DESPATCH Of PRODUCE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1920, 1 December 1913, Page 8

DESPATCH Of PRODUCE.

. Duneditij Xcsombi'v 29. interviewed this mornine, .Mr. ,3 I? Scott, secretary for the South Island Association said: "Thanks to f|„. oxceHeiit arrangements mn.de bv tliu shipping oomjMiuics, wo arc now gettiu" our dairy.produpe away in a most $»♦/£ factory maimer, and by next week V« shall beat normal conditions, in faci. no arc about, tins now. Mm Kia. Om Scares tW 5 ' T 1 1 U 10 fnSloffiM e 011 ijoaia. M 7 ciatcs chccso and HMO boxes butter, all railed from liuvediu snipping factories, and 8935 crater cheese and 8340 boxes butter. . .Th,'» value of the shipment is over £56:000* aU oi which will be in the producers'' hands early next wests,, as it was' Sold i.o.b. to various buyers. By thcMUmntaka at the Bluff next week 1 «hhlj ship another 6000 erates of clseeso froju-Bluif shippers, and about 4000 boxes .butler jvili bo railed from Diniediri In liier, shortI,y. I shall ship another 3000 crates of cheese and 500 boxes of butter at Dunedni. l'iio Kia Ora, in addition -"to dairy produce, has some 800 D crates if .frozen rabbits, partly railed.from Otago, and also a Jargo shipment of wool,'flax. tallow, and other things, inchnlin? oven a valuable lot of sealskins in ©asks. So our export trade is well maintained, despite tlw disastrous, foolish, mid utterly unwarrantable strike. Out'' Cantorbury factories n.ro getting ■ all their dairy produce away , by tire' Himutaka awl other steamers, and I feel-sure that tho producers in the country., will fully recognise that tho shipping companies aro going well for hs, indeed, in spile of _tlH> great difficulties whi-ch' they are daily facing, I am finite hopeful that all will go well now with the export trade, which brings us tho- money wo all .need,"