Meat Industry In Very Favourable Condition
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.
“The meat industry has never been in a more favourable condition than today," said the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Lee Martin) last night. “Even if climatic conditions are not good in all New Zealand districts, the number of lambs -which will be available for export will far exceed the number in any previous season/’
Apart from export, the Minister said there would be opportunity to retain more than the usual proportion of ewe lambs. “As our essential function in the supply of food to Great Britain is along the line of meat and daily products, any real expansion of the amount of these depends very largely on the replacement animals which are available,” said the Minister.
“It is to be hoped that larger than the ordinary number of lambs should be retained to further increase our breeding flock, satisfactory as it is at approximately 20,000.000." The latest information on the estimated lambing percentages and the number of lambs for the whole Dominion showed that from the 19,926,299 breeding ewes in the Dominion, the estimated percentage of lambs was 85.26. the number being estimated at 17,017,595.
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Northern Advocate, 16 December 1939, Page 6
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