NEW COOL STORES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2630, 27 November 1915, Page 8

NEW COOL STORES

OPENED, BY SIB JOSEPH WARD. ili> PrpAA ■' AH^icforjou I nveroarglll, November 26. At tho Bluff to-day. Sir Joseph Ward opened tho new cool dairy, store, one of the most up to date in. the Dominion. ... Tho- - store. lias a capacity , of 25,000 crates,, 0r50,000 cheeses. There was ; a very representative gathering of-, members of the South Island Dairy •Association'' / ahd/directors of tho Southland dairy factories. There wero six thousand, crates of chetso in the store at-the time. Mr. A. .F. IT&wke, chairman of the Bluff Harbour Board, caJled upon Sir Joseph Ward to open the store. formaJly. .. Sir Joseph Ward dealt with the rapid 'development of the dairying industry, and.'said the time'was close' ot hand when dairy produce 'would be second in importance in point of value in our exports. Commenting'on;the action of tho Imperial Government, through tho Now Zealand Government, requisitioning tlie'.meat'exports ; and, a third of the cheese exports, -he said that since March 3 to November 22 there had been shipped an . roundiriumbers 354,000 quarters of beef, .2,0.68,000 carcasses of mut- ■ ton, and 2j999,b00 carcasses of lamb. Of this; 221,0ti0'quarters' of beef, 1.471,000 carcasses mutton,'and 2 ; 174;000 carcasses lamb bad already arrived St their: destination, - of- '-a value of nearly £6,000,000. : . Tho fact'that so much of the Dominion's produce had been requisitioned and'exportcd with 'so extra-. 'ordinarily little friction, showed'how the Government and tlie producers had cooperated.' The spirit of co-operation 'among'all'classes' throughout" tho Empire jn'ould, enable the Imperial Govern-ment-'to bring victory to the British arms. A luncheon followed the formal opening, the gathering'beingi very, successful., : ;... „i'