EXPORT OF MEAT

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 23, 28 January 1938, Page 12

EXPORT OF MEAT

COMPARATIVE FIGURES

Figures supplied by the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board show that during the period between October 1, 1937, and January 15, 1938, there was an increase in the exports of chilled beef, frozen beef, pork, and boneless beef, compared with the amounts exported for the corresponding period twelve months previously, but the export quantities of mutton and lamb decreased.

The quantities exported during the latest period, with those for the same period a year ago in parentheses, are as follows:—Chilled beef, 48,294 quarters' (44,111); frozen beef, 41,809 quarters (36,793); mutton, 307,384 carcasses (318,276); lamb, 1,316.769 carcasses (1,349,175); pork, 162,769 carcasses (160,125); and boneless beef, 71,310 bags (38.905).

Killings for export at all works in the same period, with those for the preceding year's period in parentheses, are shown as follows:—Chilled beef (qrs.), 50,387 (42,695); frozen beef (qrs.),1 7767 (4286); wether mutton (c/cs.), 156.378 (111.664); ewe mutton (c/cs.), 78,243 . (26,029); lamb (c/cs.), 2,722,812 (2,499,389); porkers (c/cs.); 116,941 (114,613); baconers (c/cs.), 105,492 (110,952); boneless beef (frt. c/cs.), 94,520 (33,875); boneless bobby veal (c/cs.), 71,467 (68,763); sundries, 69,608 (61,703). The board is advised by cable from j its London office that the shipments from Australia, South America,' and! South Africa to the United Kingdom during the first half of January, 1938, were as follows:— / Australia.—Carcasses mutton, 32,876; carcasses lamb, 106,086; quarters beef (frozen), 2552; quarters beef (chilled), 4937.

South America.—Carcasses mutton, 11,150; carcasses lamb, 100,244; quarters beef (frozen). 1286; quarters beef (chilled), 176,862. , • South Africa (including Southern Rhodesia).—Quarters . beef (chilled), 513. ...-.; New Zealand.—Carcasses mutton, 48,679; carcasses lamb, 466,143; quarters beef (frozen), 3291; quarters beef, (chilled), 14,723.