BANKS PENINSULA FARMERS' CLUB.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 609, 16 May 1882, Page 2

BANKS PENINSULA FARMERS' CLUB.

A meeting of this Club was held on Saturday, at the Head of the Bay, Mr Piper, Vice-President, in the Chair. MINUTES. The minutes were read and confirmed. CORRESPONDENCE. The following important letters from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company was read :— "Bank of New Zealand, Akaroa, 28th April, 1882. " The Sec. Farmers' Club, " Dear Sir, —In reply to your letter re shipment of cheese, the N.Z.L and M.A. Company, Christchurch, write as follows :

—-Freight for Cheese. After the most careful consideration I have concluded to advise our friends not to ship cheese or butter in t:e ordinary vessels under the usual conditions, and in support of my decision I would refer you to the enclosed extract on the subject from our last London letter. I am, however, now in communication with the charterers of the ship Mataura. which loads at Port Chalmeis, and which, as you are aware, is fitted with refrigerating machinery, with the object of endeavoring to secure space for a trial shipment thereby, and hope to advise you herein within a few days. There is no doubt that occasional shipments of prime ripe cheese may reach London in good condition, but the chances are against it, and the probabilities are that in nine cases out of ten disappointment to shippers would be the result. If your clients desire to ship notwithstanding my advice, I shall bo happy to undertake the sale of the consignment, and shall see that the produce has careful attention both here and in London.'—Yours etc., " Jas. Callender, " Per Mannger." " Enclosed is extract from London letter. —Yours, etc.,

" W. H. Hargreaves, " Agent." " Extract from London, 21st Feb., 1882.' Through Sydney agents we received two consignments of butter, made by an association of Farmets in the well known agricultural districts to the west of Sydney, where butter of excellent quality is made. This association made one shipmend as ordinary cargo, per s.s. Sorata, and the other in the frozen chamber of the Cuzco. The former, like all shipments of similar character, became heated, and had to be dealt with on its merits, 64s per cwt being ob;•lined for it, a price which we regret had to be accepted for butter which had originally been in good condition, and which had simply depreciated in course of transit from New South Wales. On arrival of the Cuz *o, due information having been given to the trade of the shipment of butter by that vessel in frozen chambers, we were enabled to sell it in various lots at 108s and 110s per cwt. Assuming, as may reasonably be done, that the butter from same shippers and of similar origin was of similar quality, the great advantage which that supped in frozen chambers reaped may at once be seen, an advantage far outweighing the additional cost involved ; and while for butter shipped under ordinary conditions, the market here must ever be fitful and unsatisfactory; it it be sent in good condition in cool or frozen chambers with regularity of supply, the demand ought to increase rather than diminish.

The Chairman said he thought the letter was one which should be placed before the club for their consideration as soon as possible. No d-suht. this would be best done by its insertion in the Akaroa Mail. Any discussion on the matter could take placo at their next meeting.

From same re shipment of butter per Mataura. (Already published.) From the New Zealand Shipping Company as follows.-—

" Christchurch, May 5, 1882. "Dear Sir, —I am in reieipt of your letter of 2nd inst, we can give you spice in a separate coolroom on the ■ Mataura' for one or two eases of cheese, the freight from Port Chalmers will he 80s per ton, gross weight, you had better send the cheese forward in about a fortnight and advise our Manager at Dunedin by what steamer it is shipped so that he can look after its transhipment. Yonrs, etc.,

" Isaac Gibbs. '' Acting Secretary." Mr Checkley said he would send the two cases of cheese if the club liked.

Mr Chappell thought one of the cases had better be sent from Wainui. Mr Checkley said he merely asked to send as an experiment for the good of the club. After discussion ifc was resolved on tho motion of Mr Boothroyd, "That Mr Checkley send one case and Mr Chappell another, both to be sent in the club's name, but at tho individuals risk. ACCOUNTS. An account from the Mail Office was passed foi payment. adjournment. It was then resolved to adjourn the meeting till Saturday, 27th, at same time and place.