AN AUCKLAND COUP.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1807, 21 July 1913, Page 4

AN AUCKLAND COUP.

SHIPMENT OF DAIRY PRODUCE,

(By Telegraph..—Special Correspondent.) Auckland, July 20. The New Zealand Shipping Company and tlio Shaw Savill Company liavo decided to ship fortnightly butter cargoes direct to their big steamers at Auckland instead of sending the produce to Wellington for transhipment, 'llio shipping companies have decided on this course owing mainlv to tlio increasing quantities of butter coming forward from the province for export. For the season closing 011 Vpril 30 last, 17G,700cwt. of butter, valued at JC!I3O,GC3, was exported, in addition to lli,B7lcwt. of cheese, valued at i:i!l,G6o. Tho facilities for taking .this great quantity of produce to Wellington were found to be quite inadequate, iho two shipping companies were under an arrangement with the Union Company, and the Corinna ran regularly in tlio summer months between Onelnuigfl. find the southern port, witlv tlio butter shipments. This vessel is now quite too Email to carry the quantities coming forward each fortnight. Formerly the Corinna was capable of taking not only the produce from Auckland, but also tliat from laia* naki in one trip. For the past year or two, however, the Corinna has had to make separate trips to Onehurvga and New Plymouth to copo with the expanding trade, but the trado lias now outgrown oven that expedient, and the shipping companies were faced with tlio alternative of having a much larger vessel placed on the Oneluuiga-Wollinfton service, or else arranging that the big steamers should call direct at Auckland to bo leaded. The latter idea has found most favour, and henceforward the big cargo vessels will make Auckland the semi-final port of departure, mid it is thought proliable that in a short time Auckland will 1,0 made tho iinal port of departure.