INCREASED EXPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 101, 2 May 1938, Page 4

INCREASED EXPORTS.

NEW ZEALAND MEAT. Exports of all classes of meat, except pork, have been heavier this season than last, according to the returns of the Xew Zealand Meat Producers' Board. '1 here has been <a big increase in the quantity of beef shipped abroad, "boneless" showing a rise of almost 100 per cent. Considerably more chilled and frozen has also been exported. The returns of the board show that exports from October ], 1037, to April 15, compare with those of the previous season as follows:—•

3037 -:?8. 1930-37. Chilled beef (qunrters) l'_'2.2.°.<i 108.145 Frozen beef (quarters) <!(> UI-iK ">" 3!»7 Mutton (carcases) .. S:u.L'(il T.'.JsV.KO I-nmb (carcases) ... 4,27«,"i1« 4,104 4!M) Pork (em-cases) 347.000 3r>4 775 Boneless beef (bagsl 140,188 7<iY.43 Killings of fat .stock for export during the period, compared with those of the previous two seasons, arc as follows: — „ » October 1 to April J5. Beef— J937-3S, 1080-37. 1035-30. <"liillo<l, qrs. 1LM1.753 103,587 78 804 Frozen qrs. 47,KiG 77',1'«4 I! o 11 e 1 ess, Mutto' — LS " ' 31S ' 00S 210,197 247,G14 Wether, ccs. 75H.870 741,781 8n!),3«8 Kwe. ccs. . . D(i4.!lii7 580,044 4<14,344 I>V,rk— CCB, ' T ' 4B0 ' 7 - 7 7,181,151 (i,024,(i!J5 Porkers, ces. 202.158 284,373 307,215 Bacon ers, ' g Bo'neie'sV 2 °' MS2 213 ' 15 " 1S8 ' 85G bobby veal, ccs 75,089 71 003 4~, B(iC Sundries .. . 221,0 ie lSG,'tiO3 11»7,'51'5