MEAT PRODUCTION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 308, 21 May 1941, Page 5

MEAT PRODUCTION

| SEVEN MONTHS EXPORT KILLINGS The official figures of export kill-* ings at the Dominion's freezing works from Ist October, 1940 till 3rdt Miay, 1941 as issued by the New Zealand Meat Producers Board sHow that lamb killings have reached a •otal of 9, 892,408 or G'58,114 carcases nbove that of the previous season. Ewe killings now show a decrease of 250,885 carcases compared wit!* the previous season, the current total being 1, 382,949. Weithers have declined by 623,805 the killings this season totalling 540,447. Details of lamb and mutton production to May '6, with the corresponding figures for the previous! season (to May 4) m parentheses are as follows:— North Islaiid Wether mutton (C/cs) 469,761 (1, 039,989)? Ewe'mutton (C/cs) 868,790 (1,117,001>\ Lamb (C/cs) 5.279,293 (4,941 891) South Island Wether mutton (C/cs) 70,686 ( 124,263)1 Ewe mutton (C/cs) 514,159 ( 516,743)' Lamb (C/cs) 4,613,115 4,292403)? Frozen beef production has reach-* ,ed 441,687 quarters compared witfo 325,178. Porker killings (145,202 in the North Island, and 4791 in the South)f total 149,993, showing an increase of 93,668 carcases.. Baboner killings were as follows: North Island 286, -v 819 (compared with 285,263); South; Island 9689 (10,631) an increase this season of 614 carcases; Killings of choppers total 10,206 being an increase of 249. Killings of other classes of meat expressed in 601b freight carcases were as follows, with the figures for the previous season to approximately the same date ; shown in parentheses :— Boneless beef 352,992 (500,226)" Bonele'ss bobby veal 86, 921 ( 66,459)1 344,967 (331,776)1