FROZEN MEAT TRADE
Decrease In Lamb Shipments
LARGE INCREASE IN KILLINGS With tlie exception of lamb and pork, exports of all classes of frozen and chilled meat shipped during the live and a half mouths of the current season to Marc-.i 15 show increases, when compared with those for the corresponding period ol 1937-38. Lamb is down by 250,880 carcases and pork by 46,689 careases. Exports of chilled beef increased by 41quarters, frozen beef by 4631 quarters, boneless beef by 52,558 bags and mutton by 39,789 earcases.
The exports for the latest period were as follows* those for the corresponding 5i months’ of 1937-38 being shown for comparative purposes: —
Killings of fat stock for export during the 5J months to March 15 show increases in every clas’S except poik. Killings o lamb at 6,724,399 carcases, show an increase of 672.755. . The figures for the 1935-39_ period with those for the corresponding a) months ot 1937-38 in. parentheses, are as follows: Chilled beef (quarters), 111,166 (10b.503) ; frozen beef (quarters), 61,969 (34 475); wether mutton (carcases), 933,381 (593.138) ; ewe mutton (carcases) 732 031 (656.361); lamb (carcases), 6,724.399 (6,051,614);_ pork (porkers), carcases, ( 21 ‘*« i; pork (baconerci), carcases, 163,05 J (liv,* 194) • boneless beef (freight carcases), 261,537 ( 222,605) ; boueless bobby veal "(freight carcases), 65,881 (74,057) ; sundries (freight carcases), 202,079 (168.930). „ , . , . , The Meat Producers Board is advised that the shipments from Australia, South America, and South Africa, to the United Kingdom, during the first half of March, were as follows: — Australia: 19,947 carcases_ mutton; 137,806 carcases lamb; 23,697 quarters beef (frozen); 15,606 quarters beef (chilled). South America: 2226 carcases mutton; 157.421 carcases lamb; 1973 quarters beef (frozen) ; 225,906 quarters beef (chilled). The shipments from New Zealand to the United Kingdom for the first half of March were as follows ;—60,812 car-cases mutton; 454,098 careases lamb; 7242 quarters beef (frozen) ; 13,949 quarters beef (chilled).
1937-38 1938-39 Chilled beef qrs. Frozen beef qrs. Boneless beef, bags .Mutton, earcases 9S.S9-1 54.090 . . 114.574 ,, 643,3S7 99,306 58,721 167,132 683.176 Lamb, careases Pork, carcases .... .. 3,296.435 .. 292,347 1.045,555 245,658
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 156, 28 March 1939, Page 12
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337FROZEN MEAT TRADE Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 156, 28 March 1939, Page 12
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