OUR MEAT EXPORT INDUSTRY

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1033, 24 January 1911, Page 8

OUR MEAT EXPORT INDUSTRY

)■■■. HOW IT HAS 'ADVANCED.. In. 1910 New Zealand-exported 168 times thVamonnt; of-, frozen 'meat it sent away. ii£ 1882. The story, is hot one "61 uninterrupted advancement iu the Volume of output. In. ISS2,' twenty-eight. years, ago, the _'- Dominion.... exported ';■ 1;'/07,s281 b. of • irozen-.nieat. ..Tlia;.following year's' records show that the .quantity had increased : nearly., six-fold by • tiio end ■ of 18b3-to- ; 9,853,2001b. There .was - then a steady and solid- increase up till 1891.- The figures for the years interve'ning'betweeh lKS3.'ahd 1891,-. including 18'Ji, were:— 1851,\;28,'445,i'281h.; ISBS, 35,-20-i,976ib.; 1886, 35;708,1C01b.; . 1887, . 45,035,98-Jlb.; lbfcß, 61,857,3761b; 1839, 73,5G4,'0641b;;. 1890,-100,934-, 7561b.; 1891, 110,199,0821b. - -

'.In -1892: tho export, fell-to 97,C3G,5571b., but-it began to recover iu the following year, which closed • with the 'figures 100,262,4531b., and in-.1893 a.record was . with 116,729,1041b. - • Another record was.made in 1894, when 128,039,522 lb. was exported, but in the next year there 'was a drop to 122,887,8181b. From 1896 to. 1000 there was an unbroken advance, a's' tlie following - figures show :— 1897, 151,374,3091b.; 1898, 159,223,7201b.;'1899, 188,902,7601b.; 1900, ' 192,074,4511b. There was a falling oft'.-in 1001 to 101,440,9711b., ; but by. tho end of 1902 226,904,4141b. was recorded -as a year's output. Next year the'-quantity rose still higher—to 243,903,-;4381b.-',A" serious -shrinkage accurred in 1904, when the total export was 202,126,412 lb.,.nearly 42,0.00,0001b. less, than the output of-the-previous twelve, months.. -In I9Q5' .there was:.: another., big drop—to 179,063,2321b. .'-The total was then lower than .it .had been for six years.

The'.' year' 180G saw an extraoruinnry jump in the exports, an-increase of about 50,000.0001b.; the year .ended with the total at 230,030,0411b.- . Another rise was made in 1907, ..when .the total-was swelled, to 239,218,9151b.'■'.'• Next year came, another' fall—io-231,80G,9361b'.° But in 1909 all previous.figures .were-"eclipsed,with a quantity ■cf 269,773,6981b., and'.in the. year -just Closed an export'of 25G,987,9501b.. has been ,recorded. "■ . ■ .. -. .Of .this year's total of meat exfort'the greatest portion was-mutton! For. lie- Inst six months of the :year -35;014;499 lb..mutton; 1,825,4241b. Jamb,.and 19,121,049 lb..beef, werc'sent away. - In the previous 'half year .there- was more'meat of .every tfcind exported.. The figures .were:—Mut- ■: ton, 77,u12,008ib.; 1amb',100,165,900.b; ■ beef, 56;523,160!b. The totals for.the year were, :the'refore—mutton,' 112;926;4171b.; lanib, 118,417,3241b.; beef, 55,G04,2091b. . : The 'greatest quantities .'-were shipped from Wellington. < The'chief mutton porta . Were:. — Gisborno, 3,864,7151b.; Napier, 7,507,8181b.; Wellington, 9,993,0091b.;-.Lyt-teltoh, :4.990,9101b.;- Timaru, 1,819,6811b:; •and.Bluff, 4,474,7321b. / -

-.Lamb'went in big quantities from Napier, 2,469,0421b.; AVcllingtbii,' 2,907,356!b. ; Jiytteltou,- 4,337,7191b: ;' T fimaru. 2,357,2071b.; and'-Bluff; 3 i o2B,lSSlb. : :

\-The chief-beef exporing ports were:— 4,00'7,495'b:; Napier, 5.130,0461b.; AVaitara, ,2,402,8591b.; Waiiganui, 1,184;172 ib.; arid "Wellington, 4,504,G411b.