IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT MEAT SUPPLY
Already this montli! flva hig stcam&rs i • have been, dispatchod with full cargoes :• of meat purchased"under vtlie ■ Imperial Government . meat / supply ■ scheme. These are the. Tudnipura,. La , Blanca, ' Delphic, i Athenic,. sina! Oorintfhic; . ana : five others, Rualiine, JWnierset,'Opawa, Tainui, and Makarini,are , timed., to. ■ leavo by August 29.' v - • Since t-lio' inauguration of tho scheme, ... thirty steamers have been dispatched, . carrying 153,436 quarters beef, 1,110,115 - carcasses .miittouj' 1,767,873 carcases lamb, purchased on behalf of the lin- : peiial Government, and 13,751 quarters .beef,: 92,058 carcasses mutton, ; "124,117. carcasses lamb havo been loaded into the five vessels at present onftho'load- . . ing berth-in the Dominion. /•'The' meat in storo awaiting shipment on. July., 31 waß equal to 1,865,283 601b. carcasses, and tho total payments iip to and including August-10 amount to £3,375,755 . 19s. 3d.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2539, 13 August 1915, Page 8
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134IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT MEAT SUPPLY Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2539, 13 August 1915, Page 8
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