FROZEN MEAT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 449, 15 December 1930, Page 9

FROZEN MEAT

THE LONDON MARKET The New Zealand Meat Producers Board has received the following cable from its London Office, dated December 12, advising 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 ex London stores. Prices for the two previous weeks are also shown. New Zealand, Canterbury and crossbred wethers 48/56 5 l-Bd, North Island and maiden ewes 57/64 sd, selected 65/75 sd, North Island and maiden owes 48/56 sd, 57/64 4 7-8 d„ 65/72 4 7-Bd, ewes 48/64 31d, 65/72 3 l-Bd. New Zealand lambs, Canterbury, 36/ under 8? 2 d, 37/42 8 3-Bd, 43/50 7 5-Bd, 43/50 7 5-Bd, second quality, average 331bs 7 5-Bd, other South Island brands 36/under BJd, 37/42 B|d, 43/50 7 5-Bd, including Downs, selected North Island brands 36/under 84d, 37/42 B}d, 43/50 7 5-8. Australian lambs, Victorian iirst quality (new season’s) 36Tbs and under, <S3-8d; (new season’s) 371bs to 421b5., 8 l-Bd. Argentine Lamb, first quality, (new season’s), 361bs and under, 8d; first quality (new season’s) 37 to 421b5., 7|d. New Zealand beef, ox fores, 3Jd; New Zealand ox hinds, 4jd. Argentine chilled beef, ox fores, 4Jd, 4|d, 4|d; ox hinds, 6£d, 5Jd, 5Jd. Australian frozen beef, ox crops, over 100, 3Jd, 3 7-Bd, 4d; ox hinds, over 160 lbs. 4sd, 4 7-Bd, 5 l-Bd. N.Z. prime porker pigs, 60 to lOOlbs., Sd. Bd, 8d; 101 to 1201b5., 64d, 6|d, 6sd. N.Z. prime baconer pigs, 121 to 1801bs., 6}d, 6Jd, 6sd. Lambs.—Market is steady. Arrivals new season’s Australian and South American lamb going into consumption steadily, but heavier landings expected within the next week or two. Mutton market.—Wethers easier through pressure to sell. Ewes, lightweights steady and unchanged. . but market slightly easier for heavyweights. N.Z. beef. —Market is quiet with poor demand. N.Z. Porker Pigs.—There is a fair demand for lightweights, but trade slow for heavyweights owing to heavy arrivals of Home killed. N.Z. Baconer Pigs.—Nominal prices.