IMPERIAL SUPPLIES
£16,500,000 FOR MEAT Up till Saturday last the Deoartmentvof Imperial Government Supplies had purchased and shipped awav (since March 3, 1915)'1,415,026 quarters of beef, 5,494,569 carcasses of mutton, and 7,073,686 carcasses of lamb, the total payments for which amounted to , £16,683,700. ... Tho total payments for cheeso made between November 4, 1915, and Saturday last, amounted to £2,153,707. That amount, included 16,4.40 crates tlißt were on tho torpedoed Rotorua. For Wool the Department, has paid out £10,212,634. _ The return gives some most Interesting details as to the disposition of the wool: — Bales, per Rotorua- (sunk) ... 8,865 Total bales valued 452,999 Total bales shipped 245,286 Bales arrived in 16 steamers 128,688 Bales en route in 15 steamers 103,845 Bales on steamers at berth... 3,888 Bales available for shipment 207,713 Bales (space allotted) in store 84,399 Bales for which no space. . allotted ; 123,314 Total bales paid for 437,754 Total payments ~ £10,212,634 In addition to the foregoing the following amounts have been naid:— . '£. Scheelite 66,295 Sheepskins -. 102,560 Hides .....' A 46,734 Freezing companies slipe wool 367,356 Other business ..-.. 129,492 ■ This makes the grand total pa-id by the Department for New Zealand produce £30,580,226. . ,
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3079, 9 May 1917, Page 7
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190IMPERIAL SUPPLIES Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3079, 9 May 1917, Page 7
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