The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1913. OUR FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 68, 25 July 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1913. OUR FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

A handy little card issued by' tin Shaw, Savill and Albion Shipping Co. supplies a list of interesting information regarding New Zealand’s frozen meat trade, and a striking illustration is given of the magnitude of the trade. In 1882 the total of frozen meat exported was nearly a million and threequarter pounds, in the next year the total was in the vicinity of ten million pounds, and in 1884 nearly twenty- ’ eight and a half million pounds was ’exported. Thenceforward the increase

was steady each year, until in 189( the hundred million pounds mark wai passed; and twelve years later- the | total was over two hundred million pounds, in the vicinity of which figure the annual export has since stood, the figures for 1912 being 272,934,0691 b. ( The present year promises to be a record, as for the six months ended June 30th the export already totals 218,784,8061 b, wihch is made up as follows: —Mutton 95,633,1231 b, lamb 1101,201,8701 b, beef 21,949,8131 b. Wellington (thirty million pounds) holds I pride of place in the export of mutiton, followed by Lyttelton (fifteen milj 1 ion), Napier (thirteen million), and Gisborne (twelve million); but Welling(ton (sixteen million) was only third in the export of lambs, first place being jheld by Lyttelton (twenty-nine million) and second place by Timaru j(eight.een million). Waitara (4,053,jOOSlh) held second place in the export of beef, first place going to Gisborne ■(4,647,6931b), tbo next in order holing Wellington (3,670,0201 b), Auckland (2,445,0421 b) and Wanganui 1(2,051,99211)). |