PORT PIRIE'S CARGO.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1920, Page 4

PORT PIRIE'S CARGO.

(DETAILS OP RECORD SHIPMENT. WORTH ABOUT *220,000.

When the C. and D. liner Port Pirlo leaves this week, she will take *w*y a cargo of frozen meat and cheese, which, at a conservative estimate, may be valued at £220,000, and represents the v largest direct export made from Taranaki in one steamer,

This large shipment of product comes from the meat companies and dairy factories of Taranaki, and is a striking 11lustration of the productivity- of the province. The cargo is made up of approximaijpjy 00,130 freight carcases of meat and 12,300 crates of cheese, ' Of I lie meat consignment the Taranaki Vtxmers' Meat Company contributed from tiieir Smart Roai works 63,130. freight carcases, and 35,000 ware brought to Moturoa by barge from Messrs Bortliwick and Company'B works at Wailara. The Patea Company ako sent 2000 freight carcases'ty sea tft be loaded on the Port Pirie. From.'the Taranaki Producers' stores at Mqtqroa the cheese consignment of crates will be lifted. This alone is a valuable part of the ship's cargo, and jfc It the iiret lot to be shipped direct overseas from New Plymouth, The loading of the Port Pirie concluded yesterday bo far as the Taranaki 'Farmers' Meat Company Was concerned, and the whole quantity comprising this shipment was taken or board in splendid condition, entirely the satisfaction of the ship's officers. .. fact, on no occasion has any meat from the Smart Road works been rejected by the various ships loaded since the company commenced operations. ,

The tho meat will probably bo finished to-day, and then the cheese will be shipped. After this the Port Pirie has to discharge a quantity of coal, and she is not expected to sail tfll Saturday or Sunday. She wiH proeeed , to England via Australia. *