MEAT PRODUCTION
KILLINGS TO MID-APRIL INCREASE IN CARCASES The official figures of killings - for the present season at the Dominion’s freezing works from October’ 1 to April 17, as issued by the New Zealand Mea-t Producers Board, show that lamb killings now total 9,144,885 carcases, compared with 9,260,859 carcases to April 18 last season, this being a decrease of 115,974 carcases. Wether mutton killings are 463,276 carcases, and ewe mutton killings 1,473,093 carcases, compared with 696,134 and 1,735,125 carcases respectively last season. Frozen beef production has reached 306,489 quarters compared with 266,985 quarters last season. Porker killings total 70,232 carcases, a decrease of 72,716, whilst baconers total 82,572 carcases, a decrease of 127,211.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3269, 28 May 1943, Page 6
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113MEAT PRODUCTION Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3269, 28 May 1943, Page 6
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