PURCHASES OF MEAT.
TOTAL PRICE, £3.774 795. —* ■ - M [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.]} V^pl " *-» • -Vfnpp eluxgms, Friday. 'J'§f| Up to and including yesterday the meat : - l purchased and shipped bv the Imperial : _ 1 Government Meat Supply Branch on be- Sg half of the Imperial Government comprised " -if 183.371 quarters beef, 1,385,899 carcases ''II mutton, and 2.032.326 carcases lamb. Of --&? this quantity, 111,731 quarters ' beef, vJfIS 708,786 carcases mutton, and 1,229 'tr. carcases lamb have already arrived at their destination, while 59,231 quarters S beef, 539,988 carcases mutton, and 705.729 'I? carcases iamb are en route. The balance, ' viz., 12,359 quarters beef. 137,125 carcases mutton, and 98.367 carcases lamb, -! has been loaded into the vessels at pre- M sent on the loading berth in the Do- -'?j | minion. ' -■ The quantity of meat in store on the - ,7 14th inst. (the date of the last stock- B taking) was 1,660,907 carcases, /-.but thisfi-£s is being rapidly reduced, and after the ' departure of the nine ' steamers - expected: lor September loading"" there should be considerably less than ciC million freight cases in. store. The total purchases amount £3,774,795..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16008, 28 August 1915, Page 9
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