SHORTAGE OF SHIPPING
CONGESTION AT MEAT WORKS WAIROA MAY STOP KILLING [by TELEGRAM —OWN' CORRKSrOXDEXT] GISBORXE, Saturday Unless almost immediate shipping relief is given to reduce the quantity of meat in the Wairoa freezing works, killings will have to stop after another full week's operations. Mr. H. Crichton, "Wairoa manager for Swifts (N.Z.), Limited, made a statement to this effect to-day, adding that the chambers contained 80,000 freight carcases, which was more than the works could comfortably cope with. Operations were being carried on with difficulty and the present congestion entailed much moving of the meat at present stored to make sufficient room for later killings. Only two small shipping allocations had been made for Wairoa this month, and 15,000 freight carcases were sent away during the week in two shipments, but these were the first for nearly two months. Ihe next boat was not expected until June 16, for which the Wairoa allotment was 15,000 freight carcases, but relief was required long before that.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22724, 10 May 1937, Page 8
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165SHORTAGE OF SHIPPING New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22724, 10 May 1937, Page 8
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