LONDON MARKET

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 120, 16 May 1932, Page 6

LONDON MARKET

SMITHFIELD PRICES

FROZEN MEAT QUOTATIONS

The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has received the following cable from its London Office dated May 13, advising that the following aro the approximate average prices realised for tho week, based on actual transactions of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of meat mentioned and are for representative parcels of the goods offering during tho week, being for business done on the basis of delivered to Smithfield Market and/or ex London stores: — New Zealand sheep, Canterbury and North Island crossbred wethers and maiden ewes 48/56 4d; 57/64 3 5-8 d; 65/72 3|d. New Zealand selected North Island crossbred wethers and maiden ewes 48/56 3|d; 57/64 34d- 65/72 3LI. New Zealand ewes 48/uncler 3 3-8 d; 48/64 2 7-8(1; 65/72 2 5-Bd. New Zealand Canterbury lambs, 36/ under, 6}d:; 37/42 6 3-8 d; 43/50 6 l-8d; second, quality, average 33, 6 l-Bd. Other South Island brands, u/36 6 5-8(1; 37/42 6 1-4(1; 43/50 6 l-Bd. New Zealand lambs, including selected North Island brands, 36/undcr 6 7-8 d; 37/42 6UI; 43/50 6 l-8d; second quality, average 31, 6 l-Bd. Other North Island brands, first quality 36/under 64d; 37/42 6 l-4d; second quality, average 31, '5 7-Bd. Victorian lambs, first quality, u/36 60; 37/42 51d. Argentine lamb, Ist quality, 36/under 5 5-8 d; 37/42 5 l-Bd. Argentine chilled beef, ox fores, 41d; ox hinds, 61d. N.Z. prime porker pigs, 60/100 51 d; 101/120 5 l-Bd. N.Z. Prime Baeoncr Pigs 121/180 sd. Lamb Market is now steady with better tone. Lower prices tending to increase consumption. Mutton Market: Wethers slightly easier with trade slow. Ewes, prices easier, hut meeting with fair demand. N.Z. Beef: None available. Argentine chilled beef shows improvement. Now Zealand Porker Pigs: Trade slow.

New Zealand Baconcr Pigs: Nominal