OUR PRODUCE EXPORTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1302, 24 September 1914, Page 2

OUR PRODUCE EXPORTS.

THERE WILL BE NO HOLD-UP.

A statement in regard to the ships with refrigerating space available for conveying New Zealand produce to the Old Country was made in the House by the Premier on Tuesday. .Mr Massey said he had arranged with one of the officers of the Government, who was a business man, to look into the whole matter. This officer had been engaged upon his investigations for a week or ten days, and his advice that there were quite a number of ships available for the carriage of our produce until December dl. After that date there was a possibility of some difficulty on account of the delav that had occurred in the despatch of the Expeditionary Force from here. Since then he (Mr Massey) had been in communication with Loudon on the matter, and he had been informed that ships would, be available to carry all of our refrigerated produce Home. He hoped to be able to work with the shipping companies, who had been sending ships to our coasts for years, but if their ships were not available there woxtld be no difficulty, or at any rate no difficulty with which the Government could not deal about getting the ships necessary.