MEATEATING DROPS
» ‘ Figures For 3 Months r - “The New Zealander, in i spite of the quarterly fluctua-. j tion in over-all consumption, [ retains his position as a very i large consumer of meat by > world standards,” says the I Government Statistician, Mr , J. P. Lewin. t “The latest United Nations Statistical Yearbook shows; that only Argentina has a larger net supply of meat a head for domestic consumpE tion,” he says. 1 Although in the quarter: 1 ending September last year, 1 the bone-in weight of meat ’ produced in New Zealand was ; 125,300 tons, compared with 1 120,500 tons in the same per-' ’ iod of 1968, domestic con-: ’ sumption fell from 74,400 tons, ‘ to 70,400 tons. f The figures for the yearly period ending in- September, ; however still showed a rise in > both production and consumpi tion. .. Production was 1,014,000 B tons for 1969, compared with 1 986,000 tons for 1968 and doms estic consumption was 291,600 s tons compared with 288,800 tans in 1968.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32234, 28 February 1970, Page 17
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