IMPERIAL PRODUCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 May 1921, Page 5

IMPERIAL PRODUCE.

QUANTITIES REMAINING IN STORE.

MUTTON AND LAMB NEARLY ALL SHIPPED.

The mutton, lamb, and boneless beef remaining in the New Zealand stores at the end of April for shipment on account of the Imperial Government amounted to only 28,661 freight carcases. Shipping space had been allotted for 76'38 freight carcasses, leaving 21,03-3 freight carcases, all held at Wairoa, for which space had not been allotted. Twenty-three of the freezing works had been cleared altogether of Imperial meat at the end of April, but other stores held beef to the amount of, roughly, 272,000 freight carcases. The total payments by the Imperial Supplies Department on meat up to that time had been £53,056,334.

The quantity of Imperial butter in the stores at the end of April was 132,734 boxes. During the month of April 203,674 boxes of butter were shipped. The wool held in the stores on account of the Imperial Government at the end of April amounted to 314,890 bales, comprising 194,657 hales of brokers’ wool, 21,059°bales of Government slipe wool, 49,9'7'2 bales of Government scoured wool and 49,202 bales of freezing companies’ slipe wool. The total payments made by the Imperial Supplies Department on account of produce bought on behalf of the Imperial Government up to April 30, were as follow:

Frozen meat . Cheese, 1915-16 Cheese, 1916-17 Cheese, 1917-18 Cheese, 1918-19 Cheese, 1919-20 Butter, 1917-18 Butter, 1918-19 53,056,33a season ...... 918,104 season 3,271,982 season ..... 5,013,295 season ...<••••*-• 5,670,560 season 6,286,943 season 2,829,032 season 2,928,685 eniionn 2.420.297 Butter, 1920-21 season 7,986,883 Wool (including profits distribution) 52,901,283 Freezing companies' slipe wool .. 7,497,817 741,208 968,952 Other business (non-Imperial) .. 1,570,158 Grand total 158,602,725