AUCKLAND BUTTER TRADE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 56, 29 November 1907, Page 6

AUCKLAND BUTTER TRADE.

-r»/: .■. ■■' :."■■■ .; • - TRANSPORT DIF|,iGIIIiTIES. ■ ." (BY TELEGIUJ'H.— TOESS ASSOCIATION.) ' '' Auckland, ;ftbyeinber: ! 28. : '. ;' 'Learning that there was ser'tous'complaint amongst' 'shippers regarding , ';the''• conditions 'under which butter is : beirig^transported,' a 'J Herald " ■' re-prosentatiye " ; ni?ide 'so'mo'- inquiries to-day, and'was ihformM that affairs, 'had reached such a stagd; : that some consignees had held back -butier'' rather than allow it to face the conditions which butt'sr intended for the "Moray'shiFe'; at .-..Wellington had to face. Ono buyer'said there were upwards of 1100 boxes sent out''to"Oiiehunga to the's.s. Rotoiti, tho Corimia'- (Saturday's boat) not connecting with* th'o'Mora'yshire. Tho Rotoiti had no cobr'''st6'rago."accommodation,.and consequently he"dfoh'ded to.think what the butter would be-'liW when it-ar-rived at Wellington, considering- the. warm weather. '" Such facilities';-orfather absenco of: facilities," ho went 0n , , , ",should not bo tolerated at the premier 'pdrt ; of the Dominion. We want a direct service, and the sooner the shipping companies ~wako up to the fact the better. If'the local-companies are not going to give us direct shipping; then wo should induce another, company to come in and take the whole contract for; Auckland butter. It will be almost possible to swim in that butter when it gets- to Wellington, and the agents for tho Morayshiro have t(je option' of refusing to tako. the-butter,, or of charging usoxtra rates of-freezing it down again. That's tho risk wehayo to run when we are getting complaints .•■from England about tho butter having deteriorated for an inch or so in from the box,, "and that is duo to nothing else than tho-' defrosting' which takes.placo in transport. tooOnchunga and transhipment at Wollingt'on./'AVe- are sick of the whole,business."'-'W-Sv-''.'"■(