IMPERIAL SUPPLIES
PURCHASES TO DATE. TOTAL EXCEEDS 133 MILLIONS. Following are details of the payments to date made on behalf of the Depart raent of Imperial Government Suppmoa. It will bo seen that the total payments exceed 139 millions:— £ 'Frozen meat '. 47,392,891 ! Cheese. 1915-16 season 918,101 'Cheese, 1916-17 season 3,271,933 Cheese, 1917-18 season 5,013.295 Cheese. 1918-19 season 5,660,453 Cheese, 1918-19 season 5,576.723 (Jlmhxw, JUISM92O season 5,576,725 Butter, 1917-18 season 2.829,032 Butter, 1919-20 season .2,751,437 Butter equalisation funds 822,851 Scheelito 175,972 Wool _. 50,179,234 Freezing companies elipo wool 6,618,515 Sheepskins 2,724.77f> Hides 735,66!) Other business 1,735,838 Grand total 139,333,400 The meat purchases were as follotr, showing (1) quarters of beef, (2) Carcases of mutton, and (3) carcases lamb:—l9ls
season. 337.735, 1,936,981, 2,&59,5C8; 1916 season, 769,680, 2,421,690, 3,148.714; 1917 season, 517.703, 1,575,600, 1,315508; 1918 season, 612,947, 1,871,197, 1,871,414; 1919 season, 533,413, 3.182.885, • 9.273,200; 1920 I season. 179.369, 1,741,238, 1,759.772. Totals, beef, 2,951,112; mutton, 12,779,632; lamb, 14.258.144. Tho cheese purchased totalled 2,760,995 crates, of a total value of .£20,410.559. The butter shipments, etc., were as uvder: —Boxes shipped mnd'-lost in transit, 49,847; arrived at destination, 1.759,583; en route to destination. Cfi€39; oV board .strainers loading, ,10,090; tot.il, 1,886,068.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10608, 5 June 1920, Page 10
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194IMPERIAL SUPPLIES New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10608, 5 June 1920, Page 10
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