MEAT EXPORT

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21205, 30 August 1940, Page 2

MEAT EXPORT

RECORD KILLINGS DETAILS TO AUGUST 3 BEEF, MUTTON AND LAMB (By lelegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Friday Figures dealing with the record killings in New Zealand and the state of flocks were given at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board today by the chairman, Mr A. H. Duncan, who said the official interim figures showed that the total flocks at April 30 were now estimated at 31,050,850, a decrease of 846,241. The decrease in sheep did not reveal the whole position, as greater killings had taken place this season since April 30 as compared with the killings in the same period last year. Additional killings this season amounted to 350.000 sheep and lambs, so that the total decrease represented approximately 1,200,000. The total weight of meat of all classes killed for export to August 3 was 12,767.994 freight carcases, representing an increase over the previous season of 1,948,202 freight carcases. Mutton and Lamb Lambs killed this season were 10,381,595 (North Island 5,308,198. South Island 5,073,397), an increase of 639,092. An increase was shown also in the mutton group, wether killings having been 1,131,151 carcases and ewes 1,919,562. Also a 71 per cent increase was shown in beef killings, although killings of porkers and baconers together had dropped by 113,421 carcases. The current season's production in actual weight was now slightly ahead of last year’s.