LONDON MARKET

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 88, 9 April 1934, Page 7

LONDON MARKET

SMITHFIELD PRICES FROZEN MEAT QUOTATIONS The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Soard has received the following cable from its London office dated April 6, advising that the following are 1 approximate average prices realised fot he week, bused on actual transactions »f wholesale quantities 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 »rores:—

New Zealand sheep, Canterbury ano North Island crossbred wethers and maiden ewes 48/56 5 3-8 d; 57/64 4 7-8 d; 65/72 4-ld. New Zealand selected North T«land •rossbred wethers and maiden ewes 48/56 5 3-8 d; 57/64 4 7-8 d; 65/72 4 3-Bd. New Zealand Ewr« 4-S/nnder 4 l-8d; 48/64 3 5-8 d; 65/72 3 l-Bd. New Zealand Canterbury iambs. 36/ under 7-Jd; 37/42.7 l-8d; 43/50 6.5-8 d; second quality, average 32, 7d. Other South Island brands. 36/under 7 3-8 d; 37/42 7d; 43/50 6 5-Bd. New Zealand lambs, including selected North Island brand®, 36/n n <ler 74d; 37/42 7 l-8d; 43/50 6 5-8 d; second quality, average 32, 7 l-Bd. Other North Island brands, first qunlity 36/under 7 l-4d; 37/42 7d; second quality average 32, 7d. Australian lambs, Victorian, Ist quality 36/under 6 3-8 d; 3-9 d. Argentine lamb, let quality, 36/unde

64d; 37/42 6 l-4d. New Zealand ox fores, 2 l-8d; ox hinds 3 l-Bd. rm’iinne chilled beef, ox fores, 3 l-4d; ox hinds 4 5-Bd. Australian Frozen beef, ox crops, 0/100 2sd; ox hinds, 0/160 3 3-Bd. N.Z. prime porker pigs, 60/80 5 l-4d; 81/100 5 l-8d; 101/120 5 l-Bd. N.Z. Baconer pigs 120/160 6d. N.Z. Frozen veal not quoted . Lamb: Prices shade easier, owing to buyers having filled immediate requirements but tone of market good and consumption satisfactory. Mutton Market: Wethers, trade slow and prices slightly easier except for lightweights. Ewes, meeting with fair demand. ? Beef Market: Demand quiet owing to continued low prices Argentine chilled beef. N.Z. Porker Pigs: Meeting with good trade but at lower prices. N.Z. Baconer Pigs: Demand steady for small supplies available.