NEW PRODUCTION TARGETS

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24868, 7 May 1946, Page 6

NEW PRODUCTION TARGETS

FAMINE COMMITTEE’S FIGURES COMPARISON WITH OTHER YEARS The campaign to relieve famine in Europe has, in the words of a statement issued yesterday by the National Famine Emergency Committee, “shortterm and long-term aspects." The first is concerned with saving food coupons and, by other means, making available food normally consumed in New Zealand, and the other is increasing primary production. The 1946-47 production targets aimed at are set out below, followed by the average for the five years before the war and the average for the same period during the war:—wheat. 250.000 acres. 214,000 acres, 255,900 acres; oats (threshing), 50,000 acres, 63,400 acres, 57.000 acres; malting barley, 40,000 acres, 22,400 acres. 30,000 acres; maize, 12.000 acres, 6900 acres, 81C0 acres; potatoes, 25,000 acres, 21,900 acres, 21,400 acres; onions, 1000 acres, 800 acres, 900 acres: peas, 40.000 acres. 19.100 acres. 33,200 acres; meat, 530.000 tons, 470,000 tons, 526,000 tons; butter-fat, 190:000 tons, 189,900 tons, 191.500 tons.

The statement also gives the following information:—“New Zealand exports 85-87 per cent, of butter production, and our own consumption is 21.000 tons annually New Zealand exports 95 per cent, of cheese production. New Zealand exports of meat, butter, and cheese provide the following number of British people with their annual rations:—meat, 11,760,885; butter, 23,799,618; cheese. 20,107,911. The population of the British Isles is about 48.000,000.”

Meat for Export It has been agreed that the following classes of meat will be accepted by the Marketing Department for export:—(l) manufacturing meat: (a) ewes over 721 b? prime wethers over 901 b. and second wethers over 721 b without any weight limitation are to be left bone-in and telescoped without being defatted; (b) existing stocks of boneless mutton; (c) head meats of any description; (d) ram meat boneless. ineluding two-tooth, killed after March 31 in the North Island and April 20 in the South Island. (2) Sound parts of blemished carcases, fit for export, to be packed in bags containing not more than 601 b. (3) Briskets of beef packed similarly. In ad : dition, freezing works are urged to increase to the greatest extent possible the export of skirts and beef tripes.