Frozen Meat Exports.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 9, 24 January 1905, Page 4

Frozen Meat Exports.

The following interesting summary i and comparative statement for the . years 19Q3-4 has beensupplied us by the compilers, Messrs Dalgety and Co., per their local agent, Mr R. A. ! Rickman:— ~ The shipments for the half year ending * 30th June, 1904, were 1,324,870 carcases t mutton, weighing 75,641,3261 b; 1,689,439 i carcases lamb, weighing .59,435,5411 b f and 11,921,7931 b of'beef. Total for year 1904, 2,038,084 carcases ( mutton,weighingllO,Bl6,6l3lb; 1,913,153 t oarcases lamb, weighing 67,120,0361 b ; ( and 18,189,7631 b of beef. , Total for year 1903, 2,643.87 a carcases ■ mutton weighing 146,311,5281 b; 2,166,506 carcases lamb, weighing, 76,564,4641 b; 1 and 21,027,4461 b of beef. t Exports of Fbozen Meat. c Lbs. e 1882 .. .. 1,707,328 1883 .. .. 9,853,200 1884 .. .. 28,445,228 f 1885 .. .. 33,204,976 t 1886 .. .. 38,758,160 i 1887 .. .. 45,035,984 t 1888 .. 61,857,375 1889 .. ~ 73,564,065 I 1890 ~ .. 100,934,755 i 1891 .. 110,199.082 1892 .. 97,636,557 c 1893 .. .. 100.262,453 1894 .. .. 116,729,104 1895 .. ... 128,039,522 r 1896 ~ 122,887,8 f 8 I 1897 151,374,309 \ 1898 .. .. 159,223,720. f 1899 .. .. 188,292,760 1 1900 .. .. 192,074,451 1901 .. .. 191,440,971 C 1902 .. .. 226,904,414 I 1903 .. ~ 243,904,438 1904 .. 202,126,412