LONDON’S MEAT SUPPLY

Evening Star, Issue 18785, 8 November 1924, Page 13

LONDON’S MEAT SUPPLY

Last year 470,401 tons of meat, point) y, and provisions were sent to the Lont.on central markets for sale. Ibis is /.o/m tons above the total for 1922, and has nut been exceeded in the nlty-five years existence of the market ays ‘ The 1 hues ). Of that quantity 9i.Aj tons was british and Irish, 105,151 tons came from Australasia. 15,641 from Canada, 2M,4a9 from South America, and 45,105 Horn Holland and other countries. It consisted of beef and veal, 263,297 tons; mutton and lamb, 134,274; pork, 41,421; poultry and game, 17,619; rabbits, 4,577; butter, cheese, and margarine, 4,292; eggs, 5,0 w tons; and sundries, 221 tons. The value ul meats .nul other commodities handled at Sinilhficld during 1923 (according to tho estimate of H. WG. Millman. the clerk and superintendent) was approximately £35 ; 0C0,0C0. Iho mo stock killed to maintain the y eal '*L”'Tif* supplies may be put as follows SoJ.OUO bullocks, 5,500,000 sheep and lambs, and 900.000 pigs. Of the total imports ot beef and mutton into the Unite_d K.ugdom, estimated at 955,209 tons, 5o per cent, was handled at the London central matkets. How dependent the people of London, say, 8,000,000 consumers, are upon the central markets for their neat plies is shown by the quantity or meat distributed through the markets dining tho year, a quantity sufficient to provide each week a mixed ration of beef, mutton, and pork of 37.90 z per head; and how dependent not only the public, but meat re ripen overseas sources of supply. colonial and foreign, is ‘ten v.htn of the 37.90 z the quantity of Br:ush-bred meats marKeted was just sufficient to icim 6.60 z per head.