CHANGE IN APPETITE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 109, 9 May 1924, Page 4

CHANGE IN APPETITE

CITY'S YEAR'S MEAT ACCOUNT

y EAT MORE BEEF."

Whether or not the " Eat More/Beef" campaign was responsible, the-fact remains that- during the twelve months ended 31st March, 1924, the city did' eat jnore beef and did eat, less.'muUon, lamb,. and pork. V Here are the figures Jaid. before the City Council last evening; showing the number, of beasts killed at the City':-Abattoirs' and the Wellington,; Meat ■ Export Company's works ,-ior the-city during that period, decrease being "marked .*.. > . . . : ;.::,;; \v At' Abattoirs.-; .y ■' .. . , ■Number; Number "Campar. . : .-;■ ■ slaughterea. condemned, increase; Cows „.... 2,321- 113-,. •■ *1,797 Calves., ■;..;&*■ 1315 Bullocks ... 9,238 '' 7l' ' 2243 Bulls. „_..;:■ 5 '.. ,3" , ' *1 Sheep; ._-..: 59,925 „ .225 — *5955 Lambs^ .....; 16,053 '' 12 -; 382 ?igs; : ...:..;. l; 860 ;'• 57■"■;; :.':■■_.''. ;At ,WiM.E.;.' Company's. Works. ; . ■'■■ ■ ■: ' ■];... Number ....- Compar. ■n n: ,'/;'' V' Slaughtered. •..' increase/ Bullocks",: v W_.. i .jv...v 7,651 , 566£ Sheep..-.»• .;j..U;...L:.45, 188'-■.' . ! ; Lambs'...•.._.-^...i. 13,338 ' *5,529----:.Eig .:- -iri. .. ;.;; s 3,i87: : ,;. ; 391 X CahJBS:.; ■;;;.;.„..;/.;. -1,182 V\; W / 69'-i.^In-Mthe .year just past; Wellington ate I <Mtts : ,more cows, •,'bullocks,.;.arid'.:calves y jjnot.: ; as Acows,.vbullocks fc :; and of' .course,,:but;inJ ribs, roasts,"'steaks,- and i the; various: other, cuts of: beef and veal, ; - and,, did y without muttori; -as compared ■■Tq^^l" Preyi°us'similar; period,^ from' ,: 19,063 sheep, ■•; a > flocki-to'..stbck :'a very I handsome.; run, ' arid ■'lamb'/ from' 5147----j spring j f- which'; :was- ■ pleasant enough -.for ..those youngsters: if they did notrfind a' way to: other-tables overseas"' if ,"?"*:>• ,%<>; "Ws • slightly; ; less ;pbpular :;during, the., last, twelve- mpnthr; .thefhot ; weather;of: a, Mrig :summer.■ warn^ ■?S,'. hous. ewlV:es. .away; from /sausages 'and, .indagestibn;; for , the 'iamily^V-Probably; jn. diet;;an;:,the.v-average'city ifamily ; ;duriiig;th6; ; y;earVasVnot-.st?mark^ ;ed as/to^ernoticed/by^anypne/; except, perhaps,;by; the;^roviding.'cook/ but all thpsej small, changes added up to' very big :^figures>at: ;the; : ; end : of:. «fe- twelve ;montns.;y;';!;"-;>-.'<. ; -.--' ;.i. : -':.;:'.■■;'■•-. -:. ■'■