ACCUMULATED MEAT.

Taihape Daily Times, 23 July 1919, Page 2

ACCU MULATED MEAT.

| ““°>'-“-3 R THE POSITION 17tE\’IE\‘»'EDL [ NEED FOR SHIPPING. i VESSELS TO LOAD. I WELLINGTON, July 13. It is within the knowledge of every iman who has anything to do with tne meat OXDOrt business t}:'ia‘f’¥?le shipping 00171918 to New Zealand at present is not suflicient for the needs of the !fl'ooZillg industry_ In January and February promises were made through‘ the Government of quite a generous supply of ships, but the promises have not Inaterialised'. No blame is :Ittaell- - to anyone. There have been good reasons why it has not been pos‘sible to send all the ships. 1 The Minister in Charge of Imp@l‘i:ll }SUDpli€s (the Hon, D. H. Guthrie), recently dospatched a telegram to ‘the lliigh Commissioner on the subject 01.’ Shipping Space as follows:—“Therc “are now in freezing stores throughmlt .the Dominion approxiixiagfi.-“Ly 8,000,000 freight carcases of meat, and the greatest congestion exists. Some stock still remains available for killing, and, if additional relief is not forthcoming, this must be reduced ,to store condtion. The tonnage made available up till the present ti'l‘ne for tho Dominion’s requiremelits is 110 t .adeqaute. I should be glad if you will }make represent'ations to the Shipping Controller and point out the urgent necessity of reducing the amount of meat in store lfe‘fore next season"s killings commence, otherwise the posiltion must be disastrous to New Zeal land ’s interests”

TWO‘ MONTHS’ PROPECTS.

The High Commissioner replied on ‘July 14, as follows:——“Have made relpresentations to the Minister of Ship,ing and the Board of Trade, urging a lsubstantial increase of tonnage for ’New Zealand and. will continue to ‘press matters. I am infornied that ]New Zealand is receiving evel“s*’€oll--sideration but that it has been found impossible to allocate more than 117,000 tons -of 1-efi-igenated space dur-_ ‘ing August. Not less than 30,000 ptons will be available in 'Septembe.l-, but no estimate can be given yet for llater months. The above estimates |may have to be modified if ships are delayed.” I These figures mean that the space iDI‘OIIIiSCd for August Will take 629,000 [freight cai-cases, but as space will lhave to be found for cheese equival--out in stowage to 126,000 freight car: cases the amount of meat 'th‘:i‘E can be pu7t' into the ships, will be 503,000 freight carcases. The space for September will take 1,110,000 carcases but this is again subject to reduction for dairy produce by 103,000 freight carcases so that the total amount of meat to be shipped will be 1,007,000 careasos, making a total of 1,510,000

1“;-;-igizi c::lz*czl::c-.~';, of mc::-it for the znontns cw? .:\ii::_:';usi' and Sep’rombe:'. ()UTL()Oi{ I-‘OR 'l‘H_’l<3 SE:‘iSON_ Jiulging by p2‘-.::t experience it will not no safe to expect that the SepiC~lnl.‘:L‘l' :stea::u-rs will all be here before O(‘tOb;‘l‘ and this ‘;o::1i2;g..~ namorl. 1:121:lmvo to suflicwr for tho next tliroc: months:. ’i‘his :;io:'.n:: in round figures ‘tiiat the meat Sliil)n‘.l‘nt;: from Now Z;-21‘;-:.n-:2 £C.-:- :";1v :::::.::tlis oi‘ .~\ngns’; S~eptei)l‘.'>m' and ()(-fi’.o‘y'wi' }§lF._\'llnL 0;,-. ceml liaif a t;:i‘e.i:on L-El}-(j;ls;_x_q ,-. month. Tlll.-"~ will not be uciazqiiaie for recguirmnontg but it niaj.-' ,u:or\'n if 4:114,rate is coniiiiized fintil T3l:-COl‘-‘.‘!)Gi' \‘\'llL"l3 tho new Sr-ason will 0302:. if =._..- pstijyu. :1';r»:l that by that titnc thorn will be in tho stores: about four mill‘;-" :1 "F:--r-I-;li‘ Carcasos. ‘.-K sva:<oll’s killing for tho hwhole COnlltl'}‘ :miouni:< to F‘sl'7ii‘ (i. 000,000 (?<’l‘-'(’:1£?:‘-:1. amouiit to be pi-i‘.'i-.lu«l 'f":;:- (l=_1:'77:7;;: €l2“ :.:.~:-i.<o11 will be 10 MN‘-.0i??l (‘.-'-‘.v?:‘sS:‘S. The nomi.nal capo.cii"«' o‘ t‘m:- Co‘i.‘. S1ij()I"?H in the Com’l’-':{\' is '7,4'.—05.00 (0-ur-ca..~:es, but in -.>-.<:tz=.;;‘v. tact the Stol'€:-' l‘c-id more? than :*l).oy am‘ supposed to i‘EU<(*. It will be quite sofa‘ to os‘.'iln« ate the capacity oi" the stol'E.‘s at 8.000.000 carcases. This store capa-(-,i'r._v is calcvilatod in nniznt c.~:ll'c:lsc>z, anei as an the carcases will be cut. ‘rho stores should hold 10,000,000 carcases. This means tl?ai; the Dominion will be 2lbl(‘ to get tin-ongh nozzi season with a squeeze. perhaps. but it should get through it_ Shipping will. of course, continue while the season is in progress. MINISTER OPTIMISTIC. Referring to these "Figures, Ml‘. Guthrie said that if ziytliing like the number of ships tliat had been promised came to load here, New Zealand would fare well enough. but it was necessary that tlir: Government should confinuo as in the past to keep the ‘lmperial authoi-itios informed of the position here and of the necessity for more tonnage. If this were done he hoped the position in New Zoaland would improve. The dol€\)"s up till *;l~.c nrosoiii in shipping had hen caused by :=.i‘l‘ik(‘.S in Bi-i’rain. the shortage, of coal, and ”Influenza_ if the-so troubles should not occur in the futui'o he had hope that New Zoalaml would get more shipping and that the position ill_tllenloat inrlustry might be eased.