EXPORT OF PRODUCE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 106, 6 May 1915, Page 8

EXPORT OF PRODUCE

CANTERBURY'S POSITION. A deputation of Canterbury producers waited on the Prime Minister (Right Hon. W. F. Massey) this afternoon and represented that, owing to the drought which obtains in that province, the position is very serious from the point of view of the producer, and that unless something is done to relieve the pressure during the next few weeks serious loss would ensue, nob only to the Canterbury people, but to tne Dominion as a "whole. It was pointed out that, with the arrival of the early winter cold, stock was going back in condition and becoming unfit for shipment. The deputation, therefore, asked that the Prime Minister would use his influence to give Canterbury shippers as much shipping space as possible during the next month. The Prime Minister promised to do all that lay in his power to meet the requests of the deputation, but he pointed out that May was the worst month that the Government had experienced, and he did not expect much relief until the number of ships was increased in June. In any case, he added, he was doing all that could possibly be done to relieve the pressure.