SMITHFIELD MARKET

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 22, 27 January 1936, Page 11

SMITHFIELD MARKET

LONDON'S MEAT SHOP

GREATER QUANTITY IN 1935

(From "The Post's" Representative.)

LONDON, January 2.

Statistics relating to the business carried out at Smithfield Market invariably provide a safe basis for estimating the general state of the meat trade throughout the country. Smithfield caters for a population of 9,000,000, and the fact that the meat supplies handled at the market during 1935 showed an increase of 12,388 tons over the 1934 total which, in turn, was 9381 tons greater than the 1933 total, shows that economic recovery is clearly leading to a big improvement in the national nutrition.

The total supplies of meat, poultry, and game from all sources amounted to 464,700 tons. No less than 248,269 tons of beef from all sources were handled, an increase of 5348 tons mainly accounted for by home supplies, the figures for Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. showing decreases, with increases in the Argentin- and Brazilian totgjlj^gg IN M u TT ON.

Mutton and lamb passing through the market amounted to 142,846 tons, an increase of 3645 tons, the heaviest decrease being of 884 tons from the Argentine. With the exception of a small increase of nine tons from Uruguay, the increases, were all from home and Empire sources. The pork and bacon handled at Smithfield during the year amounted to 50,273 tons, an increase of 3395 tons, decreases of 1411 tons from Australia, 859 from the Argentine, 692 tons from the U.S.A., 189 tons from Holland, and 88 tons from Denmark were recorded.

Poultry and game sup-^lies rose from 22,598 to 23,212 tons, an increase of 714 tons. English and Welsh supplies increased by 1024, Scotch by 73, Canadian by 44, New Zealand by 35, and Australian by 37 tons. Nearly all foreign countries sent less than the previous year.