MEAT FOR ENGLAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4012, 19 August 1915, Page 7

MEAT FOR ENGLAND.

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(Press Association Telegram.) WELLINGTON Aug. 18. Six steamers are loading frozen meat in Now Zealand ports at the present time and four additional steamers will arrive before tlie end of the month. The quantity of meat in store at tho end of J uly was 1,865,000 freight carcases, but this total has been reduced materially during the past eighteen days.

The Prime Minister mentioned today that up to August 16 the Govorn.mont had shipped 168.033 quarters of beef, 1,278,570 carcases of mutton, and 1,957,663 carcases of lamb ,to the order of the Imperial Authorities under the scheme' of purchase instituted on March 3 last. The total amount of the purchase money had been £3,952,863. In answer to a question regarding to tho use made of the meat by the. Imperial Government. Air Massey said that the lamb was not used for army purposes. It was sold to. tho ordinary consumers in the Mother Country, tile Board of Trade sinmlv selling it through the usual trade channels. Tho object of the State’s intervention was to keep down prices. All tho beef and a portion of the mutt-ou wero used for army purposes and the balance of tlie mutton went- into ordinary consumption. The scheme had Avorked smoothly and, from New Zealand’s point of view, profitably.