EXPORT MEAT TRADE

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 520, 1 August 1932, Page 3

EXPORT MEAT TRADE

Prices Realised on Home Market. SMITHFIELD QUOTATIONS. LONDON, July 30. The weekly quotations for the undermentioned classes of frozen meat, based on actual sales of wholesale quantities of carcases of mutton or lamb or quarters of beef delivered to the Smithfield market, and (or) ex London stores, have been compiled as follows, by the Quotations Committee, Smithfield. To arrive at equivalent ship values, 3d per lb should be deducted from the prices quoted below. Quotations are average for the week, and are not for selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of shipments now on offer:— Frozen Mutton. July 30. July 23.

d d Cross-bred Aethers and inaiden ewes— North Island selected— 65-721b 25 21 Ewes— 65-721b 21 21 Argentine (firsts) — Cross-bred wethers— 48-641b 2g 2g Australian (firsts) — Cross-bred and (or) merino wethers— 40-653b 21 2g 3 0-5 51b ' 21 32 Frozen Lamb, Canterbury— 361b and under 5$ — 37-421b 5* 51 43-50,lb 51 5g Seconds, average 301b 4| 5g South Island— 361b and under 5 5 37-421b 5 5g 43-5011) 5 51 North Island selected (including Downs) — 361b and under 51 51 37-4211) 51 51 4 3-5 01b 51 5 Seconds, average 301b 41 52 North Island— Firsts— 361b and under .... 5 5J 37-4 211) 5 5 Seconds, average 301b 45 45 Victoria (firsts)— 361b and under .... 4g 45 37-4211) 4g 45 Other States— Firsts— 361b and under 4g 45 . 3 7-4 211) 41 4 5 Thirds (all States) 45 42 Argentine (firsts) — 37-4211) 41 41 Chilled Beef. Argentine— Ox fores, 160-22011) ..21 2g Ox hinds, 160-22011) .. 51 45 Other prices are unchanged.