MEAT IN BRITAIN

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20465, 4 April 1938, Page 14

MEAT IN BRITAIN

FROZEN OR CHILLED LAMB MARKET FIRMER LATEST SMITHFIELD QCOTATIONS The Smithfield market for lambs Ip firmer with slightly better prices for some grades. Consumption is excellent for this time of the year, according to the weekly report of the New Zealand Meat Producers Board, j In the mutton market wethers are steady on short spot stocks. Ewe I are easier, owing to a poor demand, i Short spot stocks have resulted in a firming In frozen beef. Chilled bee'f again is easier, owing to heavy supplies. New Zealand porker pigs are quiet and unchanged, while baconors are steady at late rates. Following are the latest quotations announced by the board* together with the values ruling at the clo6e pf the previous week:— Frozen Mutton New Zealand—Crossbred wethers and maiden ewes: under 4Sib (5 7-8 d) 5 7-8 d; 48-561 b (5Jd) s*d; 57-641 b (5 l-8d) 5 1 -8d; 85-721 b (4fd) 4fd. ewes: under 481 b (4*d) 4 3-8 d; 43581 b (3|d) 3 5-8 d: 57-641 b (3 id) 3*d; 65-721 b (3 3-8 d) 3*d. Frozen Lamb New Zealand—Canterbury: 361 b and under .7 l-8d; 7 l-8d; 37-421!) (7 l-»d) 7 i-8d; 43-501 b (6 7-8 d) 7d; second, about 31 lb (7d) 7d. Other South Island: 361 b and under (7 l-Bd' 7 Jd; 37-121 b. 7 i-8d) 7 l-8d; 43501 h (7d) 7d. North Island, 361 b nnd under (7 i-8d 7|d: 37-421 b(7 i-8d) 7 i-8d; 43-50|b 7d; 7d: second, about 30lb 7 1 -8d 7 l-Bd. North I Island, first quality. 301 b and under (7d 7d; 37-421 b7d 7d: second, about 3ilb (6 7-Bdj 6 7-Bd. Australian—Victorian: First. 361 b and under '6*d) 6Jd: first. 37-421 b (6Jd) 6sd. Argentine (new season’s)-- * First. 361 h and under B*d) 6*d; first, 37-421 b (6 l-8d) 6 i-Bd. Frozen Beef New Zealand—Ox hinds (Eil) sd; ox fores (4d) 4d. Australian—Ox hinds Csd/ sd; ox crops (4d) 4d. Chilled Ox Beef 14 51b to 2101 b) New Zealand—Hinds (4Jd) 4Jd; fores (3fd) 3 5-8 d; Australian—Hinds t (4 5-8 d 4 5-8 d; crops (3 7-8 d: 3?d. Southern Rhodesian—Hinds (Id) id; fores 3d, 3d. Argentine—Hin^s :s}d) 5 5-8 d; fores (4*d) 4 l-Bd. Uruguayan—Hinds (sd) sd; fores Z (4d) 3 7-Bd. Brazilian—Hinds (4 5-8 d) 4 5-Bd. Frozen Pork New Zealand—First, 60-801 b 6J d) 6Jd; first, 81-1001 b (6fd) 6|d, first, 101-1201 b (6fd; 6£d; first, 121v 1601 b (6ld) 6jd. The weekly quotations are based on actual sales of wholesale quantities of i. carcases of mutton or lamb or of [quarters of beef delivered to Smith- '• Afield market and or London stores. In s the case of chilled beef the rates rep- „ resent the approximate prices realised 3 for the week at per lb. To arrive at the equivalent ex ship values r»ne farthina- per pound should be deducted from the prices quoted l above. Quotations given represent the _ average for the week, and are not d selected lines, but for parcels fairly s representative of the bulk of shipments now on offer.