NEW ZEALAND EXPORTS.
Feilding, April 17. Mr Massey to day opened the Feildiug Freezing Works, which cost over £50,000. The capacity of the works is 1200 sheep and 60 cattfe per day. Mr Massey spoke of the exports for the year to March 31st, 1916, which were as follows ; Meat, £7,423,399 ; butter, £2,949,787 ; cheese, £3,197,800; wool, £ll,769,297. The total value of the exports for the year was £33,781,711—a record which no oountry in the world has equalled in proportion to its population. Since the inception of the Imperial meat scheme, payments for meat totalled £8,448,317. Eighty seven ships had been dispatched. At present there were seven insulated ships on the New Zealand coast, and more were arriving. The total capacity of the steamers now on the coast and to arrive by the end of June, available for the carriage of meat and dairy produce, was 2,290,500 freight carcases.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1540, 18 April 1916, Page 3
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148NEW ZEALAND EXPORTS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1540, 18 April 1916, Page 3
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