MEAT TRADE RETURNS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14744, 25 October 1915, Page 6

MEAT TRADE RETURNS.

(Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 25, As sin wing flic rapid clearance of freezing stores, it is estimated that, after the steamers at present loading have been despatched, the quantity of meat available for shipment by November loth will only equal 205,000 freight carcases. The steamerg Karnmea, Rangatirn, Knikbura, and Star of Scotland will be available to load this. * Payments for meat purchased for the Imperial Government since supplies were / requisitioned have totalled over £ 5,500,000, an average of over ■£700,000 per month. These figures indicate the manner in which the freezing companies of the Dominion have been relieved by the ample shipping facilities now available. No less than eleven new freezing works are either contemnlated or in erection, providing 900.00: i -freight carcases apace, and, in ndditkn, nresent chamber space provides for a further 900,000.