MEAT PRODUCTION
EXPORT KILLINGS.
FIGURES FOR SIX MONTHS.
Export killings at the Dominion’s freezing works from October 1 to March 29, show a total of 8,782,647 freight carcases, which according to the official statement of the N.Z. Meat Producers’ Board, is 1,223,141 in excess of killings in the corresponding period of the previous season to the nearest comparable date. North Island production was 6,073,789 freight carcases, compared with 5,464,854 and South Island 2,708,858. compared with 2,094.652 in the previous season, to March 30, 1940. Lamb killings have reached a ’total of 8,522,986 or 1,193,759 carcases above that of the previous season. Ewe killings have increased by 198,104 carcases to a total of 1,279,521 but there was a decline of 339,812 ih killings of wethers, this .season's total being 490,772.
Frozen beef production has reached 279.859 quarters compared with 150,903. Porkei* killings total 82,216, showing an increase of 56,693 carcases.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1941, Page 8
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149MEAT PRODUCTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1941, Page 8
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