DOMINION’S MEAT EXPORT
.03,000,000 .MARK PASSED. STATEM ENT BY THK PREMIER. (Press Association Teleerrain.., WEIddNGTON, .Inly 29. “Our purchases of meal on hohall of the Imperial (lovernmont passed the £3.000,000 mark to-day.” said flic Prime Minister this evening. “'l’his enterprise, as the figures indicate, has grown to very largo proportions. Indeed, in spite of shortage ol shins, il has been of material advantage to the people of the country, since farmers Imre. been assured of an undisturbed market at good prices lor their stork.” Mr Massey added that the publication of . the figures would show the public that the shortage ol ships, while n serious matter, had been not quite as grave as some people had been led to believe. The total amount of meat exported since the outbreak of war was rather greater than the total for the preceding twelve months. The Dominion had been a million carcases to the ..good up to the, end of-Febru-ary. In other words, the exports had been a million carcases above the normal. The shortage of ships had occurred in the succeeding three months.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3995, 30 July 1915, Page 2
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181DOMINION’S MEAT EXPORT Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3995, 30 July 1915, Page 2
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