MEAT FOR TROOPS.
N£W ZEALAND GOVERNMENT PURCHASES.
(Per Press Association).
WELLINGTON, April 25. Up till yesterday the Government had expended on behalf of the Imperial . Government in the purchase of frozen meat, for export, the sum of £1.001,619. .'",■"■■■■.
As the Government toolc over the export business only on March 3 last, this sum lias been spent in a period of between seven and eight weeks. "And fit goes .without ' saying," said the (Prime . Minister, in commenting, on | these figures, " that we could have i exported a great deal more meat if it had been possible to get the ships to carry it. "I have been endeavouring, but .; unsuccessfully, to arrange for more • space for Canterbury meat, on account iof the drought in that district," Mr ! Massey went on to say, "but the difficulty is that all over New Zealand the works, are only running _ interrniti tentlyv and I am afraid th&t,condition ! of things wiil obtain for some weeks to come.".
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 9124, 26 April 1915, Page 2
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