EXAGGERATED REPORTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2973, 10 January 1917, Page 8

EXAGGERATED REPORTS

Inquiries made by a Dominion reporter yesterday showed that exaggerated statements had been made regarding the depredation of cheese in store in- Wellington. It is true that the Harbour Board's cheese store is filled to the limit of its capacity, and that many thousands of crates of cheese have been .accommodated in the Pipitea Wharf shed and one of the sheds on the Glas- .. gow Wharf. But the Harbour Board ■ has made special arrangements for the ventilation, of these sheds, and in spite •or the very •warm weather experienced lately the cheese that is awaiting shipment does not appear to have suffered to any material extent. The position will be easier for all concerned now that the weather has broken and the temperature is lower. The conditions are quite abnormal. Never previously has there been so large an accumulation of cheese awaiting shipment as is reported from the various ports at,the present time. But the special precautions that have been taken in Wellington and elfcewhero appear to have been effective. The cheese that has been placed in cool store is -safe, and the consignments that have -been accommodated in non-insulated "stores will reach the market in reasonably good order if shipment is not too long delayed. There is an element of uncertainty on that point.