PRODUCE FOR BRITAIN

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 196, 21 July 1941, Page 4

PRODUCE FOR BRITAIN

TWO YEARS OF WAR.

HUGE QUANTITIES SENT. (Press Assn.) WELLINGTON July 20. The very large quantity 01 primary i products sent from New Zealand to I the United Kingdom in less than two years of the war. and the saving 01 i time on the waterfront- under the co- ! operative contract system, were rcI viewed by the Afinister of Marketing ; (Hon. J." G. Barclay) in an address to night. He said it was estimated. ; that there had been a saving of at I least two days on every vessel since the war began. Mr Barclay said that New Zealand had shipped to the United Kingdom 254 (XX) tons of butter, 210.000 tons ot cheese, 59S 000 tons of meat, and had sold to Britain 1.600 000 bales of wool. This represented enough butter to make a wall six feet high from Auckland to AVellington; enough wool to form a continuous line from North Cape to Stewart Island : enough cheese to extend over 1000 miles; and seven times more meat than the weight of the world’s largest liner, the Queen Eliza beth. A tribute to the fanners was paid bv Air Barclay-for their response to the call for increased production. Tic said that the country would be able to ship to Britain 25.000 tons more of cheese than in the first year of the war. The supply of 160 000 tons of cheese to Britain in the coming year would involve working double shifts by existing factories, reopening old factories. and 4000 farmers changing over from butter to cheese. Other sections of the community would have to play their part. Air B a relay said that to fill overseas shins as qnicklv as possible special trains loaded entirely with either butter <jr meat were being despatched from the cool stores and freezing works to the main jKirts. Loading oil the waterfront had been speeded up, with the result that tlie work done by waterfront labour had increased as follows: Alutton and lamb. 41 per cent.; lwcf. 27 ]>er cent.; frozen sundries. 32 per cent. ; butter, 18 per cent.; cheese, 22 per cent.;'and wool, 23 per cent.