MEAT FOR THE ARMY

Southland Times, Issue 17830, 6 September 1916, Page 5

MEAT FOR THE ARMY

N.Z. PRODUCERS RECEIVE £12,033,719. SINCE MARCH, 1915. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 5. The Imperial Supplies Department, on behalf of the Imperial Government, has paid out to New Zealand producers to date £12,033,719 since the Department started purchasing meat in March, 1915. Tlic quantity so purchased to date is 975,948 quarters of beef, 3,946,930 carcases of mutton, and 5,670,792 carcases of lamb. Already one hundred steamers have delivered cargoes of meat under the purchase scheme, and eighteen steamers are now on route from the Dominion to the United Kingdom with meat cargoes, and two are loading in the Dominion. Of the meat lleet running since the scheme started one has been lost, the Clan MacTavish. Payment in addition to meat consist of £917,205 for 13,816 tons of cheese, and £42,693 (advanced! for 235 tons of scheelite. The Department has also purchased and delivered for the New Zealand Government butter to the value of £29,898, and cheese to the value of £11,814. This is for transports and camps.