DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XL, Issue 11435, 27 November 1915, Page 4

DAIRYING INDUSTRY.

LARGE COOL DAIRY STORE.; Per Press Association. Invercargill, Nov. 36. At the Bluff to-day Sir Joseph Ward opened the new cool dairy store, which is the most up-to-date in the Dominion. It has a capacity of 25,000 crates, or 50,000 cheeses. There was a very representative gathering of members of the South Island Dairy Association, and directors of the Southland dairy factories. Thei’e were six thousand crates of cheese in store at the time. Mr A. F. Hawk, chairman of the Bluff Harbour Board, called upon Sir Joseph Ward to open the store formally. Sir Joseph dealt with the rapid development of the dairying industry, and said the time was close at hand when dairy produce would he second in importance in point of value among our exports. Commenting on the action of the Imperial Government, through the New Zealand Government, in requisitioning the meat exports and a third of our cheese exports, he said that since March 3rd up to November 23nd there bad been shipped in round numbers 354,000 quarters of beef, 2,068,000 carcases of mutton, 2.999.000 carcases of lamb. Of this, 221.000 quarters of beef, 1,471,000 of lamb had already arrived at their destination of a value of nearly £6,000,000. The fact that so much of the Dominion’s produce had been requisitioned and exported with extraordinarily little friction showed how was brought about the cooperation between the producers, and the Government. He believed that this spirit of co-operation among all classes throughout the Empire would enable the Imperial Government to bring victory to the British arms, a luncheon followed the formal opening, the gathering proving very successful.