FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 177, 28 July 1928, Page 21

FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

MEAT KOR AMERICA.

j « ; LAST SEASON REVIEWED. ) .MEAT BOARD'S Sl'BYi'A'. ! ! "W'itlL justifiable satisfaction the New! Zealand Meat Producers' Board survej s j the 1(127-28 export season which lias bow virtually closed. The annual report says: "Not only has there been an increase in the prices obtained, but when the season filially closes, our export figures ior mint i will show a considerable advance ovtrj recent years and may c-onstituie a record' in the weight of frozen meat treated for export. | "Up to tlie 3uth June this year we have: already k'lled 475.29-") lambs more than up jto the same date in the previous year. It i I is also interesting to note the marked in-! | crease in beef and pork, and the decrease I j in wethers. i I "Not only has there been an increase iuj prices obtained for our meat, but th-:rej has also been a substantial advance in the! values received for our wool, hides and pelts. The export of wool from this Dominion for the twelve montlis ended 31st March. 102$. amounted to 723.717 bales, valued at I'lG.tiUl.3Ss. as compared with 028.35.3 bales, valued at £11.015,781. for the previous twelve months. This represents an increase of 05,362 bales, and an increase in value of no less than £4,775,(>0-1. Jn respect of the wool sold in the Dominion during the season just ended ! (from November to March sales) the uver-j j age price, over the whole Dominion worked j out at 10.Sod per lb, or £24 5/ per bale.; j The averages for the previous season weiej ! 12.661 d pci lb, or £18 3/1 per bale —so that i the increase this season amounts to jus: jon 4 1 1 d per lb, <>r £0 1/11 per bale.' 7 An Arresting Statement. | The importance of the livestock industry j : in the affairs of the Dominion is strikj ingly illustrated by the following ta'oie j allowing the export statistics for the j twelve months ended 31st March. l!rJ9, u . : ' follows;- ■ ■' Frozen meat ]o.i-ts.::ij i Wool IHkles anil skin- L'.t;S7.."i !1 I Other l>y-products I tallow. etc. j l,t;G7. 1 Total value of industry ]'nr I'J months r-nded 31st March. X.'il.l 5.'1.l ft 7 Beef Exports. 1 Special attention is given to the condi I tiou of the beef -export trade. ; The number of cattle killed in the P • minion for export in quarters, during i,. i past 'six years is ns follows: — i Season. Head. j T.'J'J-l::; l Jo.os:; j »...•••••••«•.« 80.7**7 IV- J 14,637 I r.3.Sl»s: 1 U'Jil-'JT 4*.os:-; U>27-2fc uo UO/0/2SJ .. j "For some years past." says flic report. I "the unsatisfactory condition of our cattle i industry lias given the board much eon-j ! ccin, and it is particularly pleasing to notei [the increase in the shipments of no/.eii, beef this season, and also the inr i ea.-:-d ; ' values which have been paid ior cuttle. : "During the year there have been ■••«! j I inquiries for our frozen beef from New' I ot k and also from Montreal. Consider-, able quantities have been shipped to these • and other ports, and it is satisfactory l.i note tlijit the mat kets for our frozen beef are being extended. There has also been a good demand for our beef for Army and : Navy Orders in Great Britain, which, comi binod with the demand from New Vol!-", j Montreal, etc.. -and the increased value ot 1 hides, has raised the values for fat cattle i throughout the Dominion. ; "The preference given to Dominion bee: j for large contracts for the British Army ; and Navy is invaluable to our beef iiiuu?- | try. and the consideration given by the ■Imperial authorities in this diiectton j should he appreciated by the cattle -ai.-t i- | of t Ins Dominion. • "It may al.-o he mentioned tli.it the ! settlement of the disagreement between ' tlie South American beet shippers has been | a factor m the improvement- in the prices i 11 a 1 i set I for frozen beef, and has indirectly [helped the values of other meats. | A Liking for Larnj3. "In ( oimectioii with the export- ot moa". jfiom South America to the British niar- ! lot, the increase in the lamb shipments j t'l om this (|uarter should be noted, and the j hoard would again stress the necessity ct • endeavouring in every way possibh to keep . up the quality of our lambs to meet this j competition. I "For the calendar year 1927 Great Britain imported from all sources nearly ten] and a-quarter million lambs. Iu addition | , to this record importation, the home-killed j j supplies were also particularly heavy. This i I huge increase in Britain's consumption ot j ! lamb is nil important and interesting fact j j to record, as the quantity imported during] 1027 was nearly one "and a-half millions j greater than tiie previous year, and easily! constituted a record, as the number of j lambs landed in Great Britain in any pre-! vious year had never even reached the nine | million mark. It is also interesting t»| compare these large landings with the prc-j war shipments of lamb to Great" Britain.! which were generally in the neighbourhood j of live and a-hali millions. i "Despite these record supplies in Iff >7 j the current year ( I! '281 started olt with j •comparatively small carry-over of ]«•.•) j j stocks in the stores in Great Britain, and j jit is plea.-ing to record that a better level j | of prices has been reached this season, and! that, up to date, the consumption lias beei- j satisfactory. : Western Ports. "With the increasing quantities •>[ iamb.-j I coming forward each season, the board is : I fully alive to the necessity of fiudin-j an I j outlet by extending our channels ot «i i; j tribution. as is shown by the larger quale I I titles now being shipped to the West of] I Knglalid ports and other destination-. I "In the direction of improving the We-* i of Kmrlatld service this season, the Boa id . I has arranged with the shippiiu: companx-: ! for more vessels to be put on the hot! ! I for loading to these ports. The board ::!s«. j specially arranged that many of the add;-' I tional vessels should loa-t t"f ii.ah Loud'-i: ; and West Coast potts of tie; United Kin--, 1 dom. and this should pi ove ot -at ;.d-1 j vantag. i» sliipi»-i-- ni ■ I in tie- de-. ..-h-- ' lliellt ot 'I'll fade to lllesc We-t to..;t . ports."

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