FROZEN MEAT TRADE.
AUCKLAND FARMERS' WORKS.
EIGHT YEARS' RETURNS.
An interesting return included in the report of the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company, wbkh will be submitted to the annua! meeting of shareholders to be held on September 29, shows the numbers of stock treated at tie works of the company since it commenced operations in 1904. The figures of the past eight years are shown in the following table, the re spective periods being from July 1 to Juno 30: —
Darin? the year there were also killed at the Horotiu works for the Hamilton butchers 3956 cattle, 14,634 sheep 1483 lambs 1231 pigs, and 270 calves.' The largo decrease in the number of catt'e killed for export during the past season is accounted for by the serious decline h the prices of frozen beef en the English market making it. unprofitable to ship cow beef. c
iqiI'IS " • • 1^ 4 - 1 73 48.416 17.611 ililff '• •• &£§£ 106 - 519 «Cr7 Hm£*J& •' •• 78 - 272 W9.2U 80.741 " •• S 6 - 838 9«»013 22,598 1920-21 .. .. 75,642 67.042 16.461
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17881, 8 September 1921, Page 6
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171FROZEN MEAT TRADE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17881, 8 September 1921, Page 6
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