SPACE FOR MEAT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 171, 22 July 1941, Page 3

SPACE FOR MEAT

DOMINION STORAGE

RECORD LAMB KILLINGS

At ihe commencement of next season the cool storage available (based on "».j cubic feet per freight carcase, and excluding freezing chambers) will represent a capacity of 2">0.000 tons nf meat, an increase of lo per cent on the storage available at the beginning of the war. states the nineteenth annual report of the Meat Producers' Board. During the lirst year of the war. despite good shipping arrangements, congest ion took place some of the freezing works. If stoppage of killings occurred owing to lack of storage accommodation this would be most disastrous to the primarv producers affected. The shipping position has been very closeiy watched, especially from the point of view of ensuring that allotments of shipping space would afford relief as far as practicable to enable each district to continue killing operations, adds the report. This job has been particularly difficult because it lias been necessary to keep in mind always the paramount objective of securing the quickest possible turn-round of vessels, and in every way using the shipping tonnage available to the maximum advantage. The report continues that it is of the greatest importance that the conditions brought about by the war should not encourage farmers to ease up in their efforts to produce onlv the highest quality of meat. I'nder tile 1 iv.tcd Kingdom Government's meat plan. New Zealand meat, branded as such, is now finding its way into new channels of distribution. and it behoves every producer to do his utmost to maintain, and even improve, the reputation built up by the Dominion over such a long period. It is estimated that the season will finish with an export kill of 11.175.000 lambs, compared with 10.387.1.17 for the ID.jD-io season. Actually figures issued by the board subsequent to the annual report show that to June 2S a total of 11.1.",1.110 lambs had been killed for export. The season's kill, states the board, will represent a record in the percentage of export killings to tailings The season was an excellent one both as regards production and qualitv of all classcs of meat. A century ago children of very young age wen forced to work in the coal mines for If; to IS hours a day. In 1752 several men were killed bccause a child of nine in charge of a winding machine hail his attention dis,. acted by a mouse.