CONGESTION IN MEAT STORAGE SPACE

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 156, 28 March 1939, Page 10

CONGESTION IN MEAT STORAGE SPACE

Hopes Of Relief In Auckland By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, March 27. Hopes of relief in the congestion in the meat storage space at the provincial freezing works are held by the scheduled arrival of 14 overseas ships to load produce at Auckland for Britain in tlie first three weeks of next mouth. The shipping loading allotments for April and May announced at the weekend will result in 1.1 ships visiting Auckland during the period, the balance arriving before April 20 being in the March-April allotments. Willi the departure last night of tlie Opawa, no loading ships are at present in port, the next being the liner Rangitaia, due from Napier on Wednesday. "Though the freezing works will benefit from this Hearn nee," commented a shipping representative, "it is still possible that tlie rate of killings wilt fully tax the space.” The Auckland shipping companies consider that tlie shortage of space to carry tlie very heavy quantity of refrigerated cargoes was tlie result of unforeseen causes, neither tin- New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board nor the companies being at fault. It was explained Hint under the contract between the producers’ board and the shipping conference lines estimated produce figures were given about two mouth.in advance to tlie companies, which could then arrange for the neecssary shipping tonnage.