HEAVY KILLINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 24, 30 January 1939, Page 4

HEAVY KILLINGS.

; I ;| MEAT FOR EXPORT. :j LAMBS TOTAL 2,720,667. i An increase in killings oi moet claaeea of stock at meat expoYt companies' freezing works throughout the Dominion is shown in the Meat Board's report covering the period from October 1 to January 15. The number of lambs killed for export, 2,720,667 head, is only slightly lower than last season's high total, and exceeds that of the previous year. Both chilled and frozen beef show a. substantial increase, and wether mutton is up. Less ewe mutton has been handled at the works, and fewer pigs and bobby calves. The following table compares killings for t!ie past three seasons during the period from October 1 to January 15: — 1 f>3B 39 1037-38 193 C 37 Brer— I riiil. quar. 53.053 50,387 42 005 Frown quar. 21,745 7,767 4,286 Honeless frt. ccs. . . 110,326 94,520 33,875 Mutton— Wether ccs. 167.688 156.378 111 664 Ewe ccs. . . 33,007 78,243 26 o*>9 Ijimb ccs. . 2,720,667 2,722,812 2,499,389 Pork— Porkers ... 83,351 116,941 114.613 Bacnners . l(ll,fl20 105 40 ,, HOOT , Bobby veal . 64,573 71.467 68.763 .Sundries .. . 76,068 69,608 61,703 LAMB FOR CANADA. EXPERIMENTAL SHIPMENTS. Further experimental shipments of Xew Zealand lamb for the Eastern Canadian market are being made this season by the .New Zealand Meat Producers' Board, and *he first consignment was recently dispatched by the steamer Kaipara. It will be distributed from two points, 1000 lambs going to Toronto, and the remainder to Montreal.

The Xew Zealand Trade Commissioner in Toronto will handle the shipment in accordance with experience gained last season, when the Board's London manager visited Canada in connection with two experimental ehipniente which were made at the time.

The entry of Xew Zealand lamb into Canada hae been greatly facilitated by a trade agreement negotiated with the Canadian Government by the Hon. W. A ash (Minister of Finance), under which •the dirty was reduced from 3 cents per lb to half a cent per lb. The New Zealand Meat Producens' Board's London manager found that there is a limited market for New Zealand lamb in Canada for a few months, approximately February till May. J. his eeaeon e opening shipnien-t will enable a eellinjr campaign to be inaugurated, and two further .shipments will probably follow in March and April, after which supplies will be available from local producers.