MEAT SHIPMENTS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15452, 3 December 1915, Page 7

MEAT SHIPMENTS.

SHIP UNABLE TO GET FULL CARGOES. STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER. (press association telegram.) WELLINGTON, December 2. matter of very great importance ■to the farmers of New Zealand was ®eiitioned bv the Prime Minister. Recently some refrigerating steahavo left the Dominion with their space only partly filled with meat. Several factors have been j™«eng farmers to hold buck their . from factories, but their action that refrigerating space is fSS? auc * t^lc l >r '»o Minister that if the meat comes forward m a nis h l at cr there may be a re-Jjj-Hjnce of last season's troubles, when •wrtage of space was reported. tif C v mentioned that the Star would leave to-morrow 3500 rcases short of hVr full consignment-. Jiur F wait ' n P ten days in order to fill \*«L s P ! j cc - „ The Karamca had left on • ffrembor 2Sth with a shortage of 1500 dnJ? 505 ' • 0 Kaikoura had sailed ten mi u I'er lower insulat*li« r! general cargo, and po!L rari was now loading general t-° insulated space. Butter was ««"ng lonvard very well, but it did and ?C C " r, - v . n . ui( 'h spa-.e on steamers, iitiT r I'osition deserved attention of i»lr.«+- l f rn i ICIS ' ' ' 1(> "''normal season and Plenhful grass, with Ki-h prices for contl'} am '- ' atl> sj "' ar '«g> had all U -' to lnt '""c farmers to delay 'in lat sloc '' i to l ''c "freezer." but dl . OWn they should do with!? 551 r keep the freezing works „ get produce away as soon to avoi 1 congestion later, J! "h neither the "freezers" nor We shippui-, would be able to cope.