ESSENTIAL CARGO

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 255, 16 July 1918, Page 6

ESSENTIAL CARGO

n "WHISKY ENOUGH IN NEW ZEA- ° LAND FOB TEN YEAES." 0 At last month's meeting of the Cound cil of the Wellington Central Chamber of Commerce a memorandum was for- " warded to tho National Efficiency Board ? on the subject of the nature, of cargoes e coming into tho country at tht expense 't of more essential goods. The board re- ° plied by asking firms to forward een- ■ creto instances where their cargo tad e been ehut out in preference to ether ;C cargo received at the docks after theirs. V Mr. H. Hart said that what the board l " asked was impossible to reply to. They f might bo able to tell what cargo of '■ theirs had boon sent down to the docks, l > but could not say whether it arrived ' before or after other cargo. .All they 0 knew was that their cargo had been *, shut out, but could give no reasons for r it. He said that people could -cmilo F about this whisky question, but he <!'<:w F attention to the fact that by the , r which arrived here in June, G227 cases D and 250.casks of spirits came to hand. * His firm had had 30 tons of cargo waitj; ing on the wharves in New! York si nee ' February. It might, not be essential 1 cargo, but .cargo lees essential had been '■ shipped before it. 0 Mr. W. Cotton said that (5!),000 gallons ? of whisky had been imported from Aus- ;! tralia at the expense of wheat and flour, ; both of which (especially good flour) were badly needed in this country. Spaco ' could bo lound for whisky, taut not for produce. He maintained Hint >jc duly '. on wheat should be lifted. When it was :. considered that the public was paying SM. for a loaf of bread, that would be plain to all. They might be all whisky- ' drinkers—he admitted being one—but he j could inform them that there was at tho G present time enough whisky in New Zeae land to last until the war was over— r even if it lasted another ten yeaTs. He e said that it was his intention to deliver .[ an address on the subject of wheat and (. flour in Canterbury.