218 Growth and Development oj the Trade in Frozen Mxdton. 
were shipped, tlie distribution of the shipments among the four 
great carrying companies engaged in the trade, and the esti- 
mated weights and descriptions not only of mutton and lamb, 
but of beef also. The different figures of the mutton exports 
from those already quoted arise, of course, from the local record 
covering a later date. 
Mutton 
Beef 
Porta 
CO 
Lambs 
m 
03 
3 
t, 
C3 
3 
1 
o 
w 
<y 
w 
OOo 
7 4.1 J. 
12,630 
i o 
"WTrtll 1 n o*f f\Y\ 
226,484 
39,673 
1 ^ ,i7.70 
16,805 
250,377 
3,352 
6 
Timaru 
76,499 
— 
— 
3,574 
— 
Oamaru 
75 976 
9,925 
1 Ofifi 
Port Chalmers . . . 
143',388 
3,047 
1,100 
J51uff 
36,275 
3,874 
1,213 
Total. . . . 
968,665 
40,331 
7,414 
92,073 
11,293 
16,889 
879 
Lines of Vessels. 
Shaw, Savill, and Albion 
Co 
364,566 
17,962 
41,022 
3,695 
11,393 
New Zealand Shipping 
Co 
282,646 
21,769 
25 
27,335 
2,103 
5,418 
879 
Colonial Union Co. . . 
197,756 
600 
7,389 
11,384 
4,785 
78 
Turnbull Martin & Co. . 
123,697 
12,332 
710 
Total. . . . 
968,665 
40,331 
7,414 
92,073 
11,293 
16,889 
879 
Total Weights. 
Mutton 
lb>. 
Lambs 
Beet 
lbs. 
Carcasses 
lbs. 
968,665 car-1 
casses at 60 [ 
lbs. each J 
40,331 legs at) 
8 lbs. each / 
7,414 haunches 
58,119,900 
322,648 
150,339 
, 92,073 ^ 
at 28 lbs. [ 
^ each 1 
2,578,044 
f ll,293qrs.^ 
at 190 lbs. [ 
\ each 1 
r 16,889 1 
I pieces / 
1 879 1 
I haunches J 
2,145,670 
2,955,744 
180,744 
58,592,887 
2,578,044 
5,282,158 
The districts and the sheep vary a good deal in character, 
and there has been little or no grading of the consignments in 
each cargo. One ship brings over many small lots belonging 
to different people and consigned to different agents. This 
want of uniformity has, it is said, frequently hindered the trade, 
a variation of as much as 2d. per lb. being noticed between 
