FROZEN MEAT TRADE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 221, 18 September 1934, Page 9

FROZEN MEAT TRADE

♦ LAMB MARKET EASIER MUTTON PRICES LOWER Lamb market: Heavier marketing , Home-killed, together with hot weather, rather affecting demand. Prices of second quality and heavy prime lamb slightly lower. Mutton market: wethers and ewes, prices ’easier owing to heav- f ier arrivals. Beef market: Trade slow i owing to lower prices of Argentine chilled beef. New Zealand porker pigs: f Weather has affected demand and i prices shade easier. New Zealand bac- 1 oner pigs: Market firm owing to short ( spot stocks. s The above report was received on ] Saturday by the Meat Board from its i London office, which advises that the ( following arc the approximate average ( prices realised for the week , ended .September 14, based on actual transac- c lions 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. Prices for the two f previous weeks are also shown:— New Zealand sheep: Canterbury and 7 North Island selected crossbred wethers / and maiden ewes, 481 b. to 561 b., 5 3-Sd. s3d); 571 b. to 641 b., s|d (same); c 651 b, to 721 b., 5,1. (5 1-B<l.. 5 l-8d). ( North Island, 481 b. to 561 b., s|d. (5 3-Sd., 5 3-8(1). ; 571 b. to 641 b.. 53d. t (same); 651 b. to 721 b., sd. (same). 1 Ewes, 481 b. and under, 4|d. (4 3-Bd., 4 f 3-Sd.) ; 481 b. to 641 b., 3 7-Bd. (4d.. 4d); 651 b. to 721 b., 33d. (same). ] New Zealand lambs: Canterbury, 361 b. and under, 7}d. (same); 371 b. to 421 b., 6 7-Bd. (same); 431 b. to 501 b 6 l-Bd. (6|d.. 6 3-8 d.); second quality, s average 321 b., 6sd. (63d. 6 5-Sd. Other b