BEEF SUPPLY HEAVY

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 31 October 1933, Page 8

BEEF SUPPLY HEAVY

STOCKS IN DOMINION

iARGE INCREASE) SHOWN

The first returns of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board for the new season, which opened on October 1. show that fairly heavy supplies of beef are still held in the Dominion as a result of the decision to withhold shipments for three months. Present stocks of beef in New. Zealand are 139,597 quarter® greater than those at the same time last season. The stocks in hand in stores in the Dominion on October 15, compared with the figures for the correspondmg dav last year are as follows, the totals for lamb, mutton and pork being given in carcases, beef in quarters and Doneless beef and sundries in freight carcases :

Compared with the previous season the quantity of merit loaded into ships not departed from 'New Zealand on October 15 was much less. The figures for the .last two years are. as follow.

The shipments from New Zealand to tho United Kingdom for the period October 1 to October 15. were as follows, last season’s figures in parentheses: Carcases mutton. 37.150 (86,292); eareases lamb. 47,880 (51.283); quarters beef. 3602 (8779).

1933-34 1932-33 Beef .. 145.524 5,927 Wether mutton .... .. 12.112 17,436 JCwe mutton 13.143 60,988 Lamb .. 18.279 38,505 Porkers .. 14.79S 4,446 Baconers 6.577 1,688 Boneless 1 ’ beef . 31.648 34,909 Sundries .. 116.825 60,117

Beef 1933 1932 17,154 Wether mutton ... 1,304 16,277 Ew© mutton ... 9.642 24,779 Lamb ! ... 6.459 18,066 Porkers ... 3,641 169 Baooners 22 169