THE MEAT MARKET.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 3 December 1926, Page 4

THE MEAT MARKET.

PACKERS AT WAR. CHEAP BEEF IN BRITAIN. Tlie chairman of the N.Z. Farmers’ Co-operative Distributing Co., Ltd., speakingat the annual meeting in Feibling to-day, made interesting reference to the meat trade- . . “Reviewing the past, season,” sail! Mr Bryce, “we find, that, similarly to the previous year, the earlier prices i'or our live Stock were not maintained as thg seaspn advanced. Prime woolly lambs opened in the province at, Did per lb, and wethers at 6jd. February and March these prices dt?|P dined by about 2d per lb, but slightly' recovered towards the end of the season. “Beef has followed the same course, due, in large measure, to the continuation of the meat war at Home and on the Continent, between leading British and American packing interest's operating in tlie Argentine. Commenting on this conflict, the Daily Mail states that • the losses are probably running into £10,000,000, and that for the time being the British housewife is' getting cheap beef. “The figures! furnished by the Meat Board show .that our exports of frozen meat from Ist November, 1925, to 15th October, 15)26, were as follows: —Lambs, 5,052,351 carcases; mutton, 2,268,262 carcases; beef, 376,965 quarters —all considerable increases over 1925. “It sceiiistunlikely that the coming season will find values for lamb an’d mutton as high as last year, but for beef and pork a better demand is anticipated. It is pleasing to note a further increase in our sheep returns, the total at _ 30th April being 2'4,9(74,993, as 24,547,955 last year, an increase of ovc 1 350,000 sheep. ”