 7'/, 7 >/ 37-421b. 7% 7% 4S-50lb. 7*/ 7 , 'i North Island: 8(>lb. and under 7% 37-421b. 1 »-«/ • /• 43-o01b. 7'/ 7 1 /, Second, about 30lb. . . TV 4 /• 7Vj North Island, first quality 3(ilb. and under r>%/ 1 ' ? 7'/. 37-421b 7% 7% i:l-")Ulb. TV « /• Serond, about 311b. .. 7V, ~v> Australian — Victorian: First, 30lb. and under 7V4 7% First, 37-42lb. 7 7 Argentine (new season's) — First, 3Mlb. and under 7 7 First, 37-42lb. 6% OV, CHILLED OX BEEF (1151b. to 2101b.) New Zealand— Hinds • 4'/, Fores .. • 3 l /« Australian— Hinds IV, 4VJ Crops 3Vi 3% South African— Hinds • • Fores • 2'/i Southern Rhodcsian— Hinds .. 4 1 /* 4V« Fores 2 V. 2 T 4 Argentine— Hinds n o'i Fores . . ... 3 s /. 3% Uruguayan— Hinds .. 5'/. S Fores 3/'i 3% Brazilian— Hinds 4 3 A 411 FROZEN PORK New Zealand— First, (i0-80lb. , 7 6% First, 81-1001b; 7 6'/. First, 101-1201b. 7 6% First, 121-lGOlb. . 7 7 •Not quoted.