DOMINION EXPORTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2749, 18 April 1916, Page 6

DOMINION EXPORTS

TOTALS FOR YEAR ENDED : i MARCH 31. By .Telegraph—Press Association. Feilding, April 17. The Prime Minister (the Ri»ht Hon. W. F. Massey) to-day opened the Feilding Freezing Works, which cost over £50,000, and: have a capacity for 1200 sheep and 60 cattle per day. Mr. Masisey remarked that the exports for the year to March 31, 1916, was as follow: £ Meat • 7,423,399 Butter 2,949,787 Cheese ; . 3,197,800 Wool- 11,769,297 The total value of the exports for the year was £33,781,711, a record which no country in the world had equalled in proportion to population. 'Since the inception of the Imperial Meat Scheme the payments for meat totalled £8,448,317. Eighty-seven ships had been dispatched, and at "present seven insulated ships were on the New Zealand coast, and more were arriving. The total capacity of the steamers now on. the coast and to arrive by the end of June and available for, the o a onn a i™ 0 r "J 0 ? 4 dairy produco' was freight carcasses.

PROBLEM OF SHIPPING SPACE. <By Telegraph.—From a Correspondent I A '' Fefding. April 17. fepealang at the opening of the new freezing works at Feilding this afternoon the Prime Minister referred at some length to 1 - the problom of providing shipping facilities for our produce and the very great difficulties in maintaining a sufficient supply of insulated snips for our oversea trade. Although May would probably prove to be our worst month an ample amount of space would be available in June, and "the 1 rime Minister anticipated that all the meat m store would ba cleared at the end .of the season.