LONDON’S MEAT.

Wairarapa Age, 12 August 1926, Page 7

LONDON’S MEAT.

WHERE IT COMES FROM. COMPARATIjV E ANALYSIS The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has been advised by its London Manager that the supply of meat and like produce to the London central markets during the six months ended .Tune 1926, aggregated 240,892 tons, as against 229,306 tons same period 1925 —an increase of 11,586 tons or 5.1 per cent. Imported supplies, apart from produce originating in Ireland, formed 82.9 per cent of the total quantity of produce marketed. British and Irish supplies aggregated 41,250 tons, or 17.1 per cent of the total supply; New Zealand 36,605 er 15.2 per cent; Australia 12,475 tons or 5.2 per cent; Canada 2,640 tons or 1.1 per cent; United States of America 1740 tons or 0.7 per cent; Argentine 103,140 tons or 42.8 per cent; Uruguay 11,636 tons or 4.9 per cent; Netherlands 21,229 tons or 8.8 per cent; and other foreign countries 10,177 tons or 4.2 per cent. Country of Origin. Beef and Vea1:—133,066 tons—B6.7 per cent imported. Argentine leading s with 91,653 tons or 68.9 per cent; Bri- * tain and Ireland 17,662 tons or 13.3 per cent; Uruguay 9,928 tons or 7.5 per cent; Australia 3,810 tons or 2.9 per , cent; Netherlands 4,247 ton s’or 3.2 per •’ cent; Canada 1,940 tons or 1.4 per cent; i New Zealand 836 tons or 0.6 per cent; I other countries 2,987 tons or 2.2 per cent. Mutton and Lamb:—7o,3sB tons—--80.8 per cent imported. New Zealand leading with 35,307 tons or 50.2 per cent; Britain aad Ireland 13,507 tens or 19.2 per cent; Argentine 11,134 tons or 15.8 per cent; Australia 6,931 tons or 9.9 per cent; Netherlands 1,641 tens or 2.3 per cent; Uruguay 1,708 tons or 2.4 per cent; other countries 130 tons or 0.2 per cent. P0rk:—23,112 tons —82.6 per cent imported. Netherlands leading with 14,612 tons or 63.2 per cent; Britain and Ireland 4,019 tons or 17.4 per cent; United States of America <j>ls tons or 2.2 per cent; Canada 554 tons or 2.4 per cent; other countries 3,412 or 14.8 per cent. The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has received a cable from its representative at Buenos Ayres, advising the following shipments to the United Kingdom for the fortnight ended August 5, from Argentine and Uruguay:—l92,72s quarters chilled beef, 11,698 frozen, 20,401 carcases frozen mutton, 36,155 lamb. The quantity shipped to Europe during the same period totalled:—--124,600 quarters frozen beef, 400 carcases frozen mutton.