IMPERIAL SUPPLIES DEPARTMENT.
OVER £57,000,000 PAID OUT. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, March 21. The Prime Minister stated in the course of a specch at Bombay to-day, that the payments made since March, 1915, when the Imperial Supplies Department was established, till tho middle of the present month, amounted to £57,651,200, while another £20,000.000 would be added by the end of the year. The chief items were: — £ Frozen meat (three years) 22,500,000 Wool (two years) 22,500,000 Cheese (three years) ... 7,000,000 Butter (one year) ... 2,000,000 Mr Massey added that the estimated payments for butter during the present season were £1,669,000, and would probably be more. Ten years ago the export of cheese from New Zealand amounted to 121,322cwt., valued at £376,000, whereas the quantity exported last year represented £3,804,000. In Auckland province, 58 cheese factories were now operating, as compared with 13 ten years ago. The greater part of the increase had been in the last iour or five years.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16168, 23 March 1918, Page 11
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158IMPERIAL SUPPLIES DEPARTMENT. Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16168, 23 March 1918, Page 11
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