FROZEN MEAT

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 258, 28 July 1941, Page 3

FROZEN MEAT

Season’s Export Killings

The official figures of export killings at the Dominion’s freezing works from October 1, 1040, till Julj 12, 1941, as issued by the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, show that lamb killings have reached a total of 11,195,343, or 825,Q0S careases'above that of the previous season. Ewe killings now show a decrease of 387,440 carcases, compared with the previous season, the current total being 1,531,739. Wethers have declined by 691,173, the killings this season totalling 614,031. Details of lamb and mutton production to Juiy 12. with the corresponding figures for the previous season (to July 13) in parentheses, are as follows, North Island figures being given first:—Wether mutton, c/es., 514,956 (1.129,440), 99,075 (175,764); ewe mutton (c/es.), 560,514 (1,218,964), 671.225 (700.215); lambs (c/es.), 5.790,940 ( 5,296.946), 5,404,403 ( 5,073,299).

Frozen beef production has reached 682.491 quarters compared with 684.979. Porker killings (210,506 _in the North Island, ffhd 8108 in the South) tots] 218.614, showing an increase of 127.245 earcases. Baconer killings were as follows:—'North Island, 278,010 (compared with 313.520): South Island. 9149 (12.02 G a decrease this season, of 38,387 carcases. Killings of choppers total 10,195, being a decrease of 826. Killings of other classes of meat, expressed in 601 b. freight carcases, were as follows, with the figures for the previous season to approximately the same date shown in parentheses:—Boneless beef, 668,282 (851.565) ; boneless hobby veal. 5.5,443 (75.009); sundries, 411.182 (451,716).