FROZEN MEAT TRADE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 209, 4 September 1934, Page 9

FROZEN MEAT TRADE

PRIME LAMB FIRM WETHERS SLIGHTLY EASIER Lamb market: Steady, with cooler weather improving consumption. Second quality lamb easier owing to increased marketing of Home-killed Scotch hill lambs. Mutton market: Wethers slightly easier owing to heavier arrivals. Ewes, firm owing to short stocks. Beef market: Trade slow. N .Z. porker pigs: Firmer, owing to short spot stocks. N.Z. baconer pigs: steady. The above report was received on Saturday by the Meat Board from its London office, which advises that the following are the approximate average prices realised for the week ended August 31, based on actual transactions of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of meat mentioned, and are for representative parcels of tae goods offering during the week, being for business done on the basis of delivered to Smithfield market and/or ex London stores. Prices for the two previous weeks are also shown. - New Zealand sheep: Canterbury and North Island selected crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, 481 b. _to 561 b., s|d. (same); 571 b. to 641 b., aid. (5 3-Bd., 5 3-8 d.); 651 b. to 721 b., 5 l-Bd. (same); North Island do., 481 b. to 561 b., 5 3-Bd. (5Jd., s7lb. to 641 b., s(d (5 3-Bd., 5 3-8 d.); 651 b. to 721 b., sd. (5d., 5 l-8d.); ewes, 481 b. and under, 4 3-Bd. (same); 481 b. to 641 b., 4d. (same); 651 b. to 721 b., 3Jd. (same). New Zealand lambs: Canterbury, 361 b. and under. 7}d. (same); 371 b., to 421 b., 6 7-Bd. (6 7-Bd., 6|d.); 431 b. to 501 b., 6 3-Bd. (same); second quality, average 321 b., 6 5-Bd. (6£d., 6 7-8 d.); other South Island brands, 361 b. and under, 7 l-Bd. (same); 371 b. to 421 b., 6 7-Bd. (6 7-B<J., 6-Jd.); 431 b. to 501 b., 6 3-Bd. (same); selected North Island brands, 361 b. and under, 7 3-Bd. (same); 371 b. to 421 b., 6 7-Bd. (same); 431 b. to 501 b., 6 3-80. (same); second quality, average 321 b., 6}d. (6 7-Bd., 7d.); other North Island brands, first quality, 361 b. and under, 7d. (same); 371b.,'t0 421 b., 6}d. (same); second quality, average 321 b., 6|d. (6 5-80., G3d -)- ■ r r Australian lambs: Aictorian, iiist quality, 361 b. and under, 6 3-Bd. (6jd., G 5-8 d.); 371 b. to 421 b., 6jd. (same). Argentine lambs: 3Gib. and under, 6|d. (6 7-Bd., 7d.); 371 b. to 421 b., 6}d. (same). New Zealand beef: Ox fores, 2 3-Bd. (2|d., 2Jd.); ox hinds, 3{d. (same); cow fores and cow hinds, not quoted. Argentine chilled beef: Ox fores. 3 3-Bd. (3d., 3}d.); ox hinds, 6Jd- (6 l-Bd., 64d.). Australian frozen beef: Ox crops, over 1001 b., 2 5-Bd. (same); ox hinds, over 1601 b., 3|d. (3 3-Bd., 3 3-Bd.). New Zealand prime porker pigs: 601 b. to 801 b.. 6Jd. (6}d., 6Jd.); 811 b. to 1001 b., 6}d. (6d., 6d.); 1011 b. to 1201 b., 6}d. (5 7-Bd., 5Jd.). New Zealand baconer nigs: 1201 b. to 1601 b., 6 l-Bd. (6jd.. sjd.).