BUTTER FOR ITALY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1132, 20 May 1911, Page 8

BUTTER FOR ITALY.

f A COLONIAL OPENING. I "One firm of importers has had two ' calls this week from agents desiring to |: 'contract-for 4000 and 3000 boxes re- !' spectively per month for nest season \ for shipment to Genoa," says tho Lon- ; don correspondent of an Australian 'paper in. an articlo' concerning buttei. !• •' : Tlio houso in question has fixed up a i shipment of 1000 boxes direct from ; Sydney to Naples. This business wears | a promising look at tho moment, but ; to.carry il through; on permanent lines, i on a proper basis, tho Orient Company ! should certainly put Naples and London . on tho same basis for freights, and not- ; .surcharge the former 2s. lid. per cwt.! i I understand that tho difficulty is at your end, and not'in Fenehurch Avenue. i ' Tho shipping combany should give a ! helping hand to',d'' i i'rew trade. ' r "„ "The ideal way qf working thobusi-" j ness would be by N.D.L. direct steame.r, ! to Genoa.. Efforts aro'being made to' I arrange accordingly. Genoa is the comj mercial port of South Europe, and is • becoming more and more important year" ! by year. Australia should establish di- ; rect relations with Genoa for tho.con- | ' voyanco of refrigerated goods. Fruit, ; butter, and meat aro handled there, and 1 the two last-named articles arc exported I regularly from Argentina to Gere?. [ "Tho way of dispatching Australian boxed butter from London is via Milan 1 by rail, a trip of about 10 to 12 days;: | as there is no regular interchange between tho two cities in such goods, on ; tho outward journey. From Milan to ! London' goods only take six days. As | can bo understood, the butter is not im- ■ proved by its 10 to 12 days' passage. I Sent direct from Sydney butter .would j bo 10s. a cwt. better value." r —