FROZEN MEAT
THE LONDON MARKET OVER-SUPPLIES CONTINUE The lamb market is weaker. Oversupplies uf meat; of all descriptions continue. Mutton market: Wethers steady. Ewes, lightweight, steady. Ewes, heavyweight, easier. Beef market: Very little interest taken in frozen beef owing to low prices of Argentine chilled beef. New Zealand porker pigs': Market quiet and unchanged. New Zealand baconer pigs. Nominal. The above report has been received by the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board from its London office under date July 29, which advises that the following arc 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 Mar-
ket and/or ex London stores: — (Prices for the two previous weeks are shown in parentheses). New Zealand Sheep.—Canterbury and North Island crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, 48 to 561 b., 33d (3$ I and 3id); 57 to 641 b., 3 l-8d (3 l-8d and 3d); 65 to 721 b., 27-8 d (2 7-8 d and 27-8 d); selected North Island. 48 to 561 b., 3 3-8 d (3 3-8 d and 3 3-8 d); 57 to 641 b.. 3d (3 and 3d); 65 to 721 b., 2id (27-8 d and 27-8 d); ewes, 481 b. and under, 2Ad and 24d); 48 to 641 b., 2>d (2jd and 23-8 d); 65 to 721 b., 2 l-8d (2Jd and 2id).
New Zealand Lambs.—Canterbury, 361 b. and under. (5Jd and 5 5-8 d); 37 to 421 b., 5 l-8d (5 3-8 d and 5 5-8 d); 43 to 501 b., 5 l-8d (5 3-8 d and 5L1); second quality, average 331 b., 4 7-8 d (5d and 5 1.-8 d); other South Island brands, 361 b. and under, 5d (s}d and 5 3-8 d); 37 to 421 b., 5d (si‘d and 5 3-8 d); 43 to 501 b., 5d (5Jd and 5 3-8 d); selected North Island brands, including Downs, 361 b. and under, s}d (5Jd and 5 5-8 d); 37 to 421 b., 5 l-8d and 5 5-8 d); 43 to 501 b., 5 l-8d and s£d); second quality, average 31 lb., 4 7-8 d (5d and 5 l-8d); other North Island brands, first quality, 36 lb. and under, 5d (5 1-Sd and 5Jd); 37 to 421 b., 5a l-8d and s|d); second quality, average 311 b., 4Jd (5d and 5 LBd). Australian Lambs. —Victorian, first quality, 361 b. and under, 4 5-8 d (4jd and 4Jd); 37 to 421 b., 4 5-8 d (4Jd and 4td). Argentine Lamb. —First quality, 36 lb. and under, 4Jd (4Jd and 4 5-8 d); 37 to 421 b., 4-}d (4M and 4 5-8 d). New Zealand Beef.—Ox fores, 2Jd (2sd and 2sd); ox hinds, 3 3-8 d (3 3-Sd and 3Jd); cow fores, not quoted; cow hinds, not quoted. Agentine Chilled Beef.—Ox fores, 24d (2Jd and 2d - ); ox hinds, s|d (4jd and 4sd). Australian Frozen Beef.—Ox crops, over 1001 b., 2{d (2}d and 23-8 d); ox hinds, over 1601 b., (3Jd and 3|d). New Zealand Prime Porker Pigs.— 60 to 1001 b., 4id (44d and 4*d); 101 to 1201 b., 4Jd (4sd and 4|d). New Zealand Prime Baconer Pigs.— 121 to 1801 b., 5d (5d and sd). New Zealand Frozen Veal. —Not quoted.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 179, 1 August 1932, Page 9
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