DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 91, 12 September 1914, Page 4

DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORT.

fiPEdAL CHARTERED STEAMERStPROPOSEU. By Telegraph.—4 Per Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Representatives of 11 of the principal dairy companies carrying on business in the South Auckland district met in Auckland to-day, and passed a series of resolutions, urging that adequate provision should be made Vy chartering steam.-, era to deliver the season's dairy produce' to the United Kingdom. The first resolution declared that, as a result of the rofrigeiatcd steamers which are ordinarily used for the carriage of produce having been commandeered for transport of troops, a serious shortage of transport facilities would probably result at the Hush of the present dairying season; as a means of averting the calamity, the meeting proposed that suitable steamers should be chartered and brought to New Zealand before the middle of December, in order to help to relieve the congestion, which will by then be acute,,and it was decided to ask the New Zealand Shipping Company and the Shaw, Savilb and Albion Company to arrange such charters as a .means of carrying out their - contract with the dairy companies. "A further resolution was carried, urging that if additional, troopships are needed non-re-frigerated steamers should bo used, and that enquiry should be made through the High Commissioner as to , whether suitable steamers for the carriage of dairy produce can be chartered in (jreat Britain.