MEAT FOR EXPORT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 81, 17 March 1933, Page 11

MEAT FOR EXPORT

LARGE LAMB KILLINGS. HEAVY FALL IN MUTTON. Dining the first months of the meat export, season, ending on February 28, the killings and export of Jamb almost <-<|iiaIlc<| the previous season’s record, ii fai-lor Inrgelv in-counting for the present dull slat.- of the London market. Killings and shipments of mutton declined by about 40 per cent, in the. same period, while the output of bee! 1 and pigs has been more than doubled. Killings of lamb during the five months’ period this season totalled I t.sSd.S-IS carcases, compared with j -1.1i111.1H2 earrnscs in the same period last season, and the shipment.-; to

Great Britain totalled 2,617,739 carcases, against 2,699,347 carcases. A total of 1,087,497 carcases of mutton was killed this season, compared with 1,696,818 carcases last season and the shipments to Great Britain were 478,952 carcases and 886,514 carcases respectively. Killings of stock for export in October-l’ebruary of 1932-33 and 193132 are compared in the following table: —

The separate killings at North and South Island works were as follows, the figures for the previous season being given in parentheses:— North Island. — Beef (quarters), 97,455 (18,640); wethers (carcases), 566,661 (776,614); ewes. 393,755 (677,551); lambs, 3,108,726 (3,161,137); porkers. 116,397 (62,768); baconers, 37,430 (12,637): boneless beef (freight carcases). 88.852 (102,806); sundries. 53.476 (57.817). South Island.—Beef, nil; wethers. 5".152 (46,826); ewes, 74.920 (195,827); lambs. 1.778.122 (1,749.775); porkers, 928 (265); baconers, 1363 (930); boneless beef. 12,301 (14,667); sundries, 21,737 (26,644). Shipments of frozen meat to the United Kingdom during October-Feb-ruary, with the quantities for the same period of last season, were as foljows: Beef. 61 394 (42,092); mutton. 478.952 (886,514): lambs, 2,617,739 (",699,347); pork, 91.881 (49.992); boneless beef (bags), 65,781 (94,728). The total stocks of meat in store end on ships in New Zealand at the end of February, with those on hand nt February 28, 1932, in parentheses, are as follows: —Beef, 67,461 (17,920); wethers. 434,213 (454,639): owes, 385.746 (602,810); lambs, 2.400.798 (2,425,678): porkers, 56.400 (13,807); baconors. 21.470 (7546); boneless beef. 5.1,052 (77.852); sundries. 28,989 (23,9741.

1932-33 1031-32 Beef (qrs.) .. 97,455 18,640 Wethers (c/cs) 618.813 623,440 Ewes (c/cs) .. 468,684 873,378 Lamb (c/cs) . 4.886,848 4,910,912 Porkers (c/cs) 117,325 63,033 Baconcrs (c/cs) 38,793 13,567 Boneless beef c/cs) (frt. 101,153 117,473 84,461 Sundries (frt. c/cs) 75,213