FROZEN MEAT TRADE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 148, 26 June 1934, Page 9

FROZEN MEAT TRADE

MEAT BOARD’S REPORT. LAMB EASIER, MUTTON STEADY. Lamb Market: Slightly easier, chiefly owing to extremely hot weather lessening demand for meat of all descriptions. Mutton market: Wethers firm owing to short spot, stocks. Ewes quiet with prices unchanged. Beef market: Demand slow owing to low prices of Argentine chilled beef. New Zealand porker pigs: Small demand owing to hot weather. New Zealand bayonet pigs: Market steady and unchanged. The above report was received on Saturday by the Meat Board from its London office, which advises that the following are thcapproximate averages prices 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. Prives for the two previous weeks arc also shown: New Zealand Sheep.—Canterbury and North Island selected crossbred wethers and maiden ewes: 481 b. to 561 b., 5Jd (s|d, ssd); 571 b. to 641 b., 5-}d (s:}d, 5 18d); 651 b to 721 b.. 5d (4 7 Bd, 4 5-8 d); North Island selected crossbred wethers and maiden ewes: 481 h to 561 b, 5 5-8 d (5 5-Bd, s}d); 571 b. to 641 b., s}d (s|d, sd); 641 b. to 721 b., 5d (4 78(1, 4 5-8 d). Ewes: 481 b. and under. 4-ld (4}d, 4 3-8 d); 481 b. to 641 b.. 3 7-8 d (3 7-Bd, 3sd); 651 b. to 721 b., 3}d (3}d. 3 3-8 d). New Zealand Lambs. —Canterbury: 361 b. and under, 74d (7Jd. 7?d); 371 b. to 421 b., 7 l-8d (same); 431 b. to 501 b., G?-d (6 7-Bd. 6sd); second quality, average, 321 b., 7 3-Sd (7-kl. 7|d). Other South Island brands: 361 b. and under, 74d (7sd. 7S<3); 371 b. to 421 b., 7 l-8d (same); 431 b. to 501 b., 6Jd (6 7-Bd, 6sd). Selected North Island brands: 361 b. and under, 7 5-8 d (7’ld. 7|d); 371 b. to 421 b., 7 1-8 d (7-J-d, 7Jd); 431 b. to 501 b., 6Jd (6 7-Bd, 6Jd); second quality, average 321 b., 7 3-Sd (7Ad, 7|d). Other North Island brands, first quality: 361 b. and under, 7 3-8 d (7|d, 7 5-8 d); 371 b. to 421 b., 7d (same): second quality, average 321 b., 7.|d (7 3-Bd, 7 3-8 d). Australian Lambs.—Victorian, quality, 361 b. and under, 7 3-8 d (same); 371 b. to 421 b., 6Jd (same). Argentine Lambs. —First quality: 361 b. and under. 7|d (same); 371 b. to 42Jb.. 6|d (same). New Zealand Beef.—Ox fores, 2|d (same); nx hinds, 3 3-8 d (same); vow fores and binds, not quoted. Argentine Chilled Beef.—Ox fores, 3d (3 l-Bd, 3 l-8d); ox hinds, 5d (6{-d, 54d). Australian Frozen Beef. —Ox crops, over 1001 b.. 2Jd (2fd, 25-8 d); ox hinds, over 1601 b.. 3|d (same). New Zealand prime porker pigs: 60Jb. to 801 b.. 6d (6VI. 6Jd); 811 b. to 1001 b.. s?d (6d. 6d); 1011 b., to 1201 b., 54d (5 5-Bd. ssd). Now Zealand baconer pigs: 1291 b. to 1601 b.. 5 5-8 d (same). New Zealand frozen veal: Not quoted.