FROZEN MEAT TRADE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 242, 13 October 1936, Page 11

FROZEN MEAT TRADE

Lamb Market Very Firm MUTTON EASIER Lamb market: Very firm with prices slightly better. Consumption, satisfactory for the time of year. Mutton market: Wethers dull and slightly easier. Ewes: Market quiet and unchanged. Beef market: Frozen beef market steady and unchanged. Chilled beef weaker owing to heavy supplies of home-killed. New Zealand porker pigs: Market firm with good trade. New Zealand baconer pigs: Nominal. 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 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 (he two previous weeks are also shown: — New Zealand sheep: Canterbury and North Island selected crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, 481 b and under, 5 l-8d (sid, 51d); 481 b to 561 b, 4 5-8 d (43d, 43d); 571 b to 641 b, 4id (same); 651 b to 721 b, 4 3-8 d (same). North Island, 481 b to 561 b, 4 5-8 d (43d, 43d); 571 b to 641 b, 4id (same); 651 b to 721 b, 4 3-8 d (same). Ewes, 481 b and under, 41d (4id, 4 3-8 d); 481 b to 641 b, 4d (same); 651 b to 721 b, 3 7-8 d (same). New Zealand lambs: Canterbury, 361 b and under, 7 3-8 d (7id, 7id);

371 b to 421 b, 7id (7 l-Bd, 7 l-8d); 431 b to 501 b, 6 5-8 d (6Jd, 6Jd). Second quality, average about 311 b, 7d (same). Other South Island. 361 b and under, 7 3-8 d (71d, 7id); 371 b to 421 b, 7ld (same); 431 b to 501 b, 6 5-8 d (6id, 6Jd). North Island Downs. 361 b 1 and under, 71d (7 3-Bd, 7 3-8 d); 371 b to 421 b, 7id (same); 431 b to 501 b, ■ 6 5-8 d (6id, Gid). Second quality, average about 301 b, 7ld (same). North Island, first quality, 361 b and under, 7 l-8d (same); 371 b to 421 b, 7 l-8d (same). Second quality, average about 311 b, 6 7-8 d (same). Argentine lambs: First quality (new season’s), 361 b and under, 7d (same); 371 b to 421 b, 6id (same). New Zealand frozen beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 37 cl (same); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 2Sd (same). New Zealand chilled beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, not quoted (5 3-Bd, not quoted); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, not quoted (23d, not quoted). Argentine chilled beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 5 5-8 d (6d, 6d); ox fores. 1451 b to 2101 b, 3 l-8d (3 l-Bd, 3d). Uruguayan chilled beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, sid (5 5-Bd, 51d); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 27-8 d (2,d, 25-8 d). Australian frozen beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3 7-8 d (same); ox crops, weights corresponding, 27-8 d (same). Australian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 4 7-8 d (5 l-Bd, 5 l-8d); ox crops, weights corresponding, 2 7-8 d (21d, 25-8 d). Union of South Africa chilled beel: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 54d (not quoted); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 2 7-Sd (not quoted). Southern Rhodesian chilled beef: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 4 7-8 d (51d, sd); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 25-8 d (2id, 23-8 d). New Zealand porker pigs: First quality, 601 b to 801 b, 61d (same); 811 b to 1001 b, 61d (same); 1011 b to 1201 b, 6 3-8 d (sarrfe). New Zealand prime baconer pigs: 1211 b to 1601 b, 6Jd (same). LONDON RETAIL PRICES The New Zealand Meat Producers Board has been advised by its London manager, that the following retail prices were being quoted for New Zealand lamb and mutton retailed in London during September, 1936. These prices represent a fair average of the prices quoted by the betterclass shops in London for the best quality of New Zealand lamb and muttor: New Zealand Lamb Per lb. d Legs - - Shoulders - 11 Loins - 11 Necks 6 Breasts 3 Forequarters - 84 Hindquarters - 11= New Zealand Mutton (wethers) Legs 9 Shoulders - - 8 Loins 8 Necks 4 Breasts - - -