MEAT EXPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 65, 17 March 1915, Page 8

MEAT EXPORTS.

THE PROVISIOH OF SHIPS. ] -IGHT STEAMERS FOR APRIL. <By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") • WELLINGTON, Tuesday. A review of the recent meat shipments from New Zealand and the future supply of tonnage was given by the Prime Minister to your correspondent this evening. He pointed out that the difficulty was not so much shipping as the fact that the freezing chambers were full or nearly so. "We live upon our exports." be added, "and it is a source of satisfaction to know that although there is this , difficulty, our exports are being sustained at above the average. Five ships nre at present loading meat in the Dominion, and two more, tbe Rotorua and Kumarn. have arrived to-day. Our exports of meat since the new arrangement with the Imperial Government up till last night amounted to the following: Beef 17,2815 quarters, mutton 26,300 carcases, lamb 77.130 carcases. This was taken away by six steamers. Tbe loading arrangements for the month of April are as follows: Steamer capacity in carcases: — lonic 00.000 Arawa 87,000 I'akeha 104.000 Zealandic 104,000 Tuiakina 120,000 Muritai 107,250 Hawkc's Bay 120.200 Star of Scotland 80,000 Total carcases 824,450 The Prime Minister also mentioned that six steamers of an aggregate capacity of 519,000 carcases have already been fixed to load during May.