FROZEN MEAT.
SOUTH AMERICAN COMPETITION. PRODUCERS’ BOARD INTELLII GENCE. Wellington, July 23. The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board now has an agent in South America from whom it will receive regular information. This will enable*the Board to publish fortnightly communiI ques showing tho quantity of meat shipped by South America to the United Kingdom and the Continent of Europe or elsewhere from time to time. The shipments from South America to the United Kingdom for the fortnight ended 14th inst. were 192,252 quarters of chilled beef, 32,821 quarters of frozen beeef. 40,635 carcases of mutton and 82,439 carcases of lamb, whilst the quantity shipped to the Continent of Europe during the same period totalled 70,532 quarters of frozen beef and 43,389 carcases of mutton. The killings for the last, six months represent an increase compared with the previous season of 52 per cent, as to cattle, and a decrease of 11 per cent, as to sheep. The extent of fecent shipments to the Continent of Europe is said to be encouraging.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 186, 24 July 1923, Page 7
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