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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12586, 17 October 1911, Page 7

A number of warships were relegated to the scrap heap by the British Admiralty a f e v weeks ago and were ?old to ship-breakers for bracking up. The vessels included the battleship Camperdown for £28,003 ,to the Shipbreaking Company (Ltd.), London. The battle ship Repulse, launched m 1904, was soWl for £33,500. Throe torpedo-boat destroyers, the Contest, Shark and Hardy, realised respectively £1760, £1675, and £1400.

In conversation with a representative of the Mastei'ton Age, Mr J. C. Cooper, managing director of tho Wellington Farmers' Meat Company, stated that increased charge of 7^ per dent., imposed m London -for cold storage will mean a heavy toll upon the produce of this Dominion. At the present time, the total charges from the ship's hold to the Smithfield market amount to $d per lb. The increaso will represent 7^ per cent, on possibly six different forms of handling. It will mean, approximately, about 3d per head on all carcases of mutton ajid lamb shipped Home. This would represent, on an output equal to that of the company last season, viz., 120,000, a sum«of no less than £1500. Taking the Dominion a& a whole, the loss will run into many thousands of pounds.