MEAT EXPORT SEASON

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 261, 22 January 1941, Page 5

MEAT EXPORT SEASON

THREE MONTHS KILLINGS Killings for export at New Zealand freezing works this season from October 1 to January 4, 1941, according to the returns-issued by the New Zealand Meat Producers Board, show a total of 1,801,195 freight carcases. Killings during the first three months of the 1939-40 season to December 31, 1939, the nearest comparable date, were 1,50'1,021 freight carcases. Lamb killings total 1,904,085 carcases (North Island 1,531,398, South Island 372,087) compared with 1,669,849 carcases for the comparable period last season (North Island 1,369, 624, South Island 300,225). Wether mutton killings this season have been 20,162 carcases compared with 83,579 in the corresponding period of last year; and ewe mutton 18,672 carcases compared with 39,680. This season's increase in pork production is being maintained. Details are ns follows, the figures for last season being shown in parentheses:—• Porkers (C/es) 6,050 ( 7,601) Baconers (C, Vs. 119,233 (84,663) Choppers (C/es) 1,580 ( 1,934) Frozen beef production for the three months reached 33.515 quarters, compared with 7,977 in Vhe corresponding period of last season. Killings of ether classes offtltleat (expressed in 601b freight catfeases)« from 1, 1940, till January 4, 1941 (with figures for the previous season in parentheses) are as follows:—• Boneless beef 59,649 (88,161) Boneless bobby veal 81,013 (62,764) Sundries 69,151 (56,979)