EXPORT OF BEEF
SHIPPING SHORTAGE
CONCERN IN WAIKATO
(By Telegraph— Press Assoeintlon.)
HAMILTON, This Day.
A serious shortage of shipping space suitable for conveying chilled and frozen beef to the. British market is causing grave concern in the Waikato, where large numbers of cattle are waiting dispatch as chillers. The position is causing uncertainty in the stock markets, where the demand has slackened for store cattle. Storage capacity in freezing works in the Auckland Provinces is severely taxed. The position is attributed to extra demands on tha shipping companies because of increased world trade and the slowness and cost of loading on Dominion wharves in comparison with Australia. • I
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1937, Page 10
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109EXPORT OF BEEF Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1937, Page 10
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