FROZEN MEAT TRADE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 110, 11 May 1936, Page 11

FROZEN MEAT TRADE

I/ONDON MARKET BULL Lambs: The demand is moderate, with prices a little lower. Wethers: The market is dull, with little business doing. Ewes: Lower prices expected in the near future, owing to larger supplies arriving. Beef: Only a limited business has been done at more or less nominal values. Pork: The demand is falling off. Trade slow generally. The above report was received yesterday by Henry 8. Fitter and Sons Ltd. from their London office, which quotes prices as follow: New Zealand lambs, Down, 2’s, 7 3-8 d to 7.5-Bd. Secondary lambs, 2’s, 7Jd to 7£d; B’s, 6 5-8 d to 6|d; 4’s, 6}d to 6 3-Bd. Secondary lambs, d to 7{d. New Zealand mutton, small, 4 3-8 d to 5 l-8d; large, 3 5-8 d to -Id. New Zealand ewes, small, 4 3-8 d to 4 5-8 d; large, 3}d to 4d. New Zealand beef, ox hinds (frozen), 33d to 41-8 d: ox fores (frozen), 23-8 d to 2 5-Bd. IDominion chilled hinds and fores not quoted. South American ehillea hinds, 4d to 5Ad; fores, 2fd to 3Jd. New Zealand pork, 5d to 54d. Australian lambs, s|d to 7d. Argentine lambs, 54d to 7d.