SHIPMENTS OF MEAT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21479, 1 May 1933, Page 7

SHIPMENTS OF MEAT

FIRST HALF OF APRIL LAMB EXPORT HIGHER Returns just issued by the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board show the following shipments of froj;en meat from New Zealand to the United Kingdom during the period April 1 to April 15:—Beef, 22,518 quarters; mutton, 120,300 carcases; lamb, 636,101 carcases; pork, 8496 carcases; boneless beef, 23,598 bags. The total shipments from New Zealand for the period from October 1, 1932, to April 15, 1933, with the totals for the same period of last year in parentheses, were as follows: Beet, quarters, 120,309 (52,C86); mutton, carcases, 980,005 (4412,288); lamb, carcases,' 4,471,340 (4,358,166); pork, carcases, 130,941 (6W95); boneless beef, bags, 109,819 (1(!9,875). Stocks on hand in i*3w Zealand on April 15, compared with last season a stocks at the same da;e, are as follows, the totals for lamb, mutton and pork being given in carcases, beef m quarters, and boneless beef and sundries in freight carcases: — 1933 1932 Beet . * • • 120,1560 '26,611 Wether mutton , • 415,757 501,496 Ewe . . • • 471,687 603,079 Lamb .. ~ 2,215,942 1,939.716 Porkers .. .. 8,890 » 31.035 Bxconera .. .. 1/.304 3,50S Boneless bed .. 84,228 114,307 Sundries ■ . • • 36,901 .52.9-.1 Stocks loaded into vessels not departed from New Zealand on April 10, with the previous season's figures m parentheses, were as follows 10,650 (950):; wether mutton, 2,2,21b (30,415); ewe, 14,650 (45,198); lamb, 333,070 (3,'50,283); porkers, 246 a (6349); baccners, 2390 (3217).