MEAT FOR BRITAIN

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

MEAT FOR BRITAIN

SHIPMENTS ON THE WAY

The New Zealand Meat Producers' Board is advised by cable from its London office that the shipments from Australia, South America, and South Africa to the United Kingdom during the first half of December, 1936, were as follows:— nnßßn Australia.—Mutton, carcasses, 72,660; lamb, carcasses, 426,080; beef (frozen), quarters, 20,549; chilled, quarters, 1933. South America.—Mutton, carcasses. 5079; lamb, carcasses, 216,131; beef (frozen), quarters, 2455; chilled, quarters. 211,243. , . South Africa (including Southern Rhodesia).—Beef (chilled), quarters, 1362. „ , , , The shipments from New Zealand to the United Kingdom for the first half of December were as follows:—Mutton, carcasses, 18,743; lamb, carcasses, 174.013. Beef (frozen), quarters, 1612; chilled, quarters 10.674., Included in the 1936 shipments are 86,203 carcasses of pork, of which all but two are for the United Kingdom. For the 1935 period the shipments of pork amounted to 77,395 carcasses and of boneless beef 25.781 bags, of which 570 were for Honolulu, 36 for other islands, and but five bags for Japan. KILLINGS FOR THE, SEASON. Killings for export at all works during 1936-37 season, commencing October 1, 1936, to December 15 (the figures for the corresponding period of the 1935-36 season are shown), are as follows: — IMfl. l!tt". Chilled beef (nrs) 20,301 15.2R1 Frozen beef (qrs) 2,585 6,244 Wether mutton <e/cs) 43,403 85.320 Ewe mutton (c/cs) 0,(561 6.(568 Lamb (c/cs) 909,10.8 1,050.527 Pork (porkers), c/cs fi2,40« 75,044 Pork (baconers), c/cs 72,820 67.587 Boneless beef (frt. c/cs) .. 22,047 38,558 Boneless bobby veal (c/cs) 65,707 41,946 Sundries 31,967 33,730 Stocks.of meat on hand in stores in New Zealand at October 15 last with stocks on hand at the same date last year are shown in parentheses as follows:—Chilled beef, , quarters, 280 (1529); frozen beef (quarters), 1879 (10.266); wether mutton (carcasses), 20,238 (28,975); ewe mutton (carcasses), 4717 (4185); lamb (carcasses),. 426.235 (439,191); pork (porkers), carcasses, 22,341 (27.218); pork (baconers). carcasses. 26,042 (33,369); boneless beef (frt. carcasses), 11,180 (25,688); boneless bobby veal (carcasses). 88,462 (71,909); sundries, 13.770 (18,561). BUTTER MARKET STEADIER (Bv Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyripfit.l LONDON, December 31. The butler market is steadier. Danish. 106s to 108s: choicest salted New Zealand. 955; Australian, 94s to 955; unsalted New Zealand, 935; Australian, 95s to 965. Cheese is auiet. New Zealand, while and coloured, 58s; Australian,- 56s to 575. The egg market is depressed. Seventeens. 10s 6d to 10s 9d: sixteens. 10s 3d; fifteens, 8s 9d; fourteens, 8s 3d; 13J's, Bs. SEEDS FOR EXPORT Mr. H. C. Wilton, seed specialist of the staff of Wright, Stephenson, and Co., Wellington, has just returned from a four months' business visit to South Africa. He believes that New Zealand will in future benefit by the export of certified grass-seed to the Union of South Africa. Agricultural methods in the Union, he said, appeared to him to be rather backward, particularly those appertaining to pasture improvement. However, the Union Government was taking the position in hand, and with the experiments that were being carried out at its research stations, there was every prospect that in the future fairly large areas of land would be laid-down in English. : ,grasse&