FROZEN MEAT TRADE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 11, 14 January 1936, Page 11

FROZEN MEAT TRADE

LAMB IN BETTER DEMAND MUTTON MARKET QUIET .Lamb Market: First quality easier owing to heavy Australian arrivals, but demand has improved at the lower prices; second quality remain* steady and unchanged. Mutton market: Lightweight wethers remain firm with heavyweights slightly easier; ewes, market quiet and unchanged. Beef market: Frozen beef steady. New Zealand porker pigs: Lightweights easier owing to increased, supplied. and also lower prices. Homekilled; heavy weights unchanged. New Zealand baconer 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 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 par* cels 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 New Zealand Sheep. Canterbury and North Island selected crossbred wethers and maiden ewes: 481 b. and under, sfd. (same); 481 b. to 561 b., 5 3-Bd. (5 3-Bd., 5Jd.); 571 b to 641 b„ 4 7-Sd. (5d., sd); 651 b. to 721 b., 4 5-Bd. 4£d.). North Island: 481 b. to 561 b., sjd. (same); 571 b. to 641 b., 4 7-Bd. (5d., 5d.); 651 b to 721 b., 4 5-Bd. (43d., 43d.). Ewes: 481 b. and under, 3 5-Sd. (3 5-Bd., 3|d); 481 b. to 641 b., 33d (3{d., 3 l-8d.); 65Lb. to 721 b., 3d. (3d., 2 7-Bd.). New Zealand lamb* (new season’s). —Canterbury: Not quoted. North Islands downs, 361 b. and under, Bd. (Sid., 37lb to 421 b, Bd. (83d., BAd.); 431 b. to 501 b., (not quoted), second quality, average about 301 b., 7 5-Bd. (7 5-Bd., 7Jd.); North Island, first quality: 361 b. and under, 7 7-Bd. (8d.,); 371 b. to; 7 7-Sd. (Bd., Bid.); second quality, av-

crage about 3.11 b., 7Ad. (7Ad., not quoted). Australian Lambs.—Victorian, firs quality (new season’s): 361 b. and un dor, 7jd. (7jd., 7Ad.); 371 b. to 421 b., 6 5-Sd. (Gid., 7d.). Argentine Lambf. —First quality (new season’s): 3Glb. and under, 6 7-Sd. (6 7-Bd., 7d.); 371 b., to 421 b., 6 3-Sd. (G 3-Sd., Gjd.). New Zealand frozen beef.—Ox hinds, 1451 b. to 2101 b., 33d. (same); ox fores 1451 b. to 2101 b. 23d (2Ad., 2Ad.). New Zealand Chilled Beef. —Not quoted. Argentine Chilled Beef.—Ox hinds, 1451 b. to 2101 b., 5 5-Sd. (sjd., 53d.); ox fores, 1451 b. to 2101 b. 23d (2Ad. 2 7-Sd.). Uruguayan Chilled Beef. —Ox hinds. 1451 b, to 2101 b., 5 3-Bd. (5d., SLJ.); ox fores, 1451 b. to 2101 b., 25-8 d (2 3-BJ. 2Zd.;. Australian Frozen Beef.—Ox hindiE, 1451 b. to 2101 b., 3 7-Sd. (same) ox crops, weights corresponding, 2 5-Sd. (same). Australian Chilled Beef.—Ox hinds, 1451 b. to 2101 b., 4U. (4Jd., 5d.); ox crops, weights corresponding, 2Zd. (2 3-Bd., 2 3-Bd.). Union of South Africa Chilled Beef. —Not quoted. Southern Rhodesian Chilled Beef.— Ox hinds, 1451 b. to 2101 b. 4jd. (4d., (not quoted); ox foree, 1451 b. to 2101 b., 2}d. (2 1-B'l., not quoted). New Zealand Porker Pigs. —First quality: 601 b. to 801 b., 7d. (7id., 7}d.); 811 b. to 1001 b., 6 5-Bd. (Bid., 6}d.); 1011 b., to 1201 b., 6d. (6d., 6d.). New Zealand Prime Baconer Pigs. 1211 b, to 1601 b., sid (54d., 5»d.). Beef Market Dull. Compared with the previous week’s quotations, down lamb, l-8d per lb. lower; crossbred lambs, 361 b. to 431 b., 1-Sd. per lb. lower; wethers, 481 b. to 721 b., l-Bd. per lb. higher; ewes, 481 b. to 561 b., 1-Sd. per lb. lower; beef, l-Bd. per lb. lower. Others unchanged. The above report was received on Saturday by Levin and Co., Ltd., from their London agents, who quote Smithfield “delivered” prices as follow: — North Island down lambs: 2Slb. to 361 b., Gd. per lb; 361 b to 421 b. Bd. Best Sorth Island crossbred lambs: 281 b to 361 b., 7 7-Sd; 361 b to 421 b., 7|d. North

Island second quality lambs, average, 301 b. to 311 b., 7Jd. Best North Lland wether sheep: Under 481 b., sjd.; 481 b. to 561 b., 5 3-Sd; 561 b. to 641 b. 5 l-8d; 641 b to 721 b. 4 7-Bd. North Island ewes: Under 481 b., 3 5-8 d; 481 b. to 561 b. 3}d 561 b to 641 b 3 l-8d; 641 b to 721 b., 3d. New Zealand prime ox beef; 1601 b. to 2201 b., 3d. The Bank c-f New Zealand, produce department, has received the following advice from its London office as at close of business last week:— The market for wethers as quiet and unchanged. There is little business doing In ewes. The reduction in prices has improved the demand for lambs, and the market is steady. The market for beef i, dull. Trade generally is slow. Wethers: Light. sd. to 6d. per lb.; heavy, 3Jd. to 4jd. Ewes: 2jd. to 3jd. Lambs: 2's, 7Jd. to Sd.; B’s, 7Jd. to 8d; seconds, 7fd. to 7Jd. Beef: Ox hinds, 3 3-84, to 3 5-Bd.; fores, 2 l-Bd. to 2 3-Bd.