MEAT SHIPMENTS
ALLOTMENT OF CARGO SPACE CANTERBURY PROTESTS (By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
Chrlstohurch, April 20. The chairman of the Now Zealand Overseas Shipowners' Committee has replied to an urgent telegram sent from the representative Canterbury Committee set up at the rcccnt conference as follows: —"Your telegram of the 10th inst. was considered to-day by tho committee, who have asked me to send the following reply:—The committee have to deal with tho export of meat from New Zealand as a whole, and with the limited tonnage at their disposal made allotments for the May shipments ou what thoy considered a fair and equitable basis to all frozen meat companies The conditions of the present season are quite abnormal, and consequently it is impossible to treat tho figures of any previous season as a reliable basis, for comparison with the present one. I regret that no alteration in the allotments for May. can be made." The Canterbury Committee thereupon sent the following Wellington to-day: "We have to thank you for your telegram of yesterday. . _We quite recognise that with tho limited tonnage at your committee's disposal you can only allot May shipments on what you consider a fair and equitable basis." AVe have given the matter the fullest consideration, having due regard to the reasonable claims of other districts, but we are still quite unable to imagine what basis could possibly jusfcifv such an allocation as has been notified to the companies controlling the eight factories previously referred to, more particularly in consideration of the extraordinarily heavy shipments the North Island has already been granted. As the matter is particularly vital to all the districts affected, but on account of tho gravity of the feed position, more particularly to Canterbury, we consider we are justified on behalf of the community in asking for a definite announcement as to the actual basis upon which you have based your allotments." . The Islington works will close down to-morrow, and it is not expected that anv relief will bo obtained until tho first week in May. After that, killing will probably be intermittent. The Burnside works are practically closed, and works at Tima.ru and Pukeuri are in the same state, and there seem* little hope of relief until the end cf Mav. The Belfast works are closed until May 3, when killing will re-com-mence for a little, followed by intermittent. work. Fairfield closes this week, and opens and carries on the same as Belfast. Pareora will run on killing in a small way until about the middle of Mav, when it will follow suit, and work very intermittently.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2441, 21 April 1915, Page 8
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431MEAT SHIPMENTS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2441, 21 April 1915, Page 8
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