OUR WAR TIME PRODUCTS.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16700, 8 December 1919, Page 12

OUR WAR TIME PRODUCTS.

WHAT THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT HAS PAID OUT. Ore rf tho mo.n interesting of official documents, as showing at a. bianco Uio wealth derivable from our primary products, is the monthly statement of the I>o))nrlm.'-r,t of Imperial Government Supplier, t!*o hrewd of which is Mr R. Tripga. Tho latewt jitalcmont issued, which brings up the ii:rar«M to Xovomljer 30th, shows that tlio I)i'i..T.rtmont ha* paid o"t to the producers of Se* Zealand the. sum of t'l 13, 122,iV4j within ;i period 01" four and a h;ui Twrs. Indeed, the only produce which liis l>een commandeered for" aa long a* that is frozen meat. The rest ha« been paid out lor produce well within four years, showins; tho exti.-.ordinary wealth thai has poured iuU> Xew Zealand in a limited period of time. To oralyoe tho statement it ha« to bo noted that the "commandeer" on the part of tho Imperial Government commenced on I various dales in different years, «o that tho j amount of money receiwl from this sorrcc does r.ot represent tho wholo sum received for our primary product* durir.tlie war roriod. The following tablo shows tho date- tho commandeer coramcnccd, and the quantity represented:— Date. Quantity. Mutton—Mar. ;!rd, 1015 .. 12,555,812 car. lvamb--Mar. 3rd, 1915 .. U,236,155 t*r. Bcc{—Mar. 3rd. 191.1 .. ".2,764,019 qre. 4th, 1915 .. 2,305,313 cratrt liiittt-r— Nov. 20ttu 1915 .. 1.JD9.T30 boses Woo!—I)iv. I*l, t9l£ .. 1,616,773 bales Slipe wc«il—Mar. 3lit. 1917 330,281 bales Sheepskin*—Feb. sth, 1917 5,566,& M Hides—Mar. 19th. 1917 .. S7O.SC9 Schcelitc—Sept. 20;h, 1915 774 toss The payments aro mu-dc up as folio*.s: — £ Frown meat .. .. 41..">12,5t2 I'twew Iyls-16 ecu son .. .. 915,104 ( hi<o: li'lMi season .. ",271.952 1917-18 jearou .. .. j,013,29i5 131> i vl9 reason .. .. a£St,3li (. lu«\sc 1919-20 aeuoa .. .. 798.593 llu'ter 1917-Ia season .. .. 2,529,032 Uu-.tcr 1915-19 ec.«<in .. 2,995,589 Huiter 1»1W» f<syon .. 411.283 Bu'.tor <^iuili'atlands .. G22.213 Scbpoli'.c .. 173,918 Wool .. 39,415.152 companies' slipe wool .. 5.350,905 Sh<-vpsiLi;vt J,25.5,7(2 ill'. t'i . . , .Jo, l>Co j Oim-T busic»» 1,735,449 j Grand total JE113.122.056

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