MEAT PRODUCTION
FIVE MONTHS’ KILLINGS OFFICIAL DOMINION FIGURES The official figures of killings for the • present season at the Dominion’s ■freezing works from October 1 till February 27, as issued by the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, show that lamb killings now total 6,483,420 carcases, compared with 6,896,132 carcases to February 28 last season, this being a decrease of 412,712 carcases. Wether mutton killings are 229,056 carcases, and ewe mutton killings 877,505 carcases, compared with 407,171 and 819,184 carcases respectively last season.
Details of the lamb and mutton killings in the North Island, with figures for the previous season in parentheses, are as follow: —
Lamb carcases, 4,079,197 (4,126,861); wethei’ mutton carcases, 222,472 (381,717); ewe mutton earcases, 773,502 (578,188). Frozen beef production has reached 135,720 quarters, computed with 128,671 quarters last season. Porker killings total 31,800 carcases, a decrease of 47,139, whilst baconers
total 74,765 carcases, a decrease of 102,546.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3246, 31 March 1943, Page 8
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149MEAT PRODUCTION Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3246, 31 March 1943, Page 8
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