MEAT TO AMERICA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 727, 29 July 1929, Page 16

MEAT TO AMERICA

DOMINION’S INCREASED TRADE IMPORTANT OUTLET Shipments of frozen meat from New Zealand to North America for the 12 months ended May 31, 1929, are estimated to represent a value of approximately £500,000, states the New Zealand Meat Board’s annual report. There were landed 149,665 quarters of beef, 8,246 carcases of mutton, 42,491 carcases of lamb, 60,670 bags of boneless beef, and 4.072 packages of sundries. Of the beef exported overseas this season, no less than 60 per cent, has been shipped to North America. “The board,” states the report, “has been endeavouring for the last few years to find an outlet for our meat in North America, and at different periods has made several trial shipments of various classes of frozen meat, both to the East and West Coast ports. The result of these trial shipments prompted the board to make shipments on a larger scale, and last year it purchased and shipped 32,500 lambs to New York to demonstrate the possibilities of this market. Copies of the account sales for these lambs were distributed to those interested, and it is pleasing to note that as a result a quantity of lambs has since been shipped there by various shippers.” The board views as a matter of vital concern the proposal to increase the United States tariff on meat and wool. The report states an emphatic protest had been made against tho suggestion, particularly as it affects meat.