TALLOW SHIPMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 273, 7 August 1918, Page 8

TALLOW SHIPMENTS

APPEAL FOB MORE SPACE. '< A' statement about the shipment «t tallow from Ifew Zealand was made by the Minister in Charge nf Imperial Supplies (the Hon. D. H, Guthrie) to r reporter yesterday. "There aie at present upwards of 30,00(1 tons of tallow in store in New Zenland " said Mr. Guthrie. "Tho value of this product is something like a million and a quarter sterling. For some tivno past there has Ibeen very little opportunity of getting any considerable amount of shipmuff space for this commodity, and the heavy accumulation in the stores, has Income embarrassing. /Recently verv strong representations have been made" to the Prime Minister (Mr. Massev) on this matter, and we have ha assurance that lie ia using his best, endeavours to have the existing congestion relieved. It has been hinted m the past that Now Zeaand hae not been getting its fair proporiSJ a « aTal^ 19 S P'™ for this com. moditr. The whole matter <g enga»ine the attention of Mr. Masgey anf (% Joseph Ward in England, ft present."

SOUTHERN MARKETS ■ ;■ By Telegraph-Press Association. „, . Christchurch, Au«ust (i supply the requirements of stock owners m the eiw-aifected districts will Cstm further reduced by tho Quantity that will be ehiDDed by special steamer td Auckland this week. The vessel is loading chafl only on behalf of four Auckland firms. Potatoes are. firm, there being improved inquiry from Wellington. Want of shipping is preventing supplies being sent to Auckland, wherei they are required. For white varieties £7 per ton at cenmtry stations is bein K offered and for-Dakota Beds ss. more would bo