FROZEN MEAT EXPORTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2716, 22 January 1910, Page 2

FROZEN MEAT EXPORTS.

A RECORD YEAR

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., for the Shaw, Savill and Albion Co., have prepared the following return shewing the exports of frozen meat from the Dominion for the six months ended December 31st. 1909. The figures for the first six months of the year are also shown, as are the totals of both periods combined. Port. Mutton. Lamb. Beef. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. A’ek I'll cl 62,072 1,233 1,832,023 G’sb’ne 3,368,288 678,743 4,627,671 Napier 5.996,085 2,397,739 5,23< ,239 Waitara 435,152 90,405 4-.935.910 W’ng’n’i 543.690 147,837 1,097,531 Pa tea 102.117 W’lg’n 7,103,311 2,502,612 7,199,902 Nelson Picton 53.000 97,106 • Lt'lt'n 4.502,079 4,111.511 168,320 T’m’ru 2.983.830 2.862,071 Oam’ru 262.18-9* 115.214 P. Ch’.l’rs 896,428 970,408 203,498 Bluff 3,851.404 2.626,103 152,337 Total 29,959.625 16,601,063 26,298,489 Half-year -end ' ing .June 31, 1909 76,445,878 92,966,700 27,501,343 Total for vear 1909. —Mutton, 106,405,5031 b; -lamb, 109.567,7631 b; beef. 53.5C0,4321b. Previous year.—Mutton, 102,574,690 lb; lamb, 91,128,7501 b ; beef. 38,103.466 ib.' The figures for the year constitute a record output of frozen meat horn tiio Dominion. Tlie previous best vas in 1903, some 28.000,6001 b lower, and last season the totals were 38,000 .PfMj’.o lower. For the first time in the history of tlie Dominion the export of ■lamb has been greater than that of mutton, and the figures for beef are also greater than over before, being over IG.OOO.COOIb higher than in 1908.