MEAT CHEESE, & SCHEELITE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2757, 28 April 1916, Page 8

MEAT CHEESE, & SCHEELITE

/ONE- AND A BALF MILLIONS. .:;,'; • PAIDOUT.: , ..: : The Imperial Government, Supply Department have.; to date paid, out 1 no less a,sum than'£9,480,444 for meat, cheese, and scheelite purchased in Now Zealand or behalf of the Imperial.Government. The meat purchases comprise: .:" 656,317. quarters beef ■■■'•- : ■ 2,904,172 carcasses mutton ' .-. , '■". \,' 4,169,185 carcasses,lamb ..;;.'; tho payments amounting to £8,618,893.. '■'■'•''Ninety-two- steamers, are concerned in the.carnage of this meat* seventy-five having. arrived' at. their < destination's,' twelve are now en route, four'are;; at present loading, and one, tho Ola'u Mac.tavisli, was sunk by the enemy. ■ -.The cheese 'shipments to date total 168,640.. crates,, weighing .11,341 tons, purchased ;a.t.'.a;'cost: of :;£".37,828'rqf-this- ■ quantify; been delivered to the';lmp'erial.-' Government ■■ and 4900 toheSvSre'-eii' : route. .;''., ..'• .','-. ';'-. : ■Scheelitftlsl'woi'th approximately £180 to £2.oo;per' ton/and 140 tons have been secured ■i-liy tho Imp3rial>" Government' ; SupplySDopartment, '88 of which" have' reached their destination. and 52 tons are ,6n'~the water.; The pa3Ttienfs made -by way of advances to producers, total ■£25,'723. Scheelite is purchased on a ,c.i.f.l'.basis, the/final adjustment"'with producers beingiaade on receipt of particulars of the- analysis made,in England;'iwhich form the basis of- settle- ■ ■■'.', -."■. '. I',-: r: -,'

[ o Mjrifying water for ':. ,;•.:; f r i:-^ STOCK; •■;■:'■ ';-, : ';-:/;: f : . - :; A'simpje'method for purifying almost I: any -water/for drinking without .boiling f:'-it'has ibeen.•worked."out by '.Dr.;\.G. G. f■■'. -Naishiitk;. Director:'bf the:: Health La-': f- bofaixJries of Toronto, Canada^ 1 -:, and' p''Dr.vK/"|t'. Graham;f assistant chemist'.,. | 'The'process is"as follows:,"sAdd,-a tea-,! r-: . |i; "of [. 'available'*chlorae : 'to "a cupful of :iwApeiL [7< arid" add) iii '■'- .:' hidre :cupfuls oh water.-; [■;;.;Stir to; stand for.;, a ;few ,• sjec-' i ■ let-VtlieArticles "s'etj ; tie.' -This stock solution, if kept in'a [, : tightly. ..stoppered bottle, may be -used [.for' five days. ■•■•"Add a'-teaspoonful to |..two of water to; be purified; Ef\ stir.(thoroughly in order that the weak ('.'< chlorine solution will come into con- ?,- tactowith all the 'b"a:cterinit'irid,^pllc : P';;it'p; stand for' Thisi , will'--effec-' j; tually destroy all typhoid and colon !'Vbacilli, of other .dysentery : producing • ;r bacilli, in the water. The water will I.'.:'.'do without taste,or .0d0ur,.... and the ;- •; trace" of free chlorine added rapidly disi: .appears. Water containing mud'-in [•suspension is easily clarified by drop;:ping"hot wood .ashes into, it, or by the ('■': application of Ume r dr''alum::'.Thes'e'two H Substances, make;the .wateil'Jiard..-. Ohio-. r<fide:of iron may also be used. : It. is t quite harmless, and a valuable coii- |,;. stitflent for"all''animals:':* / 'Medic'al"nien; fv prescribe iron in one of its' several forms

?~: as a tonic. :-Ono-pound ■■■ of • chloride of jl"; iron. perSlbiyOvill'claf ify.'looo..to |-\ 2500 Rallphs' ; bf*miiddyTv'atef;-and'much' !'= "• reduce"ifie bacterial contents.

i..,..;.: TheVtPrime Minister, the Right-Hon.- [;_ W. F!!Massey, has been incited.tb,':pqr-- "'* form :the" opening ceremony, '.in t-.tiiiu -..'ivitE the-new Westfield'-Freezing I 'Works.'r.; It is anticipated-that tlie -wofkft j.. v.-iU and ready r -to', 'sta'ri' !.. for', killiiig operations aboutithe/,end. of, it. May. machinery has boen'installed;- ! .'arid.'tests carried out, and it is now !;::-itC, firsfe-plass running order. Th'eUate ['.'arrival; of steel work from England has |v kept back tho work in the slaughtering !;; sections, :but no fears are, entertained !■ ■ thati,the::work'' will not be completed fe .by .the" time stated: "Three hundred'men !."-• are engaged on the works at present, f. .and. lhofe would-be, employed if they | .'■/. could Herald." ' '