RUMOURS CONTRADICTED

Chronicle (Levin), 10 May 1946, Page 5

RUMOURS CONTRADICTED

- Press Association

By Telegrav h-

WELLINGTON, May 0. SugiU'nticMis tlmt more stringcnt iiicat intioning would be useloss betaiisc rlic -ool stores throughoul the : Idiiiiiiiioii were ulready full because | sliipj'iatt was not available to transj piiit lueat to Britain, were denied toj dti \ tiy tlie general inanager of the j New Zealuud Meat Producers' Board, f -M i. .!. .1. Evans. Botli storage and | shi were satisfactory, lie said. It ! ivas cxjiccted next season would open [ v.itl, t 1m- stores tliroughout New Zear land v. Tliere was no possibiiity [ tlmt if nmre ineat were made available' [ by ration cuts, tjiat Britain would be, I uimldt- i(. Jind shipping to lift it. Mr. I Kvan> nnoted tlve follov. ing iigures: — I Ib at in More lnid-.Iauuary, 70,000 ! E toi.-. ; shijipcd in the three nionths fronij I ii/id .biiinary to mid-April, 01,000 tons; j I li'inii.Tii iig in store inid -April, 151,000 I tons; siMiage spaee still available in I ii.ii! Api il, 0(1,000 tons, excluding 55,000 I tuiis nf I'reezing chaiubur spaee that 1 ci ulii i used in emerg ney; expected I to go ini o store from niid-April ti II the E emi nf tiu. current season, 85,000 tons; I sel.ftiuh'fl for Joading during Mav and I •huic, sii.ooo to 100,000 tons. '"If I tiun - were no shipment of meat at all | fi'om niid-April till the begiimiug of I next season hite in November, the or1 diiiary storage s])aee available, 00,000 ■ ttijis. could more than aecommodate 1 liillinus to conie, 85,000 tons," said INans. "Jn faet, however, shipiiirenls scheduled for the next tvvo ■ to the end of June, 80,000 to I -00,01111 tons, will amount to more thart I we expect to ltill in tlie next three 1 niiiiitlis to the eiul of July. Further I shipjiing will not eease at tlie end of E •' n ne. It is eoming regularly at the E cit'1 of tlie meat year. In Reptember | h«s| tliere were in store onlv 21,000 it'nis. ]„ the light of the liftings this B ■s-'!ts(m it is -fair to estimate we will I bave even a better clearance. What reBm.'jiiis in September will be gone before 1 the end of November when the new e season opens. ' '