N.Z. MEAT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 255, 28 October 1939, Page 8

N.Z. MEAT

BRITISH PURCHASE Minister Announces Prices GENERALLY BASED ON 1938 FIGURES [ Per Frets A-socialion.J WELLINGTON. Oct. 27. Prices* at which the United Kingdom Government has agreed to purchase quantities of the coming season’s New Zealand meat, were announced by the Minister of Marketing. Hon. W. Nash, in a broadcast address this evening. “These prices can be considered as very satisfactory indeed," the Minister said. "They arc better than last year’s prices and are generally based on the 1938 figures, with some modifications helpful to New Zealand." Mr. Nash emphasised that the prices were f.o.b. in sterling. New Zealand would be paid for the meat at the stage that it was put on board ship. There were one or two final details yet to be settled as to what the charges from the farm gate through the various channels to on board ship would be. nor had it been finally setteled what the price of by-products would be. Hence it was difficult to state definitely how the figures would work out per head in New Zealand currency on the various classes oi stock. The figures, however, would give a clear indication to farmers as to what they might expect for their fat stock for the coming season. The scale of agreed prices is:— LAME.

Porkers, 60-lOOlb.. 16-25 p* i cent, the total export; baconers. 101-18*11 75 per cent, of total export.

i.Z. CurSterling. rency. d. d. Prime Dow n C ross— Twos 6 3-S 7.93 Eights 6 5-16 8.85 Fours .. . 61-8 7.62 Tegs 5 5-8 « Prime Canterbury Quality— Twos 5 5-16 7.85 Eights 6 3-16 Fours 6 Tegs 51 6.84 Prime Crossbred — Twos 6 3-16 7 7 Eights 6 1-8 7.6 Fours 5 7-8 7.3 Tegs 5; 6.53 Second Quality 361b. & under 5 7-8 7.3 Over 361b. 5i 6.85 MUTTON. Prime Wethers and Maiden Ewes— 481b. & under 4 5-16 5.36 49-56ib 3 7-8 4.82 57-641b. 311-16 4.o8 65-721b. 31 4.35 Over 721b. _. 3 3.73 Second Quality— Wethers: 561b. & under 311-16 4.58 Over 561b. 3 3-8 1.2 Ewes: 641b. & under 24 3.42 Over 641b. 2 3-8 2.95 BEEF. Boneless ox beef 34 4.66 Boneless bull beef 5 5-8 4.51 Boneless cow beef 3 5-8 4.51 Boneless bobby veal 4 1-8 5.15 Ox ana Heifer Beef. G.A.Q., 145-21011). Hinds 4 3-8 •).44 Fores 2 0-16 3.19 Over and unders usual terms. Ox and Heifer Beef. F.A.Q., all weights— Hinds 3 7-16 4.27 Fores 24 3.11 Cow Beef. G.A.Q., all weight-.— Hinds 34 4.1 Fores 2 7-16 3.1 PIGS. Porkers an 1 Baeoners— 1st quality 6 7.46 2nd quality 5. 7.15