MEAT TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 72, 27 March 1933, Page 10

MEAT TRADE

EXPORT AND KILLINGS

An improvement in the London prices for New Zealand lamb is reported by the Meat Board. In a cablegram dated London, March 24, the board is. ad vised that the tone of the market is better, and consumption is expanding. Prices have advanced by atynit %d perlb on the week. The market for ewes is quiet, arid that for wethers shows a slight weakness. The New Zealand beef market is quiet, with no change, and the trade in New - Zealand porkers is reported as slow. _ ■

.The board reports exports to, various destinations during the period October 1, 1932, to March 15, 1933, as follows:— •

Beef. Mutton. Lamb. Pork. Destination. qrs. ccs. ccs. ccs. London .... 63,821 609,670 2,776,147 81,357 Southampton , . 16,647 64,165 . — Liverpool .14,982 42,451 295,052 6,242 Glasgow" ... 6,070 8,758, 53,996 17,,650 Avonmoiitli ■ .'' 2,147 19,881 119/383 '6,982 Manchester :'■• 849 ■ : 4,347 ■." 56,152 —

88,020 701.7TS 3,363,619 112,23:

Also 72,673 bags of boneless beef!

For the corresponding period of last year the exports were 43,841 quarters beef, 1,118,568 carcasses mutton, 3,302,358 carcasses lamb, and 59,149 carcasses pork, with 95,177 bags of boneless beef.

Killings for the period in review amounted to 133,630 quarters of beef, an increase of over 110,000 quarters; mutton, 1,288,431 carcasses, a falling off of over 600,000 sheep; 5,584,586 carcasses lamb, an increase of about 300,000; and 171,832 carcasses pork, an increase of 87,900 carcasses.

Vancouver . ' — ■'. — . 253 New York ..100 — — Canada (East ' Coast ports) — — 8 - West Indies — — 6 - Hong Konj; — , — i 403 San Francisco — — 2 - Pacific Islands 51 '24 ' ' '52