STORAGE SPACE.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13927, 9 July 1917, Page 1

STORAGE SPACE.

A GRAVE PROBLEM, RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE GOVERNMENT, One of the greatest difficulties confronting the' Government is I lie shortage' of cool storage, due to the fact that there are insufficient, ships to take the produce away, from one end of the Dominion to the other all the available space is crammed with meat, cheese, and butter, and week by week the problem grows more acute. The Government isMoing its best to grapple with the difficulty, and the Prime Min-. ister (tin; Eight lion. W. P. Massey) has already announced that it is hoped the production of butter will comim-ncc on August Ist as usual, at the opening of the season. ; The position in regard to cheese is very serious, but Mr Massey has afso in (his connection expressed (lie oj/iniou that its production will not be Interfered Willi. ' J': Willi a View to assisting the Government, the-'Requisitioning Boarfl,'tho Board of Trade, and the Imperial Supplies Board have held a conference vfith the National Efficiency Board regarding storage space, and as a result! certain recommendations have been made to the Government, These' li'avo not yet, been divulged, as they havo to k considered by Cabinet.' , . Representatives of the freezing companies held a. conference in '■■ Welling-, ton-last week to discuss the same sub-