Slaughterings of Stock

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 60, Issue 1, 15 January 1940, Page 25

Slaughterings of Stock

r T'*HE following returns of slaughtering of stock at meat-export slaughter--1 houses and abattoirs for the seven months, May-November, 1939, has been compiled by the Livestock Division: During the period under review the estimated number of lambs tailed was 17,017,395. , / " ' - ;

District . Cattle Calves Sheep . Of which Ewes were Lambs Swine North Island Meat-export Slaughterhouse Auckland .. ■ Poverty Bay-Hawke’s Bay Taranaki-Man .. Wairarapa-Wellington , . . s—' 90,222 . 20,905 49,981 - 16,149 North I , 557,089 59,211 221,837 17,965 sland r 51,403 109,859 59,666 44.320 23,867 35,441 29,007 16,169 128,155 , 368,222 211,900 97,794 86,641 9,019 51,633 10,825 Totals ... Abattoirs , . . . . 177,257 • 71,907 856,102 24,022 265,248 289.551 104.484 151.484 806,071 24,454 158,118 60,278 North Island Totals 249,164 - 880,124 554,799 255,968 830,525 218,396 Meat-export Slaughterhouse Nelson-Marlborough Canterbury .. .. Otago-Southland . . ‘S — 604 6,435 3,354 South I 9,675 39,474 40,260 sland ■ : 5,540 154,135 62,763 ' ' . l 2,121 111,999 39,995 25,014 436,434 572,468 2,693 14.942 2.414 Totals . . '.. Abattoirs . . . 10.393 33,627 89,409 7,737 222,438 165,691 154,115 80,331 1,033,916 14,378 20,049 16.681 South Island Totals 44,020 97,146 388,129 . 234,446 1,048,294 36,730 Dominion ' ■ ■■ - ’ " • Meat-expt. Slaughterhouses Abattoirs " . . .. . . 187,650 105.534 Dominion 945,511 487,686 31,759 | 455,242 487,686 258,599 455,242 231,815 258,599 1,839,987 231,815 38.832 1,839,987 178,167 ■ 38,832 76,959 178,167 76,959 Grand Totals 293,184 977,270 942.928 490,414 | 1,878,819 1,878,819 255,126 255.126 Same Period, 1938: Meat-export Slaughter houses and Abattoirs . : 278,337 945,963 1,046.119 585.238 1,718,591 348,384 same Period, 1937: Meat-export Slaughter houses and Abattoirs . 293,070 995,920 . 846,922 443,357 2,093,603 400,727