DOMINION'S PART.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1916, Page 5

DOMINION'S PART.

IMPERIAL SUPPLIES DEPARTMENT. OPERATIONS TO DATE. Wellington, Last Night. The Imperial Supplies Department, on behalf of the Imperial Government, has paid out to Now. Zealand producers to date •ei2.f1:)3.74!). Since the Department started purchasing meat in March, Hl].-., Urn quantity So purchased to date is !I7."»,!I1S quarters of beef. 3 04(1,930 carcases of rauttcn, and 5,070,7f!2 carcases of lamb. Already one hundred steamers have delivered cargoes of meat under the purchase scheme, and 18 steamers ire now en route from the Dominion to the United Kingdom with meat, cargoes, ami two loading in the Dominion. Of the meat fleet running --ince the K'licme started one has been lost, the Clan Mactavisli. Purchases, in addition to meat, consist of £(117.205 for 13,810 tons of cheese, and ;C42,G03 (advanced) for 235 tons ol' scheelite. The Department has also purchased and delivered for the New Zealand Government butter to the value of £14,814. This is for transports and camps, MORE DEATHS IN CAMP. Wellington. T.ast Night. The Defence Office reports Unit Private .James 11. Watson died in the Mas. terton civil hospital on Monday evening, from cerebrospinal meningitis. His next-of-kin is Private A. Watson, a brother member of the 21st Reinforcements Another death from cerebrospinal meningitis occurred at the FcalhersUm Military Hospital this morning, the patient being Private. Harry l'ercival Coad. 20th Mounted Rifles. Next-of-kin (mother) Mrs. M. Z. Coad, Te Roti, Ilawcra. CALLING UP SHIRKERS. Auckland, 'Sept. 5. As the result of a conference between the Minister of Defence and the local oflieials and the Mayc.- of Auckland, the Mayor announces that the provisions of the Act for pressing into service members of shirking families will be brought into operation for filling the first shortage of the reinforcements drafts after the 10th inst.