LAMB FOR LONDON
- § .AUSTRALIAN TRADE
I GROWING IMPORTANCE
* Australian shipments of lamb to the ''(United Kingdom for the past six years |have kept round about 8,500,000 carexcept in 1923, when- they |reached 9,290,000. The returns for the ■^calendar year 1937 promise to exceed -the usual 8,500,000, for stock killings Jifor export for the statistical year £1936-37, ending June 30,- show a subjstantial increase over that ended June ■£30, 1936. The Commonwealth Departqjjnent of Commerce, Australia, reports jrthat for the periods July 1 to April 30 (fall stock killings for export- were as — . '• / ■■■■ '■ / ■ Increases; ■:;■ 193(5-37. ■ 1933-36.5 193". ilLambs .... 5,928,687 5,167,702 760.983 SSheep '■....;. 1,845,313 705.37S 1,136,937. VlCattle ...... 532,612 357,170 17,5,44.2 ■,'Calves 481,987 340,230 141,74<S :.pig s 301,270 231,449 . .69,821 'I Shipments of lamb to ports other vthan the United Kingdom, for.the jperiod July tp April, according to the 4"Pastoral Review," amounted to nearly i 41,500 carcasses, mostly to Hong Kong, ■'Singapore, and Colombo.. * Australian lamb is not.a negligibl?. ■; competitor with New Zealand in ' the market. Shipments -during May ito the United Kingdom are expected Ho reach .260,000 carcasses. \
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 12
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176LAMB FOR LONDON Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 12
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