IMPERIAL MEAT.
o NO CARRYING-OVER. STORES CLEAR TN JANUARY. The fact that there will be loading in New Zealand ports during the coming month fourteen big steamers with an aggregate carrying capacity of 1,526,000 o'o-pound carcases, ha* d__pated the dread that great stocks of Imperia] fiovernment meat might haws been carr'ed over into next season in the freezing chambers of the Dominion. As a matter of fact the insulated apace available in January will not only he sufficient for the Imperial Government meat, but will also allow for the shipment of "free meat"—killed this season —and dairy produce. There wi_ be four steamers loading beef for the Continent on behalf of Vestey Brothers. T_« Argyllshire will load for the United Kingdom. and will arrive here to load with 55.500 carcases of Queensland meat. The steamers to load, with their freigbtcaroase capacities, are:—Arawa, 87,000$ Port Nicholson. 11.3,000; Parang*, 106.000; Ze__ndV, 102.000: Durhawt, 100,000; Argyllshire. 147.000; Kumar*, 73.000; Somerset. 95,000: Port Lyttelton, 86,000: Hororata, 112.000; Brodw-le, 130,000; Viking Ptar, 130.000; Norman Star, 125.000; Stuart Star, 120,000.
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 309, 28 December 1920, Page 4
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