NEW COOL STORE.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 November 1915, Page 3

NEW COOL STORE.

OPENED AT BLUFF. STATEMENT BY SIR JOSEPH WARD. By Telegraph.—Press Assoclatwn, luvercargill, Last Night. At Bluff to-day, Sir Joseph Ward opened a new cool dairy store, the most up-to-date in the Dominion, which has a capacity of 25,000 crates or 50,000 cheeses. There was a very representative gathering of members of the South Island Dairy Association and directors of Southland dairy factories. Six thousand crates of cheese were iif the store at the time. Mr. A. P. Hawke, chairman of the Bluff Harbor Board, called upon Sir Joseph Ward to open the store formally.

Sir Joseph dealt with the rapid development of the dairying industry, and said that the time was close at hand when dairy produce would be the second in importance in point of value of exports. Commenting on the action of the Imperial Government, through the Mew Zealand Government, in requisitioning meat exports, and a third of the cheese exports, he said that since March 3 to November 22 there had been shipped in round numbers, 354,000 quarters beef, 2,008,000 carcases of mutton, and 2,ft»9,000 carcases of lamb. Of this, 221,000 quarters of beef, 1,471,000 carcases of mutton, and 2,174,000 carcases of lamb had already arrived at its destination, of the value of nearly £0,000,000. The fact that so much of the Dominion's produce was requisitioned and was exported with extraordinary little friction, showed how was brought about by co-operation between producers and the Government. He believed that this spirit of co-operation among all classes throughout the Empire would enable the Imperial Government to bring victory to the British arms.

Luncheon followed the formal opening and the gathering was very successful.