PORT PIRIE'S CARGO.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1920, Page 4

PORT PIRIE'S CARGO.

WHAT 100,000 CARCASES MEAN. EXTEND FROM SHIP TO PATEA. The loading of the record cargo of produce on the ilner Port Pirie at New Plymouth is proceeding steadily, and yesterday the vessel was working on both sides, New Plymouth meat going on board on one side and Waitara meat on the other side. This arrangement was possible by the Waitara meat being brought from the river port in barges, two having arrived during the day and others last night. v To most people the term "freight carcase," which is used in the reckoning of consignments of frozen meat, does not convey very much information. To some it denotes a piece of nieut about GOlb in weight, but the statement that so many thousand freight carcases have been shipped on a certain steamer might be considered somewhat, vague.

The Port Pirie is now loading the biggest consignment of frozen meat ever taken fropi Taranaki by one boat, namely, about JOO.OOO freight carcases. Another impression of the size of the cargo is gained by stating its weight, which will be about 2700 tons, but this large cargo can be more strikingly visualised by the statement that if the carcases were placed in a single row they would make a line of meat stretching from New Plymouth nearly down to Patea, a distance of 6ft miles. This could be extended another six or seven miles by lining up the i 2,400 crates of cheese also to be shipped by the Port Pirie. It wou>; lie a thick line composed of meat and cheese drawn right through the length of Taranaki from New Plymouth to Patea, demonstrating the rich productiveness of the province.