SOUTH AMERICAN MEAT EXPORTS.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 43, 20 February 1930, Page 12

SOUTH AMERICAN MEAT EXPORTS.

The New Zealand Meat Producers' Board has received a cable from its representative at Buenos Aires, South America, advising the following shipments ■ to" the United Kingdom for the fortnight ended 13th.February, 1930, from Argentine and Uruguay (tho figures do not include exports from Patagona, Chile, qr Brazil): — £22,250 quarters chilled beef, 2575 quarters frozen beef, 66,918 carcasses frozen mutton, 146,054 carcasses frozen lamb. The quantity shipped to the Continent of Europe during the same period was .as follows: —59,754 quarters frozen beef, "27,004 carcasses frozen mutton, 93S carcasses frozen lamb. FLAX DEVELOPMENT. Development o£ tho Ilaxmilling industry in the extensive swamp lands along the lower reaches of the Mangatawhiri Stream, about seven miles from. Pokeno, Auckland, and along Ihe Mangatangi Stream, near Kapuku, about 16 miles from Pokeno, is reported as making good progress. A new company, the Provincial JTlaxgrowers' and Millers' Association, Limited, has recently established a new mill at Kapuku, which is dealing with the flax from about 800 acres of swamp land adjoining. The capacity of the mill is approximately 12 tons of green leaf a day, : ■which gives an output of about one and a quarter tons of fibre a,day. The; mill'is steam driven, but electric power is to be ■used. '_;■■- ' ' . , : UTILISING WASTE STRAW. Proposals are made to manufacture strawboard and millboard from waste straw;, from the Canterbury wheatfields, giving the grower an estimated, additional return of 8d per bushel on wheat. It is stated that butter boxes and other containers have been manufactured from the material with no ill-effects on contents. The syndicate engaged in the utilisation of the waste wheat straw proposes to erect a factory in South Canterbury, at either Tinwald or Timaru. Principal members of the syndicate concerned arc Jie.ssrs. J. C Stanley, chemist, who has worked' in mills in Holland, Canada, and the United Statep ■of America, .W. B. Sputer, Auckland, and; C. Eafle,