THE MILK TRADE
EXPENSES ON A 40-CALLON RUN. The following are osbiitin-t-ocl to bo tho usujil weekly expenses of the milk' trade' in Wellington, based on a run of 40 gallons per d ; 280 gallons at Bd. p 6 {j Railway freight at l}d. ... ... '1 #'-j| Wages, soven days at Bs. ... ... lj> « Horse maintenance ... •••, ••• j- [J Depreciation on outfit ... —0 2 0 Spillage and souring, 10 per cent. 1 17 4 Bad debts, Jd. per gallon ... ... 05 10 17 2 0 Tho total selling price of 280 gallons of milk at 4d. per quart is £18 13s. 4d., which yiolds a weekly balance over cost of £1 1«. 4d. on tho run avaiJablo for supemsory expenses (if any), etc. Tlio same milk retailed at 3Jd. per quart would return £10 Gs. Bd., and thus show a loss on the ran of 15s. 4d. per week. The railway freight charges per gallon from different stations are as follow:— Upper Hutt, id.Waikanao.and Otoki, l}d.; Shannon and Longburn, ljd. ' '
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 497, 3 May 1909, Page 10
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166THE MILK TRADE Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 497, 3 May 1909, Page 10
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