EXPORTING DAIRY PRODUCE.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 572, 6 January 1882, Page 2

EXPORTING DAIRY PRODUCE.

Tub prospectus of the Canterbury Frozen ikent and Dairy Produce Export Company, has been published. It is to be a limited company, with a capital of .£20,000, in 2,000 shares of £10 each Amongst the provisional directors we find many of the names of the leading merchants and stock-owners in Canterbury, and we are sorry to see only one Peninsula name amongst them—that of Mr James Hay, of Pigeon Bay, The ■campan v (says the prospectus)—

Is projected with the object of providing the nacaeis of preparing and rendering fit for export the Surplus Stock and Dairy Produce of this district by the Refrigerating or other process

The present intention of the Promoters is to restrict the Company's operations to the preparation of meat and dairy produce for shipment on owner's account, and to arrange for the sale thereof in the London market.

It is intended that the Company shall have power either to purchase or ship on owners account, as may be found desirable ; and also, that they shall control the Sale as well as the freezing and export of produce, until the scheme is fully in operation, it being evident that a concentration of interests is necessary in placing shipments on the markets.

The prep rration and storage of oheese and Butter for export will become one of the most important operations of the company, and as the market in England for those products is practically unlimited at prices slowing 50 per cent, advance on cheese, and 100 per cent, on butter over those current in this colony, an extensive export may be confidently anticipated. The promoters, recognising this all-important feature in the project, propose to provide cool storage lor butter, i heese, &c, where such may be collected from farmers as produced, and accumulated until a vessel is ready to

receive it,

The formation and active operation of such a company as that proposed cannot fail to be of vast benefit to the Peninsula. We do not for one moment doubt its success, for the demand for our products in England is practically unlimited. It is undoubtedly for the benefit of all farmers to assist the gentlemen who have taken the preliminary steps; in every way in their power. If ordinary care is taken, our produce is quite good enough to establish a name at Home, and no doubt the time is not far distant when the quotations for Peninsula cheese will be as regularly given in the Loudon market as those of Cheshire are now.