SHORT OF SHIPS
MEAT WORKS TROUBLE FARMERS RATIONED. HANDS DISMISSED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Because an insufficient number of ships are available in New Zealand to carry cargoes away the killing cf meat fcr export at many North Island works has been greatly curtailed. The storage space at most of these works has practically been filled up, and until the congestion is relieved by loading out of stocks the companies are forced to ration killing services among the farmers and stock buyers. The Wesifisld Freezing Company has been obliged to pay off the men engaged on one of the mutton killing rings, involving, together with employees in other departments whose activities are curtailed, between 100 and 130 workers. LOCAL WORKS BOTH OPERATING NORMALLY Both the Gear Meat Company and the Wellington Meat Export Company stated today that the delay on the waterfront had not affected the operatidns of their works. The loading out of .carcasses is to be resumed tonight.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 67, 21 March 1939, Page 12
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