IMPERIAL SUPPLIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 88, 8 January 1919, Page 7

IMPERIAL SUPPLIES

A RETURN OF BUSINESS SOME ASTONISHING FIGURES A return just compiled' covering the operations of tlio lmperi.il Supplies Department contains some extraordinary iißures'showing (lie.huge business that. (Ins little Department has carried on since it was established on March 3, ISM"). It should be remembered always ll'at-the Department has not since that tnr.c dealt with ail the products which■ era no\r'<in.tho list. At fii-nt it .was ctineermHl only with, frozen meat. In (he peViod of less ihan four •.'tilrs the Department, had .made • payma-.ila lip to l)oceml;ev 111 amounting , to. tho ,stuliemlous (olnl of••jCiS,"So.l,Bß9.' The total was' made' up'a's follows:— ..■■- ■■:' ■■" ' : ' ■•■■;• ■ '■'■■ ■ '^e IM-ozen meat '. «... • 30,8ia,n0-l Cheese— ... . , . 1915-lC season ', 91",7)8 191(!-i7 EPiiton. ....;.....„.■,;....,; 3,295,Vi7 .1i11.7-18 season ■ i,85, r ),79u ■1918-19 season- .- .-. 9J470,r lintter— .... ... . 191M8 season '. 2,929,975 1918-19. season .'.';;... '...;...... . 720,i128•Sclieejite . ; ;.'„. 128,802 JV.ool . ..;......... L..;.......,', ' 27^082,319 irerzing company's slipo . wool 3,292,875 Hlieepsltins 1,381.714 . !«les ' ', .704,577 ttlier...busincss '~....... i;i35,997 '_ -.Total''. . 478,M)!),889 - Upwards of-250 cargoes of meat have been loaded oil this coast and dispatched to ,tho .o.rder of .the Imperial Board of irade.'-'.L'he quantities, of, meat were as io'Ilow:— . . ; '/. . '...■'...-... Quartore of beef ; .' ...' 2,293,217 Mutton (freight carcasses) 7,974,075 Lnmb (freight carcasses) 9,323,813I'he meat in store: on November 30 last, for;, which no .spaea had been allbcotwl in: oversens steamers, .was Island, 2,G12,35K) fright carcasses,, arid south Island ),GGO,G37 freight carcasses, lliis may be taken as 6ome indication of the amount of meat now in.the.stores. nomo of this nieat.h'as no. doubt been o,located' space in outward- steamers eince November 30, but tho. amount of meat so accounted for must .be at least equalled by the killings'since'.that date, lliis year tho season.has been late, nnd the Wellington work.} are just now beginning to run at full capacity. On December IC, ,1918, there were in store.-in;the North Island 227,079 crotes pf cheese, and 28,738' in the South' Island. -.''■' ■. . ■ .On the same date, there were in 6lorb 189,207 boxes of butter in North Island stores, and.27,855 irt the South Island. •I'lio sum paid for wool lias been paid for 1,122,279 bales, pf-n-total of l.lfit.OMl bales valued. The number of bales of! wool available for ehipnisnt on Decem-! ber 31 .was 535,411 of greasy .wool, and i 112,244 .of fcoured and .fellmongers , slipe ! wool. . ' These-Jigiires. lake no account; of the operations in freezing companies' slipe wool, which- is bought under diflevent arrangements. On December 31 : there vere in-store 60.525 casks of (a|low'j making '<i,IM tons. This product l is not beiiiß purchased on account of the Imptrial (Jsverninent. It is awaiting shipment at owners' risk,