WEST COAST REFRIGERATING CO.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 26 August 1914, Page 7

WEST COAST REFRIGERATING CO.

ANNUAL I:IISETL\G. Tlio. annual general meeting of the West Coast Jioirigcriiting Co! was hciil at I'atca im Wednesday last. The year's tigures showed an inc-reaic on previous year's figures, notwithstanding the fact Hint during the strike period some 212 tons of cheese; were railed away owing to congestion at. the l J atea works. The annual report stated, inter alia, that -tlie company was arranging for the cool -storage of all cheese going into the works, and the necessary alterations were beihg pushed on as rapidly as possible and should be completed by thb beginning of .September. The, following were the q'.i.i'.'.Lities of produce liandl...: - t'le... shipped to London 1 Xi,D.l2 shipped to West of England, 3(!;tl,io cases; total, 1U3,3G7 cases. Butter shipped to London, 7282 boxes; shipped locally and in store, 343S bores; total, 10,720 boxes. Frozen meat—Sheep, S38o; pieces ct beef, 857; calves, 729; pigs, 12; bacon goods, 2(1 tons. The above represents a gross tonnage handled of—Cheese,' 13,101 tons; butter, 312 tons; meat, 242 tons; total, 13,745 tons. , Comparing season 1M.2.-13 with 101 ■!!-'■ as follows:—Gross tons,' 1014, 13,045: 1013, lS.fiuo.3; increase "in tonnage," 688 7; part of I'atca cheese forwarded to Moturoil during strike period, 212; total incrcase in tonnage, 1014, 000.7 tons.