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The Daily News. TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1917. SHIPPING OUR PRODUCE.

The news we published yesterday regard-' ing. the shipping service and the success of the submarine measures was very good news indeed. It shows that there is every possibility of New Zealand being able to ship her produce as usual, and that so far as the submarine danger is concerned we are past the worst. From July onward, Mr. Ma'ssey Btates, we can expect the shipping position to improve, unless the submarine difficulty increases. Further, he says it is practically certain that wool, sheepskins, and hides will be requisitioned by iho Imperial Government, the same as last season, and probably at the same prices. Mr. Massey thinks it unlikely-that the Imperial Government will purchase butter, but possibly an additional quantity of cheese, whilst in regard to, tallow and general targo the outlook is the same as prevailed this season. This means that the pale, at good prices, of the whole of our produce for the ensuing year is practically assured, the responsibility for its carriage to England again resting with the Home Government. This news will jpme as a relief to many of our leaders, who, because of the decided curtailment flf the shipping service; were growing apprehensive for the immediate future. A iiessation, or even curtailment, of shipping would provo a serious loss to the Dominion, but the fact that the Home authorities are 'buying the » produce fchows they want our produce and will provide the necessary shipping. For it time the Huns' submarine campaign bore :in ugly appearance. Our shipping losses fontinued to increase, and it required no Inside information to realise that if the Increase was maintained it was only a piatter of time when the Old Country would be compelled to call in all, the , shipping possible with a view to concentrating upon the carriage of essential foodstuffs from near-by countries. Canada has the wheat and the Argentine the (neat, and, at a pinch, England could »übsist ( on these articles, together .with (vhat she has on hand, and produces her*«u, until hMveat time anitad, ffiio f«ct'

that she is buying our produce again proves that she will not be forced, into taking these drastic measures by reason of the acutcucss of t!io submarine campaign, which, we aro told by the British Prime Minister, is no\V well in hand, and that "the German hope of triumph in the war based upon submarines will prove the greatest miscalculation in the whole series of miscalculations that fated Empire has made," We cannot expect the same numbei of ships to come to New Zealand as during th» past two years, until, at any rate, the shipbuilding yards of Britain and America overtake the losses, but as it is likely the authorities will pay for the produce whether shipped immediately or not, the reduced shipping service will not seriously affect the producers at this end. It is pretty deai; that those dairy factories making butter will be obliged, to go into cheese, as the latter, which is required for the armies, will take precedence of tl)e other; indeed butter may be excluded altogether. Taranaki butter factories that have not a local market should therefore lose no time in installing cheese plants, winch, happily, are available in the country, and do not involve a very heavy expenditure. The present position shows how dependent New Zealand is for its prosperity, indeed for its very existence, upon the markets of England. Interfere with the shipping, and we are practically "done for." But for the British Navy, where would we be ? New Zealand, as much as any part of the Empire, 'has good reason to thank God we have an invincible navy, a navy that is able to checkmate and defeat a resourceful, ruthless and reckless enemy, both on and under the waves.

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Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1917, Page 4

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The Daily News. TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1917. SHIPPING OUR PRODUCE. Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1917, Page 4

The Daily News. TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1917. SHIPPING OUR PRODUCE. Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1917, Page 4

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