MEAT RECEIPTS UP

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28553, 5 April 1958, Page 8

MEAT RECEIPTS UP

Figu res For Two Months Receipts from New Zealand meat export sales for the first two months of this year are slightly higher than for the same period of last year.. The latest survey of the market information service of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board reports that the proceeds for the two months were £12.740.000. compared with £12,467,000 for the same months a year ago. The survey refers to the increasing sales of New Zealand meat in markets outside the United Kingdom. In 1955 meat sales to these markets were of a valine of £7.580.000, representirtg 12.9 per cent, of meat export receipts. By last year returns from markets outside Britain had grown to £12,636,000, representing 17.8 per cent, of meat export receipts. Figures of exports of the 195657 season’s meat to these markets are not yet complete, but at March 1, with a small amount still in store, they totalled 75.401 tons, or 19 per ceht. of the volume of meat exports. This may be compared with 73,567 tons or 17.8 per cent, of the 1955-56 season’s meat exported to markets outside the United Kingdom. Reporting that. New Zealand beef is in light supply in the United Kingdom, the survey states that this is due to other markets that have presented a very strong demand for it. It is likely that a comparatively small quantity of New Zealand beef will be sold in the United Kingdom this year.