PREFERENCE FOR LAMB

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22595, 7 December 1936, Page 5

PREFERENCE FOR LAMB

ENGLISH CONSUMPTION BEEF AND VEAL POPULAR WORLD TRADE DECLINES [from our own correspondent] LONDON, Nov. 14 There has been a tendency for lamb to displace mutton in the United Kingdom within recent years and imports of lamb in 1935 comprised 75 per cent of combined mutton and lamb imports, against 63 per cent in 1929. These figures are given in a summary published by the Imperial Economic Committee.

Beef production in the principal producing countries of the world declined between 1925 and 1931, but an appreciable recovery has since occurred. Slaughterings of sheep for the production of mutton and lamb show an opposite trend, increasing to about 193233 and declining since. The trend of pig meat production tends to be obscured by the short period cyclical variations, but was undoubtedly upward over the period, particularly in Europe. By 1933, however, the output was beginning to decline in exporting countries and the downward movement has been accentuated by the recent drastic reduction in the United States pig population.

It is evident that there has been a downward trend in beef consumption and a change-over to mutton and pork in post-war years generally, but that, at least in some cases, these tendencies have been apparently reversed within the past two years. In the United Kingdom, between 1925 and 1932, beef and veal consumption is estimated -to have declined from about 70 to 611b. per head, and pig meat and mutton to have risen respectively from 43 to 511b. and from 26 to 321b. But by 1935, apparent beef and veal consumption had increased to nearly 671b., while pii£ meat had declined to under 441b. and mutton and lamb to 301b. World trade in meat as a whole declined by about 12 per cent, between 192!) and 1935, a phenomenon largely connected with the restrictive action and growing production of importing countries. Over the past decade the volume of beef entering international trade has declined, while that of pig meat has increased. The increase in world trade in beef during the immediate post-war period, when European countries were rebuilding depleted herds, was followed by a downward trend up to 1932. ENGLISH BUTTER MARKET DOMINION UNDER-SELLING RESENTMENT OF FARMERS [BY tELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Saturday British farmers, particularly those engaged in milk production, were not too kindly disposed toward the way in which the Dominion farmers were undef-selling them on the butter market at Home, according to Mrs. H. N. Savill, who arrived by the Akaroa from England to-day on a round trip. Mrs. Savill has a farm at Home as a hobby, and has made an intensive study of milk production and marketing methods. Anything that helped outside dairy produce into England was resented by British dairy farmers, Mrs. Savill said. British farmers were now getting the idea that the only way to recover their position was to have a severe tariff on importations, so that outside butter might be brought rip to the price of the Home-produced article. Their living was at stake, and in spite of low wages they were producing at a loss under existing conditions.

DEPARTMENT'S REPORT RETAIL CHEESE PRICE FALLS [BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Sunday The following information is supplied regarding'\ London markets by the Primary Products Marketing Department, which received it by cablegram from London: — Putter. —New Zealand, salted, 104s; (insulted, H6s to 118s. Deliveries: New Zealand, 1858 tons; in store, 3608 tons. The limrkct is quiet. Retail prices nilchanged, New Zealand, Is Id; Danish, Is .'3d.

Cheese. —New Zealand, white and coloured, 62s to 635. Deliveries: New Zealand, 15,844 crates. In store: 39.167 crates. New Zealand retail price, Bd. it decline of Id.

MONEY FOR BUTTER-FAT FACTORY IN SOUTHLAND LAST SEASON'S GOOD PAYMENT [dy telegraph—own correspondent] INVERCARGILL, Sunday Suppliers to tho Morton Mains Dairy Factory luive received a final bonus of 3d per lb. butter-fat for last season's milk, making a total of 14id for the season. This is Id per lb. more than the return from any other factory in Southland, and probably would nave been bigger but .'or the fact that the new factory was not finished in time for tho start of the season.

| RAMS FOR URUGUAY SHIPMENT OF CORRIEDALES FOUR CANTERBURY SHEEP After a thorough inspection of nil the Corriedale nuns exhibited at this year's Royal Show in Christcluireh four high-class animals were finally selected for shipment to Uruguay, where they will join other New Zealand-bred animals in tho stud of Dr. A. C. Gallinal Heber, a prominent South American pastoralist. The four animals chosen for export are all from the Riversleigh stud of Mr. James Reid, Canterbury. They will bo shipped to Montevideo by tho Pakeha, which is due to leave New Zealand on December 12. In giving his instructions to the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, for tho purchase of rams, Dr. Heber specified that any animals bought on his behalf must bo sheep of the highest quality as the Society of Corricdale Breeders in Uruguay would not admit inferior sheep to its registered flocks. Tho stud rams selected comprise one woolly four-tooth, one shorn foilr-tooth and two woolly hoggets. The two hoggets, RIO and R5, are both from tho same family, and are particularly attractive animals, being prize-winners at the Royal Show in tho section for pens of five hoggets. This is the fourth consignment made by tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, to Kstaneia Mongon Heber, where Dr. Heber has established a large stud of New Zealand type Corriedales, which are' in strong demand throughout Uruguay.