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Final Purchase and Sale Account, 1944-45 Season's Killings Dr. £ £ Cr. £ £ Stock 011 hand and loadings not departed at 31st Sales— July, 1945 .. .. .. 7,446,802 Shipments to United Kingdom after 31st July, Less preserved meat transferred to 1945-46 1945— Purchase and Sale Account .. .. 46,575 Lamb .. .. .. .. .. 4,566,240 7,400,227 Wether mutton .. .. .. 272,176 Purchases after 31st July, 1945— Ewe mutton .. .. .. .. 672,916 Lamb .. .. .. .. .. 17,982 Beef and veal .. .. .. .. 1,428,976 Wether mutton .. .. .. .. 2,038 Boner bull beef .. .. .. .. 60,819 Ewe mutton .. .. .. .. 10,244 Boner cow beef.. .. .. .. 12,658 Beef and veal .. .. .. .. 38,244 Pig-meat .. .. .. .. 384,791 Boner bull beef .. .. .. .. 6,850 Offals .. .. .. .. .. 198,702 Boner cow beef .. .. .. .. 14,424 7,597,278 Pig-meat .. .. .. . . 58,908 Local deliveries (including for United States Offals .. .. .. .. .. 11,840 Armed Forces)— 160,530 Lamb .. .. .. .. .. 237,620 Allowance for administration and general expenses (f per cent. Wether mutton .. .. .. .. 56,108 on Sales, £7,499,034), carried to Administration and General Ewe mutton .. .. .. .. 4,178 Expenses Account .. .. .. .. .. 28,121 Beef and veal .. .. .. .. 773,054 Transfer to Meat Industry Stabilization Account £ Boner bull beef .. .. .. .. 6,291 (being net proceeds of increases in sale prices Boner cow beef .. .. .. .. 113,282 of meat after 15th December, 1942) .. 1,608,737 Pig-meat.. .. .. .. .. 275,087 Less amount of increases in purchase-prices of Offals .. .. ~ 44,873 meat after Ist October, 1944 .. .. 758,612 1,510,493 850,125 Surplus on transactions after 31st July, 1945, carried to Meat Pool Account .. .. .. .. .. 668,768 £9,107,771 £9,107,771

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