FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 207, 2 August 1937, Page 5

FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

lamb Market very firm. CHILLED BEEF IMPROVES. The lamb market is very firm with better prices for heavy weights and second quality. Consumption continues good. Mutton market: Wethers and ewes firm with improved prices. Beef market: Frozen beef market quiet and unchanged. Chilled beef prices have improved this week owing to lighter supplies. Now Zealand porker pigs: • Firmer. Now Zealand baconcr pigs: Firm, with higher prices. The above report was received on Saturday by the Meat Board from its London office, which advises that the following are ihe approximate prices realised for the week, based on actual transactions of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of meat mentioned and are for representative parcels of the goods offering during the week, boing for 'business done on the basis of delivered to Smithtiold market and/or ex London stores. Prices for the two previous weeks arc also shown: — New Zealand sheep.—Crossbred wethers and/or maiden owes, 481 b and under, s£d (53d, sgd) ; 491 bto 561 b, sgcl (sfd, sid) ; 571 bto 641 b, 5Jd (SRI, 5Jd); 651 bto 721 b, sid (5Ad, sd). Ewes, 48lb and under, 4d (same); 491 bto 561 b, 3gd (3*d, 3*d); 571 b to 641 b, 3id (33d, 33d); 651 b to 721 b, 3*d (3gd, 3§d). New Zealand lambs.—Canterbury, oblb and under, 74d (same); 371 b to 421 b, 7id (7d, 6|d); 431 b to 501 b, 7d (6Jd, 63d); second quality, average about 311 b, ,7d (61Jd, Other South Island, 361 b and under. 7jd (same); 371 b to 421 b, 7<d (7d, 6gd); 431 h to 50lb, 7d (6gd, 63d). North Island Downs, 361 b and under, 7|d (7|d, 7id); 371 b to 421 b, 7id (7Ad, 7cl); 431 b to 501 b, 7d (6£d, 6jd); second quality, average about 30lb, 7Jd (same). North Island, first quality, 361 b and under, 7Jd (7gd. 7-id); 371 b to 421 b, 7id (bid, 63d); second quality, average about 311 b, 6Jd (63d, 63d). Australian lambs. —Victorian, first quality, 291 b to 361 b, 7d (7d, 6|d); first quality, 371 b to 421 b, 63d (6|d ; 6id). Argentine lambs. —First, quality. 361 b and under, 6j(d (6|d, 6jd); 371 b to 421 b, 6Ad (6gd, 6RI). New Zealand frozen boef.- —Ox hinds, 145 lb to 2101 b, 4id (4id, not quoted); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3RI (3id, not quoted). Australian frozen beef. —Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 4id (4id, not quoted); ox crops, weights corresponding, 3id (3id, not quoted). , Now Zealand chilled beef. —-Ox hinds, 145 lb to 2101 b, s|d (sd. Sid); ox lores, 1451 b to 2101 b. 3id (3*d, 3?d). Australian chilled boef. —Ox hinds _ 145 lb to 2101 b; 5d (4gd, sd); ox crops, weights corresponding, 3id (3id, 3id). Union of South Africa chilled beef .--Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, not quoted (sd, 54d); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, not quoted (3id, 3|d) Southern Rhodesian chilled beef.—Ox hinds, 1451 bto 2101 b, 4§d (4W, 43 d); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3Ad (23d, 3id). Argentine chilled beef.—Ox hands, 1451 b t.O 2101 b, 6§d (s|d, 6Ad); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3gd (3id. 3|d). Uruguayan chilled beef. —Ox hinds, 145 lb to 2101 b, 53d (Sid, Bid); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3jd (3id, 3gd). Brazilian chilled boef.-Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 6id (sd, Bid)., New Zealand porker me f’ 611 b to 801 b, 6gd (64d, 6id); 811 b to IMUj, 6Sd (6id, 6id); 1011 b to 1201 b, 6gd (6|d, fiow Zealand baconer pigs.—l2llb to 1601 b, G)d (6gd, 6Jd). STEADY ALL ROUND.

Compared 'with last week’s quotations, crossbred lamb, 281 b to 361 b, id per lb higher; second quality lambs, ad per lb higher; wethers, under 481 b and °4lb to 721 b, A per lb higher; ewes 481 bto 651 b, id per lb higher; ewes, 641 b to 721 b, -4cl per ffa higher. Others unchanged. The market is steady all round. The above cabled advice was received on Saturday by Levin and Co., Ltd., from their London agonts. The Bank of New Zealand (produce department) has received the following ad : vice from its London office os at close ol business last weok:—The market is short of wethers; prices arc nominal, lhe demand for ewes is improving, but prices arc practically unchanged, lhe market for lambs is stoady. Prices have hardened for chilled beef owing to smaller supplies.