MEAT EXPORT SEASON

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22214, 14 September 1935, Page 9

MEAT EXPORT SEASON

EXPANSION IN SHIPMENTS LOWER BEEF FIGURES RETURNS FOR 11 MONTHS Substantial improvement in exports of all classes of meat, with the exception of frozen quarter beef, is shown in returns for 11 months of the season to August 31 issued by the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board. The decline in beef shipments is largely offset by a great increase in exports of chilled beef. Shipments of mutton for the period totalled 1,866,385 carcases, against 1,622,996 carcases last season, while lamb exports amounted to 8,701,689 carcases, compared with 8,374,985 carcases. Pork exports rose from 421,470 carcases to 573,894, while an increase of 35,985 bags occurred in shipments of boneless beef, which totalled 262,368 bags. Exports of chilled beef increased from 18,528 quarters to 61,245 quarters, but frozen beef declined from 400,135 quarters to 346,189 quarters. Killings of stock for export this season to August 31 compare with the same period last year as follows: ]934-35 1933-34 Beef (quarters) .. 400.311 350,9.'!2 Wethers (carcases) . . 949,332 841,968 Ewes (carcases) 1,197,5(56 987,302 Lambs (carcases) . . 8.539.265 8,751,941 Porkers (carcases) .. 423,176 346,613 Bnconers (carcases) . . 152 779 100,377 Boneless beef (ft. carcases) .. .. 331.335 • 512,678 Sundries (ft. carcases) 406,657 271,769 The total amount of meat in store in New Zealand at the end of August, with the totals for August 31, 1934, in parentheses, was as follows: —Beef (quarters), 72,509 (99,208); wethers I (carcases), 107,756 ( 71.235); ewes (carcases), 213,794 (133,579); lambs (carcases), 147,813 (284.672); porkers (carcases), 32,534 (38,938); baconers (carcases), 6282 (4161); boneless beef (freight carcases), 73,184 (185,946); sundries (freight carcases), 95,705 (58,779). Stocks in vessels not departed from New Zealand on August 31 compare as follows: —Beef, 1333 (9908); wethers, 9735 (32,819); ewes, 55.341 (35,240); lambs, 69,946 (162,3-18); porkers, 188 (8961); baconers, 279 (2619).

ARGENTINE INDUSTRY r ■ MORE MANUFACTURES AID FROM EXCHANGE RATE It is not generally recognised that the Argentine is a manufacturing country, but secondary industries recently have grown rapidly, largely as the result of currency devaluation and the imposition of a surtax of 10 per cent. These factors have more than counterbalanced the tariff concessions made to Great Britain in 1933, and it is estimated that the total volume of goods produced in the Argentine approximates roughly that of either cereals or meat. The production of woollen and cotton goods is expanding rapidly, about threequarters of the country's requirements of piece-goods being satisfied by local mills, states an official report just issued. The engineering industry is handicapped by the absence of local raw material, but is making important progress, while most building materials are home-produced. Moreover, nearSy all the every-day requirements of domestic and personal use are supplied locally in all but the best qualities. "Thus Argentina furnishes another example of the anomalies that exist in commercial treaty relationships today," comments the London Times. "Between countries which in the main are primary producers and Great Britain, the world's leading manufacturer, agreements have been mad© stipulating favourable treatment for United Kingdom finished goods on the one side in return for favourable treatment for raw materials or foodstuffs iri Great Britain on the other. Yet one primary producing country after another is busily rendering itself as independent as possible of imported manufactures while seeking increasing outlets for its raw produce."