MEAT KILLINGS

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21371, 15 March 1941, Page 2

MEAT KILLINGS

DOMINION PRODUCTION BIG INCREASE SHOWN FIGURES FOR FIVE MONTHS Killings for export at the Dominion's freezing works to March 1, a period of five months, show a total of 6.716,041 freight carcases, which according to the official statement of the New Zealand Meat Producers Board, is 943,930 in excess of killings in the corresponding period of the previous season, to the nearest comparable date. North Island production was 4,812,625 freight carcases, compared with 4,390,196, and South Island 1.903,416, compared with 1,381,915 in the previous season, to March 2, 1940. Lamb killings have reached a total cf 6.761,817, or 906,900 carcases above that of the previous season. Ewe killings have increased by 155,876 carcases to a total of 886.216 but there is a substantial decline of 306,586 in killings of wethers, this season’s total being 286,549. Details of lamb and mutton production to March 1, with the corresponding figures for the previous season in parentheses, are as follows: — North Island: Wether mutton, 259,681 (561,893); ewes, 690,278 (635,462); lamb, 4,003,374 (3,765,971). South Island: Wether mutton, 26,868 (31,242); ewes, 195,938 (94,878); lamb. 2.758,443 (2,088,946). Frozen beef production has reached 197,457 quarters compared with 88,007. Porker killings (32,470 in the North Island, and 2021 in the South) total 34,491. showing an increase of 17,907 caries. Baconer killings were as follows: North Island, 217,428 (compared with 182,929); South Island 6602 (4558), an increase this season of 36,544 carcases. Killings of choppers total 9134, being an increase of 2826.

Killings of other classes of meat expressed in 601 b. freight carcases were as follows, with the figures for the previous season to approximately the same date, shown in parentheses: Boneless beef, 198,211 (252,170); boneless bobby veal, 85,597 (62,557); sundries, 230,699 (186,238).