FROZEN MEAT TRADE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 244, 14 October 1937, Page 11

FROZEN MEAT TRADE

RECORD SHIPMENTS OF LAMB TWELVE MONTHS’ EXPORTS I Shipments of lamb from New Zealand during the twelve months endea September 3 were a record at 9,187,- ; 369 carcases, an increase of 447,489 carcases over the 1935-36 season. Exports of mutton totalled 1,800,570 carcases, a decrease of 69,650 carcases. Shipments of chilled beef in- i creased by 56,936 quarters to a total . of 201,105 quarters, but shipments of ' frozen beef at 188,128 quarters, showed a decrease of 17,140 quarters. - Pork shipments totalled 667,104 carcases, a decrease of 2340 carcases. Returns issued by the Meat Board give the following details of frozen meat shipments for the 1936-37 sea- j son as follow, the totals for 1935-3 n being shown for comparative purposes:—

Total 1935-36 205,268 1,870.220 8,739,880 669,444 Decrease 17,140 69,650 *44J,459 2,340 *lncrease. In addition, 201,105 quarters of chilled beef (London, 197,811; Southampton, 2752, and Honolulu, 542) were exported during the 12 months, compared with 144,169 quarters for ; 1935-36, an increase of 56,936 quarters. Shipments of boned beef for the last 12 months totalled 299fi413 , bags, an increase of 63,908 bags. Killings of lamb for export were a record at 9,183,263 carcases, an increase of 394,189 carcases. Killings of mutton for the twelve months i totalled 1,76,575 carcases, a decrease of 104,152 carcases. Total killings for the twelve months were as follow, those for 1935-36 being shown in par- , entheses:—Chilled beef (quarters’, 196,006 (148,032); frozen beef (quarters), 195.745 (188.134); wether mutton (carcases), 970,684 (1,143,247), ewe mutton (carcases), 805,891 (737,480); lamb (carcases), 9,183,263 (8,789,074); pork, porkers (carcases), 437,341 (459,871); pork, baconers (carcases), 243,155 (219,690); bones less beef (fTight carcases), 516,785 (408,520); boneless bobby veal (carcases), 270,384 (207,640); sundries,’ 314,990 (323.707). Stocks of meat in cold stores in the Dominion as at Sepl ember 30 were as follow, tn.? figures for the correspon ling da’e of last year being shown in parentheses:--Chilled beef (qua-ters), (1690); frozen beef (quarters), 34,156 (34.802); wether mutton (carcases), 66.832 (77.050). ; | ewe mutton (carcases). 68,617 1

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(71,522); iamb (carcases), 63,698 (15,862); pork, porkers (carcases), 31,840 (16,191>, pork, baconers (carcases). 9954 -.6732); boneless beef (freight carcases), 54.942 (41.597); boneless booby veal (carcases), 106.485 (96,418 •; sundries (carcases), 26 068 (26,288). Stocks of frozen meat loaded into vessels not Geparted from New Zealand at Septe nber 30 were as follow, last year’s figures being shown ut parentheses:—Chilled beef (quarters), 1165 (4609); frozen beef (quarters). 8337 <3458); wether mutton (carcases) 23 905 (43,105); ewe mutton (carcases). 61,648 (61,979); lamb (carcases), 56,232 (104,119); pork, porkers (carcases), 4375 (9486); porx, baconers (carcases), 450 (792).

Beef, Mutton, Lamb, Pork, London 122.029 1,418,198 6,736.902 381,705 Southamp1,374 89.280 611.846 3.121 iiuii .. .. 1,934 4,025 17.995 465 • Newcastle-on-Tvnc .. 3.406 8.021 35.292 Liverpool 29,957 197,421 1,015,638 5::.403 Glasgow 9,882 27,622 76,301 178,350 • A von mouth 11.033 4 5.893 457,748 33.112 Manchester 750 6,627 208,608 1,5*63 ' Cardiff . 200 3,239 22,674 New York 1,200 — — — 1 Canada (East Coast ports 150 100 10 _ ■ Boston . 8 — . Honolulu 430 — 2.363 — 1 Other Pacific Islands .. — 141 389 iG4; Calcutta . — — 343 1 Hongkong — — 850 — : R olie 4,161 — 2 — j Osaka . 2*2 — — — | Yokohama 1,580 — — — 1 Singapore — — 400 — 1 1 Total, 1936-37 188,128 1,800,570 9,187,369 667.104 |