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STORAGE OF CHEESE.

WELLINGTON HARBOUR BOARD'S FACILITIES. ' • (fuess association tei.egr.vji.) WELLINGTON, June 27. Tho Harbour Board at its meeting to-night considered a report from its Onginocrs regarding the building of an extra cool storage for cheese. The engineers estimated that a temporary store could bo erected for £6500. and a building of a • partially permanent naturo for £11,000, The chairman moved .that- with ro* gard to the Agricultural "Department's suggestion that tho Board should immediately construct a temporary additional cool store for tho storage of' cheese unable to be shipped owing to the abnormal shortage of vessels, tho Board, whi'st recognising, with the Department, that the . project was to a large extent speculative, it was yot- prepared to proceed at once -with the work on condition that the Board received a cash subsidy oqua] to one-half of-the estimated cost of £0-300: further, that the chairman and engineer of the Board be pmnowereu io confer with .tho Agricultural Department on theso linrs. After a disc-ussion as to whether tho store would pay. tho motion was carried.

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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15939, 28 June 1917, Page 7

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STORAGE OF CHEESE. Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15939, 28 June 1917, Page 7

STORAGE OF CHEESE. Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15939, 28 June 1917, Page 7