THE SHIPPING PROBLEM.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13929, 11 July 1917, Page 2

THE SHIPPING PROBLEM.

PRIME MINISTER'S REASSURING STATEMENT.

SEVENTEEN LARGE SHIPS AR

BANGED.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 10,

In the House this afternoon, Ifr Hasscy interrupted the Addrcss-iu-Keply debate to state that the Government had been actively engaged endeavouring to overcome the shipping shortage, and they had now arranged to have seventeen large ships, each capable of carrying 100,000 carcasses, to load in the Dominion between now and September next. These would not be able to take all the produce now in store, but lie did not expect the supply of ships would stop in September, and the outlook was decidedly better than for the last six months, 110 had also received word that the Board of Trade intended to take the whole of next, season's output r>f cheese, lie had not got nil Hip particulars yet, but lie intended to convene a' eonfereni'c nf cheese makers at an * i'firly date.