DAIRY PRODUCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 January 1917, Page 2

DAIRY PRODUCE.

FREIGHT SPACE TO l'-E IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE.

Immediate relief is to 1"! given to the daily industry in the maU n r of shipping ?;mce. about- which Mr. Jlassoy has been lately in touch with the Board of Trade in London (says Hi; Wellington Dominion). Then ha? never really been a. shortage of ships loading here The diffi'iil'.y of the butter and eiicese people is tliat hitherto the space ha'; been-almost wholly reserved for meat At the instruction of the Board of Trade meat was given preference, an.', now the preference is to be relaxed, to allow a normal export of butter and cheese durng the next throe months . liy this arrangement about 250,000 boxes nf butter will be tol'in away, and 11 ho pre.-ent congestion of butter will he relieved. The greatest <l.Utility is in ihc storage of cheese, he,-ever. It is understood that the Imperial flovernmcnt are asking now for information as 10 how much Xew Zealand cheese will be readv for shipment by Quinary 15. Some space will be provided for this .•heese, but the amount is not yet stated. It is believed that the Imperial Government will buy the cheese, taking it over on arrival in Engla:ui. An enormous amount of cheese is '.eld in New Z'-aland now—not less than 200.000 crates, of which 58,000 are ct the port of Wellington. A good deal vi the cheese U not well stored and there is risk of deterioration of some u: it.