Slaughterings of Stock

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 61, Issue 1, 15 July 1940, Page 42

Slaughterings of Stock

THE following returns of slaughterings of stock at meat-export slaughter1 houses and abattoirs for the month of May, 1940, have been compiled by the Livestock Division:

Of which | District Oatttle Calves ' Sheep Ewes Lambs Swine were North Island

Meat Export Slaughterhouses— Auckland . . , . . Poverty Bay - Hawkes Bay Taranaki-Manawatu Wairarapa-Wellington 42,885 21,019 25,506 12,251 5,765 3,004 1,224 895 39,433 82,334 ’ 53,583 37,529 26,184 32,107 31,809 20,966 61,570 81,569 101,825 72,868 51,221 4,927 32,842 6,506 Totals - . . . . ,. Abattoirs . . 101,661 12,448 10,888 4,729 212,879 41,512 111,066 22,159 317,832 4,752 95,496 14,208 North Island Totals 114,109 15,617 254,391 133,225 322,584 109,704 South Island Meat Export OlctUgllltJl JlOlir Nelson-Marlborough Canterbury ' .. .. Otago-Southland .. • .. es— 210 2,359 2,734 1 1,574 3 19,269 156,652 122,598 8,486 129,616 101,093 34,962 241,271 409,367 1,841 3,845 1,070 Totals .. .. .. Abattoirs . . . . .. 5,303 5,559 1,578 1,524 298,519 24,423 239,195 12,450 685,600 2,857 6,756 4,404 South Island Totals 10,862 3,102 322,942 251,645 688,457. 11,160 Meat expt; Slaughterhouses Abatt oirs . . - 106,964 18,007 Dominion 1 12,466 | 511,398 6,253 | 65,935 350,261 34,609 1,003,432 7,609 ' L; 102,252 18,612 Grand Totals 124,971 . 18,719 577,333 384,870 1,011,041 120,864 Same Period, 1939 Meat Export Slaughterhouse b and Abattoirs . . 87,359 22,070 359,400 190,813 948,418 83,869 Same Period, 1938 —' Meat Export f Slaughterhouse! and Abattoirs . . 66,626 | 11,366 332,619 202,329 824,812 113,645 1 332,619 202,329 824,812 113,645