Slaughterings of Stock
District Cattle Calves Sheep Of which Ewes were Lambs Swine Meat-export Slaughterous 3S North I stand Auckland Poverty Bay-Hawke’s Bay Taranaki-Manawatu . . ar Wellington . . 80,704 20,078 46,719 15,710 518,903 56,162 208,377 - 17,813 39,863 87,522 55,987 35,035 18,624 23,859 27,130 14,657 75,892 132,034 167,004 69,919 56,208 6,993 36,029 7,083 Totals ■ . . Abattoirs 163,211 62,563 . 801,255 20,687 218,407 ■ 247,842 84,270 128,780 444,849 17,005 106,313 48,140 North Island Totals 225,774 821,942 466,249 213,050 461,854 154,453 Meat-export Slaughter South Island — South I sland Nelson-Marlborough Canterbury Of ago-Southland . . . . 597 5,751 3,199 8,984 35,798 37,044 5,433 151,072 62,409 2,114 110,014 39,853 23,420 435,833 572,445 2,134 12,238 2,076 Totals Abattoirs ... . . . . 9,547 29,284 81,826 6,203 218,914 142,363 151,981 69,503 1,031,698 11,326 16,448 14,413 South Island Totals. 38,831 88,029 361,277 221,484 1,043,024 30,861 Dominion Meat-expt. Slaughterhouses Abattoirs . . . . . . 172,758 91,847 883,081 26,890 437,321 390,205 236,251 198,283 1,476,547 28,331 122,761 62,553 Grand Totals . . . . 264.605 909,971 827.526 i 434,534 | 1,504,878 185,314 In addition the following stock were slaughtered for local consumption during the 6 months ended 30/9/39, at rural slaughterhouses. 39,522 1,136 115,862 (unknown) 4,363 13,628 Same Period, 1938: Meat-export ' Slaughterhouses and Abattoirs . . Rural slaughterhouses . . 248,500 44,240 878,953 1,292 938,762 107,144 543,511 (unknown) 1,339,795 3,807 255,844 14,079 Same Period, 1937: Meat-export Slaughterhouses and Abattoirs . . Rural slaughterhouses . . 261,981 45,301 924,320 1,117 753,887 107,370 408,273 (unknown) 1,449,145 3,077 295,444 14,285
THE following return of slaughterings of stock at meat-export slaughterhouses and abattoirs for the six months, May-October, 1939, has been compiled by the Livestock Division :—
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 59, Issue 6, 15 December 1939, Page 530
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242Slaughterings of Stock New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 59, Issue 6, 15 December 1939, Page 530
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