FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18277, 19 December 1922, Page 11

FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

EXPORTS FOR SEASON.

FREIGHT SPACE ALLOTTED.

MORE KILLINGS THAN LAST YEAR,

Arrangements have now been made by tho New Zealand Meat Producers' Board for shipping space for frozen meat to the end of March, 1923. The following table shews the shipnL'nts made last season compared with the allocations of shipping space for the current season:-— Freight Freight Carcases Carcases , 10-21-22. 1922-23. ivovember . . . 220.769 152.075 l>ecember . . . . 244,847 654,000 January . . . . 55(?.013 718,500 teoruary . . . . 687.81S 680,000 Marc fi • • . . 1.006,954 620.000 2,748.403 2.824,575 The killings for November this year totalled 192,968 freight carcases, compared with 51.500 for November, 1921 Stocks on hand for the similar periods totalled 128.681 and 791.598 freight car cases. The new season's operations commenced with more shipping available than there, was last season, and without the handicap of carry-over stocks, such as existed in the previous season. More over, the monthly shipments will be more regular this "season than they were last.

. The allotments for vessels leaving in January have just been announced by the board as follows, the two first mentioned being destined for West of England ports:—Ruapehu, 73.000 freight carcases: Tekoa. 54.000; Maimoa, 40,000; Carpentaria, 90,000; Port Hunter, 111.000; Otarama. 45.800; Kumara, 64.300; Port Elliot, 67.700; Arawa, 70.500: Westmoreland. 36.230: Port Chalmers. 66.000. Total. 718.500.