FAT LAMB TRADE
AUSTRALIA EXPANDS
Production of fat lambs in Australia is being given increased attention, and the prices for them have provided very remunerative returns. During the year ending June 30 last, states Mr. Bell, chairman of Winchcombe, Carson, and Co., wool brokers, Sydney, 4,942,000 carcasses of lamb were exported from Australia to Great Britain. The total is 1 339.000 carcasses above the wii level But shipments to other destinations were only 40,630 carcasses. "An extraordinary expansion nas, therefore, occurred in our lamb trade with the United Kingdom," he added. ''Those lambs, including their skins, produced approximately £5,000,000 for Sr "toecontrast to the gradually extending outlets for wool, new markets tor lamb are not developing. We are almost wholly dependent upon the British Isles for lamb exports. The lamb industry may be overdone in Australia unless new and substantial markets are found. At present, no such outlets are in sight."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 60, 8 September 1937, Page 14
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151FAT LAMB TRADE Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 60, 8 September 1937, Page 14
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