DOMINION MEAT.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19012, 1 August 1933, Page 5

DOMINION MEAT.

EXPORTS TO BRITAIN. REGULATION OF SHIPMENTS. / A DIFFICULT SEASON. (Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Monday, As compared with ) last season, which was an exceptionally early one, the opening of the 1932-33 -season was somewhat*' belated, due mainly to -climatic conditions and labour difficulties, states the annual report of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, in commenting on the regulation of shipments. As a result, the early killings of mutton and lamb were much below the previous season. The delay in the killings of lambs in the early part of the season oreated difficulties in the work of spreading shipments. It was not until March, that the killings of lamb caught up to the previous season’s figure to the same date, and then they went ahead, and in the middle of May the killings of lamb amounted to 561,108 more than up to the same date In the previous season. After that the difference became less with -succeeding months, and the total kill of lambs for the season will probably finish up very little, if any, ahead of last year’s record.

The foregoing and ether factors have' contributed towards maklrtg the board’s work of regulating the shipments particularly difficult this season. On the one hand it is very important to ensure adequate quantities going forward, whilst at the same time avoiding the danger of a glut of meat on the Home markets. On the other hand the board has -endeavoured- to do -everything possible to avoid congestion in the works, but it must never lose sight of its main, objective to regulate shipments to the best advantage, having regard to the months of greatest consumption.

Extending the Market.

The operation of the "chain” -system will facilitate killings at the various works,-and the board is closely watching this new development in our Industry. ' The stocks of mutton -and lamb held in store in the Dominion as at June 30 during the last three years were as follows:-

1933 1932 1931 Wethers . 364,552 376,217 421,582 Ewes .. 371,641 503,397 320,252 L-amb3 .. 1,399,800 1,424,732, 1,281,800

■\\fith the increasing quantities of larflb now being shipped to the Home market the greatest consideration must be given to the spread of arrivals and the imperative need of extending -our trade in the provinces and Scotland. With this object in view, in, addition to allotting as much space as possible for loading to West of England ports, the board has also paid special attention, to these markets in its propaganda work, by means of its travelling representative, who, in addition To keeping in touch with wholesalers -and retailers, has been doing very valuable work in advertising -our lamb, at special "New Zealand Weeks" in selected highly populated areas, and in other directions.