MEAT PRODUCTION

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5599, 31 March 1943, Page 4

MEAT PRODUCTION

KILLINGS TO MID-MARCH

The official figures of killings for the present season at the Dominion’s freezing works from Ist October to 13th March, as issued by the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, show that lamb killings now total 7,176,975 carcases, compared with 7,597,678 carcases to 14th March last season, this being a decrease of 420,703 carcases. Wether mutton killings are 280,604 carcases, and ewe mutton killings 1,097,117 carcases, compared with 510,380 and 1,185,986 carcases respectively last season. Details of the lamb and mutton killings in the North and the South Islands, with figures for the previous season in parentheses, are as follows: North Island.—Lamb carcases 4,402,013 (4,459,744). South Island.— 2,774,962 (3,137,934); wether mutton carcases 267,978 (473,465), 12,626 (36,915); ewe mutton carcases 903,509 (794,229), 191,608 (391,757). Frozen beef production has reached 165,409 quarters, compared with 171,138 quarters last season. Porker killings total 40,024 carcases, a decrease of 57,817, whilst baconers total 77,972 carcases, a decrease of 111,924.