FROZEN MEAT TRADE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 78, 11 March 1931, Page 8

FROZEN MEAT TRADE

LARGE INCREASE IN EXPORTS. Very large increases in the export of frozen meat from the Dominion during the five months of the current season ended February 28, are shown in the latest returns issued by the Meat Board. With some minor exceptions the whole of the meat was shipped to Great Britain, tin London market making by far the largest, quantity. The exports, with those for the corresponding period of the 1920-30 season in parentheses, wore as follow:—Lamb. 2,407,559 carcases (1,947,060); mutton, 3,082,334 carcases (503,251); pork. 00,783 carcases (52,027); beef, 45 094 quarters (35,052); beef: (boneless), 51,121 bags (23,585). The killings of stock for export at all Dominion works during the five months ended February, also show large increases compared with the corresponding period of last year, as follow:

1930-31. 1929-30. Hoof (quarters) 45.333 03,560 Wether unit., (c/cs.) fi03,fi8fi 085,509 Ewe mut, (c/cs.) . 390,22fi 400,487 Lamb (e/cs.) .. . . 4,091,224 : !,203,391 Pork, porki s (c/cs) 69,350 41,303 Pork, bacon, (c/cs.) 10,007 21,000 Boneless beef (frt. c/cs.) 75,073 81,901 Sundries (frt. c/cs) 80,394 55,050