INCREASED KILLINGS
Increased killings for export have, been recorded at New Zealarid,freezing works since the season started on October 1, 1940. From that date to January 18, 1941, according to the New Zealand • Meat Producers' Boards 'returns, freight carcasses totalled^ 3,027,826, compared with 2,340,644 casses in the corresponding period in the previous season. Lamb; killings now total 3,562,1P3 carcasses, compared with 2,751,644 carcasses for the i comparable period • last season.
Wether mutton killings i this season have been 49,363."carcasses, compared with 146,399 in the corresponding period of last year; and ewe mutton 70,024 carcasses, compared with 86,929.
Frozen beef production has reached 58,711 quarters, compared, with 16,064 in the corresponding period of. last season.
The figures of. pork production are as follows, last. season's figures' being shown in parentheses:—Porkers (carcasses), 11,342- (10,000); baconers '(carcasses), 153,708 Ul0,930); choppers (carcabsses), 6280 (2597).
Killings of- other classes of meat (expressed in 601b freight^carcasses)-from October 1,-1940, till January 18, 1941 (with figures; for the previous season in parentheses), are as follows:—Bone-, less beef, 178,867 (101,903); boneless bobby veal, 82,812 \ (64,895); sundries, 109,936 (79,859). '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 28, 3 February 1941, Page 5
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179INCREASED KILLINGS Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 28, 3 February 1941, Page 5
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