MEAT PRODUCTION

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 50, Issue 3056, 31 March 1941, Page 6

MEAT PRODUCTION

KILLINGS FOR FIVE MONTHS

LARGE INCREASES SHOWN

Killings for export at the Dominion’s freezing works on March 1, a period of five months, show a total of 6,716,041 freight carcases, which according to the official statement of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ ■Board, is 943,930 in excess of killings in the corresponding period of the previous season; to the nearest comparable date. North Island production was 4,812,625 freight carcases, compared with 4,390,196, and South Island 1,903,416, compared with 1,381,915 in the previous season, to March 2, 1940. Lamb killings have reached a total of 6,761,817 or 906,900 carcases above that Qf the previous-season. Kwe killings have increased by 155,876 carcases to a total of 886,216, but there is a substantial decline of 306,586 in killings of wethers, this season’s total being 286,549. Details of lamb and. mutton production to March 1, with the corresponding figures for the previous season in parentheses, are as follows:— North Island Wether mutton 259,681 (561,893) Ewes 690,278 ( 635,462) Lamb 4,003,374 (3,765,071) South Island Wether mutton 26,868 (31,242) Ewes 195,938 (94,878) Lamb 2,758,443 ( 2,083,946) Frozen beef production has reached 197,457 quarters, compared with 88,007. Bacon and Pork Porker killings (32,470 in the North Island and 2021 in the South) total 34,491, showing an increase of 17,907 carcases. Baconer killings were as follows: North Island, 217,428 (compared with 182,929); South Island, 6602 (4558), an increase this sfeason of 36,544 carcases. Killings

of choppers total 9134, being an increase of 2826.

Other Meats

Killings of other classes of meat expressed in 601 b freight carcases were as follows, with the figures for the previous season to approximately the same date shown in parentheses: Boneless beef, 198,211 (252,170); boneless bobby veal, 85,597 (62,557); sundries, 230,699 (186,238).