THE MEAT TRADE
SOUTH AMERICAN SHIPMENTS. 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 communiques showing quantity o£ meat •shipped by South Amcrica to the United Kingdom and the Continent of Europe or elsewhere from time to time. The shipments from South Amcrica to the United Kingdom for the fortnight ended July 14 were: —192,252 quarters chilled beef, 32,821 quarters frozen beef, 40,635 carcase? mutton, 82,439 carcases lamb. The quantity shipped to the Continent of Europe during the same period totalled 70,532 quarters of forzen be?f and 13,389 carcases mu'ton. The killings for the 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 the \ recent shipments to the Continent of Europe i 3 encouraging. !
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Northern Advocate, 26 July 1923, Page 2
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155THE MEAT TRADE Northern Advocate, 26 July 1923, Page 2
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