STEADY MARKET FOR LAMB.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1930, Page 16

STEADY MARKET FOR LAMB.

BUSINESS AT SMITHFIELD.

The lamb market, is steady. Owing to Christmas small interest is being displayed. Demand chiefly for poultry, beef, pork. Small shipment ex.Rangi- • tata of. new. season’s, lamb selling slowly, ibid, Ifd, .ex.'hooks. Mutton market: Wethers,, quiet with prices slightly.'easier. Trade slow. Ewes, steady at unaltered prices. Beef market: Trade slow owing to heavy arrivals of Argentine chilled beef. , New Zealand porker !pigs: Steady demand for light-weights. Poor demand for heavy-weights. New Zealand 1 baconer pigs: Nominal prices. ' The above report has been received by the New Zealand Producers’ Board from its London office, which 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 two .previous .weeks are also shown:— J ' New Zealand gjieep.—Canterbury and North Island'selected crossbred withers and maiden ewes, 48/561b., 5 LBd (5 l-Bd, sidj; 57/641b., 4 7-8 d (sd, 5 l-8d); 65/721b., 4 7-8 d (sd, 5 l-8d); North Island crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, 48/561b., 4 7-8 d (sd, 5 1-8 d); 57/ 641 b., 4|d' (4 7-Bd, sd); 65/721b., 4fd (4 7-Bd, sd); ewes, 481 b. and under, 4d;. 48/641b., '3id (same); 65/721b,, 3 l-8d (3 i-Bd, 3id). New Zealand Lamb.—Canterbury: 361 b. and under, BAd (same); 37/421b., 8 3-8 d (same); 43/501b., 7 5-Bd z (same);. second quality, 'average 331 b., 7 5-8 d (7 5-Bd, 7' ’7-8d). Other South Island brands: 361 b. and under, B}d (same); 37/421b., Bid (same); 43/501b., 7 7-8 d (7 5-Bd, 7 5-8 d). Selected: North Island brands, including downs: 361 b. and under, BJd•' (same); 37/421b., BJd (same); 43/501b., 7 5-8 d (same); second quality, average 311 b., not quoted. Other North Island , brands: First quality, 36 lb. and under, not quoted; 37/421b., not quoted; second quality, average not quoted. ■ Australian Lamb. —-Victorian, first auality (new season’s), 361 b. and under, Bid (8 3-Bd, 8 3-8 d); 37-421 b., 8 l-8d (same). Argentine Lamb. —First quality, new season’s, 361 b. and under, 7<d .(Bd, 8d); 37/421b., 7id (7<d, 7id). New Zealand Beef.—Ox fores, 3jd (3fd, 3 7-8 d) ;• ox hinds, 4|d’(4|d, sd); cow fores and hinds, not quoted. Argentine Chilled Beef.—Ox fores, 4 l-8d (4Jd, 4Jd); ox hinds, 6ld (OJd, sfd). ■ Australian Frozen Beef.—Ox crops, over 1001 b., 3|d (3fd, 3 7-8 d); ox hinls, over 1601 b., 4fd (4|d, 4 7-8 d). , . ■ New Zealand prime porker pigs, 60/ 1001 b., 8d (same); 101/1201b., 6Jd (same); New. Zealand baconer pigs, 121/ 1801 b., 6]d (same). . New Zealand frozen veal, not quoted.