MEAT STORED FOR BRITAIN.
SATISFACTORY FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENT. WELLINGTON, June 6. Representations were made by the Minister of Finance on behalf of the New Zealand Government, urging the Imperial Government, to pay for meat now held in st<sre in New Zealand on account of the Imperial Government, valued -at about £4,000,000. The accumulation, of course, was due to the acute shortage, of refrigerated shipping, which had been withdrawn and diverted from the colonial trade. The matter was taken up by the High Commissioner of New Zealand, who now advised Mr Mycro (Acting Minister of Finance) that the sum of £3]COO,OOO has been paid by the Imperial Government to the credit of the public account in London on account of meat stored in New Zealand. This payment will minimise the difficulties of finance which producers had to face under the abovementioned conditions, and will bo heartily welcomed by all interested throughout the dominion.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3352, 12 June 1918, Page 8
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151MEAT STORED FOR BRITAIN. Otago Witness, Issue 3352, 12 June 1918, Page 8
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