IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT MEAT SUPPLY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2552, 28 August 1915, Page 8

IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT MEAT SUPPLY

V- : . • tip to and. including Thursday, the, ;..- meat purchased 'and';, shipped; by the. Imperial- -Government Meat Supply Branch, on behalf of the Imperial Government comprised: 183,371 quarters beef,'■*'?'■■■ 1,385,899■ -carcasses, 'mutton, • ' 2,032:336 carcasses-lamb. -Of this quan- ■ ' aity/v" 111,731. .quarters , beef, . 708,786 Carcasses mutton;. 1,229,230...;carca55e5, lamb have'already!arrived at their- des--' : tination,'s9,2Bl quarters beef, .530,988 ' ' , carcasses • mutton, - • 705,729.; carcasses lamb are en rftuto in the following ■ ; steamere: Indrabarah, Waiwera, l'onga- ■ . nro, Indrapura,.'La Blanca, Delphic, lAthenic, Cormthic,. Euahino. Somerset, and the 1 balance, l c., 12,359 quarters beef, 137,125 carcasses mutton, 98,367 carcasses lamb has, been .loaded into tbe vessels'at'present on the load- -.■ berth' in' the Dominion. The- quan- • tity of meat in bforo oil. August- 14 - - '(the <lnto of the last 'stocktaking) was 1,650,907 601b. carcasses, but this is C■i- 'being tapidly ! rediic-edj/and after tho ■- ' departure : V)f the nine'.steamers expectK' : . Ed for' September loading, there should -■ be 7 -' considerably .than a. -.million, f reicclit: carcasses? in store. ..The total : purchases amount to-no.less a sum than ' £3,774,790 Bs. 7d. • !So' far there has only been a slight ad- ■ " vance on tho prices of, the famous Victor •• -Cheese 'Vats, and 'factories are now.-.or- : Xdering. ih view-.' of a .possible further in'i ''' crease;' Various .'causes will, shortly great-. ' - : .'ly'.inereasß ; the - cost, but order's received. t now will bo delivered in rotation and at • > present -prices. ' Albert J. Parton. CartertoDAdvt