LONDON MARKET

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 126, 23 May 1932, Page 6

LONDON MARKET

SMITHFIELD PRICES FROZEN MEAtf QUOTATIONS The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has received the following cable from its London Office dated May 20, advising that the following are approximate average prices realised for the week, based on actual transactions of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of meat mentioned and arc 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: —

New Zealand sheep, Canterbury and North Island crossbred wethers and maiden ewes 48/56 3|d; 57/64 3 Id; 3 3-Bd.

New Zealand selected North Island crossbred, wethers and maiden ewes 48/56 3 5-8 d; 57/64 3 3-8(1; 65/72 3 3-Sd.

New Zealand Ewes 48/undcr 3 l-4d; 48/64 2|d; 65/72 2Jd. New Zealand Canterbury lambs, 36/ under 6 5-8 d; 37/42 6 l-8d; 43/50 6d; second quality, average 33, 5 7-Bd. Other South Island brands, 36/under 61d; 37/42 6 l-8d; 43/50 6d. New Zealand lambs, including selected North Island brands, 36/under 6|d; 37/42 6 l-4d; 43/50 6d; second. quality, average 31, 5 7-Bd. Other North Island brands, first quality, 36/under 6 l-4d; 37/42 6d; second quality, average 31, s|d. Victorian lambs, first quality, 36/ under s|d; 37/42 5Jd« Argentine lamb, Ist quality, 36/under 5 3-8 d; 37/42 5 l-Bd. Argentine chilled beef, ox fores, 3 7-8 d; ox hinds s|d.

N.Z. prime porker pigs, 60/100 5 3-8 d; 101/120 sd. N.Z. Prime Baconer Pigs 121/180 sd. Lamb Market slightly easier, but consumption is improving with better weather. Mutton Market: Wethers meeting with more enquiry at lower prices. Ewes slightly easier in view of heavier arrivals. New Zealand Beef: Stocks exhausted.

New Zealand Porker Pigs: Trade slow owing to warm weather.

New Zealand Baconer Pigs: Nominal