MEAT EXPORTS.
INCREASES REPORTED. 'ruin*"'*'"' Assi.ctf .ion. WELLINGTON, May 1. Official returns supplied by the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board for 6i months of the current season to April 15, show increases in shipments of all classes of frozen meat, compared with the corresponding period of last season. The killings of stock for export during the same period show a small increase in lamb, a decrease in mutton, and large increases in pork and beef. . An analysis of the returns gives the following increases in shipments of frozen ow 1 from the Dominion from October 1927, to April 15, 1928, coinpared with tire corresponding period of last season:— Lamb 696,710 carcases. Mutton 116,794 carcases. Beef 108,752 quarters. Pork 18,177 carcases. The killings of stock for export during the same periods afford the following comparisons:—
Lamb, increase, 179,616. Mutton, decrease, 230,540. Pork, increase, 60,372. Beef, increase, 183,851 quarters, and 53,982 freight carcases of boneless beef. The total shipments of frozen meat from October 1, 1927, to April 15, 1928,
were:— Beef 130,676, mutton 928,894, lamb 3,007,824, pork 69,190.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17945, 2 May 1928, Page 17
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177MEAT EXPORTS. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17945, 2 May 1928, Page 17
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