MEAT TRADE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 935, 4 December 1933, Page 10

MEAT TRADE.

Quotations on Sheffield Market. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. BONBON, December 2. The weekly quotations for the undermentioned classes of frozen meats, 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. 2d 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:— TfrnsPTi Unttnn.

frozen Mutton. Dec. 2. Nov. 25. d. d. Cross-bred wethers and maiden ewes— Canterbury— 48-561b ' 57-641b 4 6 5-7 21b 3* — North Island selected— 48-561b 7“ 6 7 -6 41 b 4 4 65-721b -a — Ewes — Under 4Slb •••••••• 4S-641b 3S — 65-721b 3i — Australian — Cross-bred and (or) merino wethers — First 4©-651b 4 — Seconds 30-551b .... 4* Ewes 30-551b 52 Argentine (firsts)— Cross-bred wethers— 48-64Ib — 65-721b 3 a — Frozen Lamb. Canterbury— 361b and under .... 7 7 37-42Ib 6S Seconds, average 321b 61 bt South Island— 361b and under . — 7 <» 37-421b 61 61 Australia— Victoria (firsts) — 361b and under .... 62 7 37-421b «S Seconds 361b and under 5a 6i Other States — Firsts — 361b and under 6g 65 37-421b 6i Seconds 361b and under 51 6 Thirds (all States) — Average 261b 52 6a Argentine (firsts)— 361b and under .... 6S 37-421b 6i — Seconds avge 281b . . 6 6 4 Frozen Beef, Australian— Ox crops under 1001b — 2} Ox hinds over 1601b — 34 C hilled Beef. Argentine— Ox fores 160-2201b 3f 34 Ox hinds 160-2201b .. 51 41 Frozen Fork. New Zealand— Firsts 60-801b 65 — 81-1001b 55 52 Firsts 101-1201b 51 51 Australian— Firsts 60-1 001b (average 801b) 61 — Firsts 101-1201b .... 51 — Babbits. First large, ex store .. 1-7/6 17/-