During the month of January the value of living animals imported for food was £690,091, compared with £770,837 in the first month of 1896. There were 36,987 cattle imported, against 40,130 last year, and 34,904 sheep and lambs, against 59,784. The value of corn imported was £4,918,062, against £4,280,067. Of dead meat the value was £2,000,910, compared with £2,329,139. The quantity of salted beef was 11,863cwt, against 25,070cwt; iresh beef, 212,405cwt, against 246,016cwt; meat, unenumerated, 21,281cwt, _ against 18,293cwt; meat preserved otherwise than bv salting, 60,8440wt, against 86,6150wt; fresh rauttonj 211,442cwt, against 285.119 cwt. •. Of ■ butter the .value was £1,466,584," against £1,468,232; margarine, £206,379, against £215,872 ; cheese, £279,110, against £247,605 "' and eggs, £265,816, against £247,396. - ■<■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10418, 16 April 1897, Page 3
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