FROZEN MEAT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17280, 22 September 1916, Page 3

FROZEN MEAT.

DOMINION EXPORTS

Alessrs Pyne and Co., in tliftir annual “ Review,” supply valuable tables showing the progress of tho frozen meat business during recpnt years, and a noticeable feature is the, fact that whilst the sheep 'flocks have .shown a slight shrinkage, due to the unfavourable weather conditions which have prevailed in various parts of the Dominion, but more noticeably in the South Island, the exports of meat haveshown a substantial increase. The following extracts from the “ Review ” are interesting and instructive:— . , r The returns, published-* by, Alessrs Dalgety and Co., for the Shaw. Savill and Albion Company, sliow tbo Dominion exports of mutton and. lamb, for the year ending June SO, 1916, in comparison with which will be found those for tho year 191-5. ending , the same date. The figures are as-follow: " exports prom the dominion. Mutton Lamb Year ending Carcases. Carcnsos. Totals. June 30, 1015 . 2.1 G2 204 2,669,389 ,4,831,593 Juno 30, 1916 . 2,765,4C0 8,575,65 1 6,314,111 Net result for Juno*3o, 1916 . *6ofi.2sG *906,262 *1,512,518 . -> * Increase' Last year’s figirres ?is compared with the year 1914 showed the following results : —Mutton, decrease 347,200; lamb, decrease 1,021,856; total decrease, 1,369,005 carcases. EXPORTS PROM THE NORTH ISLAND. Mutton Lamb .. Year ending Carcases. Carcases. Totals. June 80 19U 1,514,417 1,234.623 2,793,916 June 80, 1916 . 1,807,346 1,615,603 8,322,954 Net result for Juno 30, d 1916 .' *231,079 ‘ *524,008 * Increase. The position last year as compared with 191.4 was as follows: —Mutton, decrease 336,801; lamb, decrease 254,762; total decrease, 591,563 carcases. EXPORTS FROM THE SOUTH ISLAND. Mutton Lamb Yettr ending Carcases. Carcases., Totals. JuueSOlSlo. 647,787 J, 384.5G0 2,033,647 Juno 30, 1916 . 961,114 2,060,043 3,021,167 Net result for . kneao?l9l6 . "*313,327 *088,510 * Increase. The figures last year as compared with 19,14 were:—Mutton, decrease 10,399; lamb, decrease 767,103; total decrease, 777,502 carcases. EXPORTS FROM CANTERBURY - KAI- - INCLUDING PICTON AND ' NELSON. ■’ - ' Mutton Lamb Year ending Carcases. Carcases. Totals. Juno SO, 1915 . 428,503 9(2,979 b^**^ June 30, 1316 . 551,117 1,326,252 1,880,3 b? Net result for SS . wTI *353,273 *480,887 * Increase. The position last year as compared with 1914, was as follows: —Mutton, decrease' 78,293; lamb decrease 666,141; total decrease, 744,434 carcases. ... J. , These figures indicate quite plainly what has taken placo, and they also account for the position of our Canterbury flocks at the present time. . It amounts to this. In April, 19In, which would be. getting towards the end of our meat export season, Canterbury figures indicated that- wo were about 216,000 sheep below the returns for 1914 at the same month. Further, a number of our sheep were taken south, as the result of a dry time here, and they have not sinco returned, or if so it is only quite reccntly, and yet. in face of the facts the Canterbury district > has exported nearly half a million raoi'e carcases or mutton and- lamb this year than it did in 1914-15, with the result that we now stand-in the position of having oyer 000,000 less sheep than we had twelve months ago. ,