FROZEN MEAT INDUSTRY.
mem shipping facilities. By Telegraph.—'Press Association. Wellington, Oct. 23. As showing the rapid clearance from freezing stores, it is that after the steamers which arc at present loading have iljecn despatched, the quantity of meat available for shipment by November loth will only equal 205,000 freight carcases. The steamers, Karamea, Ra-ngitira, Kaikoura, and Star of Scotland will he available to load this.
Payments for meat purchased by the imperial Government sinco supplies were requisitioned have totalled £3,500,000, an average of over £700.000 per month. These figures indicate the manner in which the freezing company's of the Dominion have been relieved by the ample shipping facilities that are now available.
No less than eleven new freezing works are either contemplated or in erection, providing 900,000 freight eareases space, and in addition present chamber space will provide lor a further 900,000 carcases. Altogether, in the Dominion, there will soon be storage accommodation for four miUioa fought earoMe^,
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 October 1915, Page 2
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158FROZEN MEAT INDUSTRY. Taranaki Daily News, 25 October 1915, Page 2
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