MEAT PRODUCTION

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 125, 28 April 1941, Page 10

MEAT PRODUCTION

EXPORT KILLINGS TO MID-APRIL. .Export killings at the Dominion’s ircezing works from October 1 to April 12 last show a total of 9,349,914 freight carcascc, which, according to the official statement of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, is 579,325 in excess of killings in the corresponding period of the previous season to the nearest comparable date. Restrictions on export killings operative from March 24, subject to several modifications since that date, are now showing their effects when comparisons are made with the previous season’s statistics to the same approximate date. North Island production was 6,410,141 freight carcases, compared with 6,220,846, and South Island 2,939,773, compared with 2,549,743 in the previous season, to April 13, 1940. Lamb killings have reached a total of 9,067,502, or 788,316 carcases above that of the previous season. Ewe killings now show a decrease of 13.815 carcases compared with the previous season, the current total being 1,294,216. Wethers have declined by 484,861, the killings this season totalling 497,301. Details of lambs and mutton production to April 12, with the corresponding figures for the previous season (to April 13) in parentheses are as follow:—-

NORTH ISLAND. Wether mutton (ce.) . 444.613 (903,178) Ewe mutton (cs.) 868.745 ( 992,772) Lamb (cs.) 4.969,991 (4,629,406) SOUTH ISLAND.

Wether mutton (cs.) . 52,688 (78,984) Ewe mutton (cs.) 425,471 (315,259) Eamb (cs.) 4,097,511 (3,649,7801 Frozen beef production lias reached 343,143 quarters compared with 212,922. Porker killings (105,739 in the North Island and 3976 in the South) total 109,715, showing an increase of 73,314 carcases. Baconcr killings were: North Island, 275,527 (compared with 254.403); South Island. 8.804 ( 9484), an increase this season of 20,444 carcases. Killings of choppers total 10,286, being an increase of 1268. Killings of other classes of meat expressed in 601 b freight carcases wore as follow, with the figures for the previous season to approximately the same date, shown in parentheses; Boneless beef. 307,903 (409,231); boneless bobby veal, 86,745 (65,634): sundries, 315,378 "(280.625).