COLLECTING THE STORES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13876, 29 October 1910, Page 10

COLLECTING THE STORES.

THE N.Z. CONTRIBUTIONS. Mr J. J. Kinsey, representative for the expedition in New Zealand, gave to a "Press" representative yesterday - a list of the contributions which had beon received for the expedition in New Zealand. Five hundred tons of coal Avere required, and the Union Steam Ship Company has given 100 tons, and the Blackball Coal Company. WestportStockton Coal Company, Tyser Lino, Westport Coal Company, Shaw Savill and Albion Company, Federal Houltk*. Company, New Zealand Shipping Com-' pany, and Huddart Parker Company, fifty tons each. The Christchurch Meat Company, Canterbury Frozen Meat Company, and Simms, Cooper and Company havo each contributed twenty carcases of mutton. Mr Richard Evans has given ten carcases, and Mr Duncan Rutherford w ill contribute the frozen beef required. Colonel R. Heaton Rhodes and Messrs Joseph _. Studholme, John Studholme, J. 0. Grigg, A. Macfarlane and T. Teschmaker, .will either contribute frozen meat or the equivalent in cash. Mrs - Townend has given £20 in lieu of frozen mutton.

Regarding the. preserved meat the • Christchurch Meat Company and the' Canterbury Frozen Meat Company haA-o each given 10001b of boiled mutton and 5001b of sheep tongues. The former will giv. any bovril that may be required, an. the latter will supply the ice for " ing tho meat until it reaches th. South. Borthwick and Soils will give nineteen cases of boiled beef and ex tongues, and Nelson Bros, twelve cam of ox tongues and sheep's tongues. The Gear Company, Wellington, Avill supply twenty cases of preserved meats and fancy goods, and the Wellington Export Company twenty-one cases of boiled, beef and sir cases of tripe and, onions.

Tho Tai Tap_ Co-operati - © Dairy Company have given two boxes ol butter of 561b, the Sefton Dairy pany one box of 281b, the Canterbury \ Central Dairy Company two boxes of, . 281b. Hawke's Bay has given sixty 501b boxes, and offered to supply any further butter required, besides mak- '. ing a cash donation to the expedition. ;> In connection with tho Hawke's Bay '■!- gift, Captain Todd, who has charge of < the donations made in HaAvk_'_ Bay i. towards the expedition, wanted .to- 'r : supply all the butter for the expedition, but Mr Kinsey was too n-Metit/ to take advantage of this most gonerous offer, and replied that he w-ukl' '. be glad if he could make up 30001b. and this Captain. Todd did, and s. at along tho cash balance he had iv hand.

Green and Co. have mado a present of a case of hams and a case of bacon,, tvhile Wood Bros, have offered to

supply any bran or oatsbeaf chaff ih_t i -1 may bo required for the ponies. -It is' j principally due to their generosity that tho pouies on Quail Island ha.o been thriving so well of late. Several browories have offered ,to supply any beer or ale if Captain Scott : desires it. Aulsebrook and Co. ha. c

given 500 tinned puddings, a quantity of fancy biscuits, and a quantity cr chocolate. Mason, Struthers -nd,.00,, will supply any quantity of Spratt's dog biscuits that tho expedition iaa.:require. The Geraldine district is forwnrdißß,' cheese and other produce through Dr. ■ Mill, who has taken tho matter ia hand. Mr Kinsey will havo farther * details about Geraldine later. •, Mr R. A. Anderson, who is interesting himself in Invercargill on behalf - of the expedition, has not quite com-- - pleted his returns, but among the donations will be tw- Jvo cases of Highland brand preserved milk, a quantity of oats, a nnmber of hams, and a qua»_i*y. of preserved meats. Tho Lyttelton Harbour Board *r_f not chargo Avharfage, storage, pilotage, tug, or dock fees. The Board lift- -_>" generously given the Expedition the free use of a shed for discharging their goods from tho Terra Nova and ro-

organising tho storage. Tho Government has given the members of the Expedition free railway passes between Lyttelton and Christchurch, and a'- ' lotved the use of Quarantine Is!sod for the dogs and ponies free of ordinary charges. , '