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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14869, 18 September 1918, Page 7

The Maoris in tho East Coast electorate have already raised £25,000 for the Maori Soldiers' Fund, ay.d srr> now busy doing what they can to raise another £25^000 by March.

Mr James Begg (Efficiency Board Commissioner for the Otago Military Districts lias issued a circular stating that owrng to a shortage of tonnage there is at present a considerable congestion of the dominion's products in the various stores rind freezing works. Although it is understood, he says, that the prospects aro a little "brighter than they wc-re. in tnis respect, it seems imnro^nLle that anything iT' r«? normal shipping facilities will be available foi; some time. This beintr tHo fpse. it would be prudent to anticipate tlint the freezing works will not tV able to accommodate their usual amount nf meat next seftson, and the board thinks that formers interested would be well advised to make preparations for the carrying _over of a considerable quantity oi stock next winter. It is naturally impossible r.o curately. to forecast the position so f«r ahoad, hut the board considers is- would be vrise for farmers to ;>rrnri<?o for additional winter feed in .goof. time.