GOOD NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 28, 28 December 1917, Page 3

GOOD NEWS.

' COOL STORES CLEARING.

SHIPPING NOW AVAILABLE. Sir Joseph Ward, in the course of Ids reply to a deputation at Christchurch last week, stated that ,#ithin the next month or two the whole of tjie produce at present in the Dominion’s cool stores would be cleared away. Tjie statement elicited hearty' applause. ~ ; Mr John O’Halloran said that he wpuld like to have the statement repeated, as it appeared to give much satisfaction.

Sir Joseph said that he was not in a position to make public the number of ships that were available, but he could say that before the next three months were over everything held in the freezing works would be cleared away by ships to the Old Country. A number -of the steamers coming to do this were already filled with ‘Ordinary cargo in Australia, but the freezing chambers were being kept for New Zealand produce. “We are going to have relief to this extent,” Sir Joseph added, “that we will commence, the new season right throughout the Dominion by the clearance of these accumulations which it has been beyond the power df the'Government or of the ‘shipowners to overcome.” ‘