BRITISH MEAT IMPORTS
BIG DECREASE EARLY IN YEAR (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) LONDON. April 16. I The United Kingdom’s imports of imeat in the first two months of this year were 121,000 tons less than durI ing January and February of 1950 I 130,000 tons compared with 251,000 tons, says the Commonwealth Economic Committee in its monthly bulletin. Beef and veal imports fell by 66,000 tons, mutton and lamb by 45,000 tons and pig meat by 20,000 tons. Imports of tinned and canned meat increased bv 14,300 tons.
Australia was the main supplier of beef and veal, the total imports of which fell from 79.700 tons to 13,900 tons. New Zealand exports of bone-in beef fell by almost 5000 tons, and boneless beef by 1200 tons. New Zealand shipments of mutton and lamb also fell comoared with the first two months of last year. She sent 3807 tons of mutton, compared with 8520 tons in 1950, and 15,037 tons of lamb, compared with 20.328 tons. Australian exports also fell sharply and the total imports into the United Kingdom of mutton and lamb in January and February were 22,557 tons, compared with 72,529 tons last year. The Argentine sent no meat of any kind, because of the continuation of me dispute over prices. Dairy Produce Imports A rise of 7 per cent, in the Imports of butter and roughly 100 per cent, in the imports of cheese, is recorded by the committee. Increased butter supplies from New Zealand and Denmark offset reduced supplies from Australia. The figures, all in cwt, were: New Zealand, 594,830 (539,773 in January and February, 1950); Australia, 324.208 (419.178); Denmark, 345,957 (221,212). New Zealand and Australia sent much more cheese, but the main increase came from foreign countries, chiefly the United States. The figures were: New Zealand, 448,426 (295.617)Australia. 119.087 (78,964); total foreign 357.817 (76,109). ’
Bad weather during January and February reduced the United Kingdom’s milk production by 4 per cent, compared with the same period last year.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26398, 17 April 1951, Page 7
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