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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 181, 30 January 1912, Page 4

THE FROZEX MEAT TRADE. Messrs Dalgety and Co. have issued their tabulated summary of the frozen meat exported from the different ports of New Zealand for the six months ending December 31, together with a comparison or the total shipments for 1910 and 1911 The half-yearly statement shows that in mutton Napier came first with 7,526,682 lbs, followed by Wellington with <5,983,712 lbs and Lyttelton with 3,636,3791b5. Bluff was fourth with 3,407,5871b5, Gisborne fifth with 2,606,1731b5, Port Chalmers sixth with 1,485,7221b, and Timaru seventh with 1,323,0131b5. None of the other ports reached a total of a million pounds during the six months. In lamb Lyttelton came first with 4.115,7821b5, and Bluff second with 3;931.3421b5. Wellington was third with 3.581,1241bs Napifer fourth with 2,161,3451b5, and Timaru fifth with 1,467,1041b5. In frozen beef there was a total export of 5,023,8261bs rooiY ' W e,lin gton contributed 2,073,sd3lba, and Gisborne 1,416,867. Lyttel- °. n ., s contribution was only 41,3651bs while Timaru's was about equal to one carcase, or 84«lbs, The exports for the year 1911 showed a considerable decrease on those of 1910. The total shipments of mutton m 1910 were 112,926,4171b5, compared with 101,183,8671bs last year. Of loTn 118, . 417 ' 3241bs were exported in «.■?' J*"?. 4 110 ' 4 17,5241bs last year; while the shipments of beef in 1911 were less than half those of 1910, the figures Ihi To, , W °«r i ars bein g- 19 10, 55,644,209 nrfrt ?J' 26 ' 156 ' 9051bs - The total exto «7 o S i°9?n, meat ,aSt year am °™ted n-Ju ' ■ ' Ibs ' com pared with 286,987 - 9oolbs m 1910. This is a decrease of nearly 50,000,0001b5, and is probably due m a large measure, to the shortage of feed caused by the dry weather of last spring and summer. With the abundance of grass this year in almost every uS .?* u 6 , DUllion > the figures for merit 8 a cons 'derable improve-