MEAT EXPORTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16807, 17 March 1915, Page 8

MEAT EXPORTS.

STATEMENT BY PRIME MINISTER [From Our Correspondent.] WELLINGTON, March 16.

A review of the recent meat shipments from Now Zealand and the future supply of tonnago was given by the Prime Minister to the “Lyttelton Times” correspondent this evening. Mr 'Massey said that tho difficulty was not so much shipping as the fact that tho freezing chambers were full or nearly so.. “Wo live upon our exports,” he said, “and it is a source of satisfaction to know that although there, is this difficulty our exports are being sustained at above the average. Five ships are a,t present leading meat in the Dominion and two more, the Rotorua and Kumara, have arrived to-day. Our exports of meat under the new arrangements with the Imperial Government up till last night amounted to the following:—Beef 172,086 quarters, mutton 26 360 carcases) lamb 77,150 carcases. This was taken away by six steamers. The loading arrangements for the month of April are as follows: lonic, capacity 96.000 carcases; Arawa, 87.000; Pakeha, 104,000; Zealandic, 104.000; Turakina, 128.000: Muritai, 107,250; Hawkes Bay, 120 200; Star of Scotland. 80,000; total, 824,450 carcases.”

The Prime Minister also mentioned that six steamers of an aggregate capacity of 519,000 carcases, had already been fixed to loa’d during May 7.