EXPORT OF LAMBS

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 2977, 11 March 1933, Page 8

EXPORT OF LAMBS

DECREASE THIS SEASON BUT HEAVIER WEG TITS In the report, issued by the directors of the New Zealand Refrigerating Co., the Chairman, Mr. W. IT. EFlint, said inter alia : “The killings of sheep and lambs last year created new records, and the total number of carcases exported was 2,000,000 more than in the previous highest export year. The export was probably in excess of the economic limit. At all events, live stock in the Dominion shows a reduction of more than 1,000,000, including more tlm 500.000 breeding ewes. This points to somewhat smaller quantities this year, particularly slieep, and the probability of smaller lamb killings next year. As though to make up for a shortage of numbers the weight of lambs being killed this year is considerably greater than it has been during Hie past few years, a. fact whic.h is demonstrated when I tel! you that we are getting 30 per cent, of prime lambs over 361 b in weight, where last year we got only 15 per