MEAT PRODUCTION
* EXPORT KILLINGS. FIGURES TO MID MARCH. Export killings at the Dominion’s freezing works from October 1 to March 15 last, show a total of 7,828,407 freight carcases, which according to the official statement of the N.Z. Meat Producers’ Board, is 967,023 in excess of killings in the correspondingperiod of the previous season, to the nearest comparable date. North Island production was 5.482,208 freight carcases. compared with 5.045.145. and South Island 2,346.199, compared with 1,816,239 .in the previous season, to March 16, 1940. Lamb killings have reached a total of 7,675.978 or 942,295 carcases above that’of the previous season. Ewe killings have increased by 183,483 carcases to a total of 1,149,705, but there was a decline of 358,552 in killings of wethers, this season’s total being 391,928. Frozen beef production has reached 236,006 quarters compared with 123,111. Porker killings (46,249 in the North Island, and 2263 in the South) total 48,512 showing an increase of 28,077 carcases. Baconer killings were as follow: North Island, 240,072 (compared with 204,887); South Island, 7181 (5573), an increase this season of 36,793 carcases. Killings of choppers total 9768, being an increase of 2522.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1941, Page 9
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190MEAT PRODUCTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1941, Page 9
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