FROZEN MEAT TRADE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 283, 3 December 1935, Page 11

FROZEN MEAT TRADE

LIGHTWEIGHT LAMB FIRM BEEF MARKET (DULL Lamb market: Good quality lightweights arc scarce and lirin, other descriptions easier. Mutton market: Lightweight wetOiers and ewes; market quiet and steady, other descriptions easier, owing to small demand. Beef market: Frozen beef market dull, with very little business doing. N.Z. porker pigs: Prices have advanced slightly owing to good demand and shortage of spot stocks, but tendency easier at close of business. New Zealand baconcr pigs; Market quiet and unchanged. The above report was received on Satutrday by the Meat Board from its London office, which advises that the following are the approximate average prices realised for the week ended November 29, based on actual transactions of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of meat mentioned and are for the 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 previous weeks are also shown: — New Zealand sheep: Canterbury and North Island selected crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, 481 b and under, s}d (same); 481 b to 561 b, 4 5-Sd (4 5-Bd, 4 7-8 d); 571 b to 641 b, 4Ad (4 5-Bd, 4£d); 651 b to 721 b, 4 3-8 d (4Ad, 4 5-8 d). North’’lsland: 481 b to 561 b, 4 5-8 d (4 5-Bd, 4^d); 571 b to 641 b, 4Ad (4 5-Bd, 4id)’; 651 b to 721 b, 4 3-8(1 4 5-8 d). Ewes: 481 b and under. 3d (3d, 3 l-8d); 481 b to 641 b, 25-8 d (2. 5-Bd, 2fd); 651 b .to 721 b, 23-8 d (2Ad, 2id). New Zealand lambs: -Canterbury, 361 b and under, 7jd (same); 371 b to 421 b, 7 3-8 d (7Ad, 7Ad); 431 b to 501 b, 7d (7d, 7 l-8d); 2nd quality, average about 311 b (not quoted), 7 .. l-Bd, 1 l-8d). Other South Island, 361 b and under, 7id (7 7-Bd, 7 7-8 d); 371 b to 421 b, 7Ad (7|d, 7fd); 431 b to 501 b (not quoted), (7d, 7 1-Sd). North Island (not quoted). Australian lambs; Victorian Ist quality (new season’s), 361 b and under, 7i(d (same); ditto, Ist quality (new season’s), 371 b to 421 b, 7d (7{d, 7sd). Argentine lambs: First quality (new season’s), 36.1 b and under, 6Jd (7d, 7d); ditto (new season’s), 371 b to 421 b, 6Ad (6 5-Bd, 6j|d). Now Zealand frozen beef; Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3fd (same); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 2id (2 5-Bd, 25-8 d). New Zealand chilled beef; Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b (not quoted), (4Ad, 4 3-8 d); ox fores, .1451 b to 2101 b (uot quoted), (2|d, 2Ad). Argentine chilled beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, spl (5Ad, sjd); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3d (2 7-Bd, 2pl). Uruguayan chilled beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 5 l-8d (sjd, sd); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 27-8 d (~’pl, 25-8 d). Australian frozen beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3 7-8 d (same) : ox crops, weights corresponding, 25-8 d (2 5-Bd, 2pJ). Australian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b (not quoted), (4Ad, 4Ad); ox crops, weights corresponding (not quoted), (2 5-Bd, 2Ad). Union of {South Africa chilled beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b (not quoted), (sd, -lid) ; ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b (not quoted), (2 5-Sd, 2Ad). Southern Rhodesian chilled beef: Ox hinds. 1451 b to 2101 b, (4pl, 3 7-Sd); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 2id (2 3-Bd, 2 1-Sd). New Zealand porker pigs: First quality, 601 b to 801 b, 6Jd (6 5-Bd, 6Ad); 811 b to 1001 b, GAd (6 3-Bd, Bid); 1011 b to 1201 b, 6|d (6 1-Sd, 6 l-8d). New Zealand prime baconer pigs: 1211 b to 1601 b,