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Survey of Season The killings of meat returned to the Department during the 1948-49 season as available for export totalled 340,009 tons. Average weights for lamb and mutton for the four seasons 1945-46,1946-47, 1947-48, and 1948-49 are as shown in Table 9.

Table 9

The killings for export month by month throughout the 1948-49 season with the total 1946-47 and 1947-48 figures for comparison are shown in the following table. Frozen meat killings for export, season 1948-49, were as shown in Table 10.

Table 10 —Frozen Meat Killings for Export, Season 1948-49

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North Island. South Island. 1945-46. 1946-47. j 1947-48. | 1948-49. 1945-46. j 1946-47. lb. lb. lb. lb. lb. lb. Lambs 31-39 35-15 33-4 35-32 34-61 35-58 Wethers 54-32 60-18 59-6 59-87 49-67 52-41 Ewes 52-51 57-23 56-9 56-43 52-83 54-01 South Island —contd. Dominion. 1947-48. 1948-49. 1945-46. | 1946-47. j 1947-48. J 1948-49. lb. lb. lb. lb. lb. lb. Lambs 34-9 35-76 32-81 35-35 34-1 35-54 Wethers 51-1 51-81 53-86 59-42 58-8 59-19 Ewes 55-1 55-13 52-61 56-05 56-2 56-00

— ) rO a r ether Mutton. we Mutton. uarter Beef. "3 ■ oneless Bobby Veal. oneless Bull Beef. oneless Cow and Ox Beef. <D rt o § 1 ■g o ai g © JS i o £ 3 5 o Hi > Of > M PP ffl M F4 O H H 1948 Tons. Tons. "Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. October 8 20 79 67 6 910 114 154 487 48 13 190 2,096 November 3,644 449 550 227 5 460 241 192 1,136 59 12 316 7,291 December 30,529 796 1,378 330 10 169 363 199 2,029 74 22 1,220 37,119 1949 January44,554 1 ,255 6,483 563 6 76 443 387 1,320 105 25 1,889 57,106 February 35,068 2 ,420 17,401 1 ,793 21 26 838 813 1,326 371 38 2,302 62,417 March 32,300 3 ,604 16,533 5 ,885 35 2!) 894 1,412 1,347 783 30 2,374 65,226 April 20,763 2 , 552 5,578 8 ,560 41 42 556 1,441 721 969 14 1,525 42,862 May 15,087 1 ,413 3,901 10 ,968 53 51 560 2,926 276 809 21 1.466 37,531 June 5,797 381 1,942 5 .722 29 99 381 1,696 109 136 1 '695 16,988 "July 360 80 361 775 ■ 4 1,231 94 343 85 2 421 3,756 August 86 22 27 201 4 3,562 72 195 70 3 526 4,768 September 1 122 73 129 2 1,841 64 151 140 10 316 2,849 Totals 188,197 13. , 114 54,406 35. ,220 216 8,496 4,620 9,909 9,046 3,369 176 13,240 340,009 1947-48 season 181,975 14, ,732 50,548 50 ; ,149 715 8,312 4,995 9,097 9,225 4,212 212 12,864 347,036 1946-47 season 179,908 20. ,358 57,213 50, ,728 1 544 7,469 5,124 9,121 7,769 3,736 245 12,609 354,824