TRANSPORT OF PRODUCE

Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1916, Page 5

TRANSPORT OF PRODUCE

TONNAGE AND SHIPS THE POSITION REVIEWED By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Nigh*. v The Prime Minister has received 4 memorandum from th«r Imperial Meat* supply Committee, (Which shows thafc during the past week two steamers were dispatched, carrying between thenr ■>.5,<MS carcases of mutton .wethers, 32,714 carcases of mutton ewes, 09,513 carcases or lamb, and 10,800 quarters of beef. The total f.o.b._ value of the same, exeluding storage, was £1155,061. There are six steamers at present loading meat in the Dominion. A cablegram has been received from! 'the High Commissioner, dated 4th inst., on the subject of tonnage, stating that the London Tonnage Committee have nvianged for the Leitrim to foad meat in the Dominion during this month'. The vessel is due about the 21st inst. This brings the number of steamers available for September loading to eight, i.e., Leitrim, Devon. Tongariro, Arawa, Pakeha, Zealandic, Delphic, and Port Napier. The quantity of meat to be lifted by these vessels will amount to approximately 750,000 001b carcases. Meat held in store on account of the Imperial Government in various works, on July ,62 consisted of (101b carcases, 477,943; mutton ewes, 401,233; lamb, -562,01 a; ueef, 578,027; mutton pieces, 10.404. Thic makes a total-of 2,030,285 (lOlb carcass, as against 2,228,585 in store on latlf inst. Estimates obtained from the freezing companies of the meat remaining in store, on the lath inst., for which no allocations had been made total 1,421,■BBO (iOlb carcases. If the estimated killings to September SO be added .to this quantity, namely, 77,000, and deduction made of shipments estimated to take place during September, the result will show that approximately three-quarters of.a million (iOlb carcases will remain in store on September 30 for which shipping facilities will be required. Tha quantity in store at the same date last year amounted to 065,992 601b carcases. ' During the period under review th<! payments made amounted to £132,294 3s 2d, bringing the total to date to £ll,397,001) ss. This amount shipments from the undermentioned districts of the Dominion:-—Auckland, £»ltl.27in7s 4d; Poverty Bay, £1,184,8IM) 14s 3d; Hawke's Bay, £1,097,834 Is 2d; Taranald, £403,212 18s 2d; Wels lington, £3,024,223 17s Od—North Island! total, £6,086,447 Ss Bd. Marlborough, £Si),2«5 2s Id;' Nelson, £51,228 0s 7dj| Canterbury, £2,707,828 4s Id; Otago, £891,740 Osfkl; Southland, £971,130 8a -South Island total, £4,711,221 lfls 4d,