MEAT PRODUCTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17918, 24 October 1932, Page 10

MEAT PRODUCTS

THE BRITISH MARKET EMPIRE’S SMALL SHARE LONDON, fug. 18. The importance of the United Ringloin as a market for meat products, and the small share of the total imports it present enjoyed by the Empire countries are brought out in an Empire Marketing Board survey issued to-day. In ;ui analysis of the distribution of livestock the Empire is shown as having more than a third of the world’s sliee'p and 40 per cent, of its cattle, but with no more than 4 per cent, of its pigs. The Empire imports 400,000 to 5U0,dOO tons of chilled beef annually, and gains of chilled n't the expense of frozen beef have diminished the share of the Dominions in the United Kinglorn market. Foreign imports of lamb have increased, and are now 32 per cent, of the total; they were 23 per cent, in 1920. The New Zealand imports have also increased, and are more thau half of the total. 'The United Kingdom is a heavy importer of bacon, and imports from outside the Empire have been increasing of recent years, averaging well over 400,000 toils annually. Ninety per cent, of the imports of bacon and ham were of foreign origin, about 70 per cent, of the bacon coming from Denmark and 80 per cent, of the ham from the United States. Empire countries send only some 1 per cent, of the total import* of canned meat into Croat' Britain. The home farmer produces about 43 per cent, of the mutton and lamb; 3,000,000 cuts, of pork are produced locally, of which about one-half probably * goes for curing. The _ import figure is more than double this.