N.Z. MEAT.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1923, Page 4

N.Z. MEAT.

U'l-iIJdNGTDX. Nov. I:;. The Now Zealand .Mont Producers’ Hoard lms mi regulated ■-lijjjnionts of Now Zealand lnont l hut Iho .-lores in iho 0- 1111 inion aro practically empty. Tiioi'e wav in store at the end of October only • 11,-12, I'arriiM:, lamh. 1..”>22 enreasses mutton, -12,H-12 quarters heel'. The sliipmcii Ls from .Australia last season during the months of October. Xovcmhcr and December amounted to I .'-tot, I.P) carcase', of lamb; the effects of till- drought arc such that in October of this year !i?.OOi) carcase-, were slopped in comparison to -112,00 carcases in October of last year, and the estimated amount that trill lie shipped to the end of December this year D 7o!f,(!0t) carcases, being l,lld,!.‘if> carcases less than for I lie same pei iod last year. The balance of the Australian season is expected to follow out tn tile same proportion, and the above conditions apply al'O to sheep. The first shipment of now season’s Australian lamh was sold ■ omo days ti.yi at IOJd e.i.f. This is about the same price as ~imilar (pialily landsold from Australia, at the same date, last year. The report from our Argentine agent advises:—'-Heavy falls of snow, with exiiemel.v inclement weather, have been experienced in the large slieopraisiug eonntry in the .South of the Argentine, while a loss of 20 jier cent of the sheep is proha Ido in some parts of the country. There is likely to hra poorer lambing, while wethers will ho very thin in spring and not lie ir eondition for killing until hue in the season," hut with such an extensive country the facts are not as yet stiflicienily available to enable the Board to {jive a reliable statement. Compared with last year the shipments of lamb and mutton in the months of September and October in (he Argentine were as follows :

The Board lms iust received a cable from its Argentine representative advising that it is anticipated that -liioments of frozen mutton and frozen land) from Patagonia will be less tubs season than last season. The cost of shipping lamb from New Zealand tn Great Britain has not varied much from last year; freight is lower by 1-8 d per lb, and the price of wool is somewhat bettor.

.Mutton Lamb September 102:2 02.11 1 S3,300 September 1023 0-1.100 03.300 October 1022 01.OS2 71.3S1 October 1023 l(V>,2oO 83,000