FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 214, 8 September 1921, Page 5

FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

EIGHT YEARS' RETURNS. INTERESTING FLUCTUATIONS. The fluctuations of the frozen meai Industry in New Zealand during the past few years, showing the successive effects of war and trade conditions, are interenUugly illustrated in a return issued by Iho directors of the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company, covering the company'n freezing operations during the pa.-tt oifflit years. The boom, decline, and revival in the several classes of meat are plainly even in the figures given, which Indicate that despite a pronounced decline liist year in the export of sheep and cattle the falling off is merely relative to the war boom, and that the all-round meat export is yet well above the immediate pre-war level. The figures given for the past eight years, the periods being from> July 1 to June 30, arc:— Y«ir«. Sheep. Cattle. 11)13-14 87,066 24.671 10.8R8 1014-13 117.131 !»5,842 21.0715 Wl.-i-ie 114.173 48.41G 47,61't IM6-17 61,331 27,2(7 24..-!« l 1017-18 74.055 106,31f> 19.557 101S-1!) 78,272 149.211 :in.741 1010-20 Hfi.ffifi 96,013 22.698 1020-21 7.-),642 C 7.042 1(5,461