MEAT TRADE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 1 May 1928, Page 5

MEAT TRADE

EXPORTS FROM DOMINION. FOR SIX AND A HALF MONTHS INCREASES RECORDED, . . , (BY I'NLEGRAPU press association.! WELLINGTON, May 1. Official returns supplied by the New Zealand Meat Producers Board for the six and a half months of the current season to April 15 show an increase in shipments of all classes of frozen meat as compared with the corresponding period of last season. The killings of stock for export during the same period show a small increase in lamb, a decrease in mutton, and large increases in pork and beef. ' An analysis of the returns give the following increases in shipments of frozen meat from the Dominion from October 1, 1927, to April 15, 1928, as compared with the corresponding period last season: Lamb 696,710 carcases, mutton 116,794 carcases, beef 105,752 quarters, pork 18,177 carcases. The killings of stock for export during same periods afford the following comparison: Lamb, an increase of 179,616; mutton, a decrease of. 230,540; pork an increase of 60,372; beef, an increase of 183,851 quarters and 53,982, freight carcases of boneless beef.

The total shipments of frozen meat from October 1, 1927, to April 15, 1928, were: Beef 130,676 quarters, mutton 928,594 carcases, lamb 3,007,324 carcases pork 69,190 carcases.