STORAGE AND SHIPPING
GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATION. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 17. The prospect of being able to quit the large stock of perishable produce held in store in the dominion, also the possibility that next season there may be fewer ships available for the New Zealand trade, was considered- by Cabinet, and a cable was sent to Mr Massey on a number of points connected with the shipping difficulty. Cabinet decided at a conference with the National Efficiency Board to requisition a committee of the Board of Trade to go Into the whole problem of production, storage, and shipping, and report to a Government conference.
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Southland Times, Issue 17938, 18 May 1917, Page 5
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