FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3441, 10 March 1932, Page 2

FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

A remarkable increase in the killings of stock and the export of frozen meat is shown in the returns for the three months of the 1931-32 season ended December 31 issued last week by the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board. The killings of sheep for export for the three months totalled 365,772 carcases, as against 222,863 for the same period of 1930, an increase of 142,909 carcases, or over 64 per cent. In the North Island the killings totalled 335,866 carcases, as against 215,521, an increase of 120,345, and in the South Island 29,906 carcases, as against 7342, an increase of 22,564. The increase in lamb killings has been more remarkable, the Dominion total for the three months being 2,146,879 carcases, as against 1,178,816, an increase of 968,063 carcases, or over 82 per cent. The killings of lamb in the North Island were 1,702,287 carcases, as against 1,061,119, an increase of 641,168 carcases, as against 117,697, an increase

of 326,985 carcases. The killings of beef for the period also show in* creases. ,