MEAT PRODUCTION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 285, 21 March 1941, Page 2

MEAT PRODUCTION

FIVE MONTHS EXPORT KILLINGS Killings for export at the Dominion's freezing works to Ist March a period of five months,, show a total of 6,716,041 freight carcases, which according to the official state ment of the N.Z. Meat Producers Board, is 943,930 in excess of kill-' ings in the corresponding period of the previous season, to the nearest comparable date. North Island production was 4,812,625 freight carcases, compared with 4,390,196 and South Island 1,903,416 compared with 1,381,915 in the previous season, to March 2, 1940.

Lamb killings have reached a total of 6,761,817 or 906,000 carcases above that of the previous season. Ewe killings have increased by 155,876 carcases to a total of 886,216 but there is a substantial decline of 306,586 in killings in wethers, this season's total benig 2i86,549. Details of lamb and muN ton production to March 1 with the corresponding figures for the previous season in parentheses are as follows:—.

North Island Wether mutton 259,681 (561,8,93) Ewes 690,278 (635,462) Lamb 4,003,374 (3,765,97 i) South Island Wether mutton 26,868 ( 31,242) Ewes 195,938 ( 94,878) Lamb 2,758,443 (2,088 946) Frozen beef production has reached 197,457 quarters compared with 88,007. Porker killings (32,470 in thte North Island, and 2€21 in the South) total 34,491 showing an increase of 17,907 carcases. Baconer killings were as follows : North Island 217,428 (compared with 182,929); South Island; 6602 (4558) an increase this season of 36,541 carcases. Killings of choppers total 9134 being an increase of 2826. Killings of other classes of meat expressed in f,olb freight carcases were as follows, with the figures for the previous season to approximately the same date, shown in parentheses : Boneless beef 198,211 (252170); boneless bobby veal 85,597 (62,557); sundries 230,699 (186,238).