SHIPPING FOR MEAT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3524, 10 July 1920, Page 4

SHIPPING FOR MEAT.

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Private zldviee has been received in Wellington that 20 per cent, of the avail:1l)le Sllipping‘ space will probably be provided by the Ministry of Food for the shipment of the new season’s meat, four—fiftl:.< of the space being reserved for requisition stocks, ‘The qu:ln('ity of meat in store in New Zealaml for which no space has been allotted in o4versea.< .<‘reanlel'S_. as on June 30. is equivalent to 6,379,764 careases of 6011.». The quantjty shipped th_roug’h the Imperial Supplies Department is alremly 2,992,365 quarters of beef, ]3,060.249 c.:lre.asCs nmtton, and 14_7 12.487 carcases lamb. For the Whole purcllase of meat from March 3, 1915, to June 30, 1920. the Imperial Supplies Depzn-hnent has paid out £49,719,056.