ALL-TIME RECORD
MEAT PRODUCTION MINISTER QUOTES FIGURES "Last season's production was an alltime record, reaching the amazing total of over 13,000,000 carcasses, thus exceeding last year's record by 2,000,000 carcasses," said the Minister of Agriculture '(the Hon. W. Lee Martin), speaking today at the lunch to delegates attending the annual meeting of the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board. "Against this production," he said, "the Marketing Department has already paid to the industry £16,000,000 on meat already shipped.
"A further £3,500,000 will be paid On meat now in store, making a total of £19,500,000. The industry has never had an income of this figure in it* previous history."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 53, 30 August 1940, Page 8
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107ALL-TIME RECORD Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 53, 30 August 1940, Page 8
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