THE MEAT INDUSTRY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 14

THE MEAT INDUSTRY

SEASON'S SHIPMENTS state" OF THE MARKET Freezing works in the North Island are now busy and expect to be so from now on until the end of the season. Shipments of meat for 'the 1936-37 season, beginning October, show no outstanding variations in quantities for the current season when compared with the period October 1 to December 15. Shipments of chilled beef show c,n increase this season, but chilled arid frozen taken together are but 600 quarters more, the increase being in chilled. Lamb also shows an increase in shipments for this season by und:r 35,000. Pork is also more; mutton is less. Japan is a larger importer of boned beef than it was last year. Shipments are mainly to the United Kingdom, with increases to Manchester direct on l&st season's returns. The Meat Board gives the following comparative shipments for the periods October 1 to December 15 for this season and last.

1936—OCTOBER 1 TO DECEMBER 13. Chilled Frozen Beef, Beef, Mutton, I,:\rtl), Qi'S. Qrs. C/cs. C/cs. London 28.224 26,497 242,312 45S.:lT2 Southampton 1.709 — 3,912 11.190 UTerpool .. ' — 6,213 12.54X 7.:I30 Glasgow .. — fill 1,560 1,13d ATonmouth . — 1,160 4,160 4,131 Manchester. — — 1,750 7,)79 Honolulu — — — Other Pacific Islands .. — — 1 10 Calcutta — — — ; 04 Japan — 714 — — ' 20,933 33,498 266,248 4S7.2G6 1935—OCTOBER 1 TO DECEMBER 15. London 13,446 30.991 276,346 410,130 Southampton 1,034 2,497 — 1,072 Liverpool .. -- 9.277 !),8St 4,514 Wasirow .. — 1,620 1,137 231 Aronmoulh . — 2,315 3,251 6.071 Manchester . -— — 509 750 West Indies . — — 30 GO Honolulu .. — — — ■• Other Pacific Islands .. — 23 47 26 Calcutta .. — — — us Colombo ... — — —. 113 Japan — 60G 1-1.480 50,329 291,215 433 U07