BIG MEAT EXPORT
SUBSTANTIAL RISE MUTTON AND LAMB RECORD EXPECTED , Killings for the export of mutton and lamb in New Zealand are likely to be a record this season. Killings at all works for the season which commenced on October 1, 1939, show a substantial increase over 1938-39 up to May 11 of this year, and the improved output is likely to be maintained until the season ends. Up to May 11, the total freight carcases of ell classes of meat killed for export were 10.683,144, compared with the previous season’s figure of 9,589,825 to May 15. This represents an Increase in 601 b freight carcases in the current season of over 11 per cent. Lambs killed this season total. 9,453,704, representing the very substantial increase over last season of 635,734. North Island killings account for ■ approximately 6001,000 of the increase. Killings of wethers were 1,202,696, being a reduction for the current season to date of 175,000. Ewes, totalling 1.705,295, show an increase over the previous season of 600.000 mostly, from the North Island. Taking into account the reduced killings of wethers, the net increase in mutton production this season has been over 400,000 carcases. Beef killings.totalled 372,567 quart-' ers, compared . with 306,436 quarters for the corresponding period last season. Farmers have carried their S bigs to baconer weights, with the result that killings of .this type are 115,000 ahead of those for the previous season, viz. 305,108, compared with 189,612 in 1938-39 to the same date. On the basis of 601 b freight carcases, this season's export killings of pork amounted to 805,331, which is a net decrease on the previous season oj 46,050 freight carcases. The killings this season to May 11, 379.355, compared with the corresponding total for last season to May 15, porkers ana baconers, .represent a . reduction in numbers, of 26 per cent, but comparison on the weight basis reduces the disparity to 5 per cent: Small increases have taken place in boneless beef, bobby veal and sundries.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20262, 1 June 1940, Page 12
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333BIG MEAT EXPORT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20262, 1 June 1940, Page 12
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