LAMB EXPORT TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 282, 28 November 1929, Page 4

LAMB EXPORT TRADE.

An interesting table appears in the annual review issued by Pyne, Gould, and Guinness, of Christchurch. It shows the' percentage of lambs killed for export to the number of lambs tailed in the North Island and. the -South Island separately. It will be seen how steady the South Island farmer has been in exporting each year about half the lambs tailed, and it shows also the tendency for the export of lambs from the North Island to increase; whereas in 1924 only 33 per cent of the lambs tailed in the North were killed for export, this has now been increased to nearly 40 per cent. This increase indicates that the North Island is realising the lesson which Canterbury first demonstrated,-that lambs are much more profitable than sheep, although the natural conditions in the North will probably continue to result in a relatively | larger export of sheep there than in the South Island. KILLINGS OF LAMBS FOR EXPORT EXPRESSED AS PERCENTAGES OF LAMBS TAILED. South. North. 1925 33.0 51.3 1926 ' 37.4 51.5 1927 38.7 51.4 1928 40.3 50.7 1929. (estimate) .. 37.'1 49.6 It is interesting to record that while the South 'Island- percentage is about 50, thei percentage for Canterbury alone is about 67. The reason, of course, is to .be found in the usual import from outside the province in to Canterbury of lambs for! rattening. These imports increase the Canterbury percentage and decrease the per-' centage for the other provinces. / j