Butter Export.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 210, 6 March 1895, Page 2

Butter Export.

Good news for butter exporters has reached Melbourne— namely, that the trial shipment of butter per s.s. Thermopjlie as ordinary cargo, at 40s Der ton measurement, instead of in the freezing ohambers at £8 3s 4d per ton weight, has proved a complete Buccess. In the first week in September last. Messrs Holderson and Neilson packeda ton of Melbourne winter butter in accordance with the patent of Mr Sewell, consisting of the use of large brine casiDgs, which keep the butter cool and preserved. The butter reached London shortly before fche Chriatrnaa holidays, and was taken to Messrs Lidstone and Co. of 37 Great Tower street who were informed of the conditions under which it was packed and shipped. The firm is reported to have predicted certain failure, but the splendid condition of the butter fairly astonished the experts. Mr Lidstone stated that had he not seen the butter himself he could not have believed that it could have arrived in such excellent and marketable condition. It is said that this mode of shipment though not a new idea in the colonies, is calcuclated to fairly revolutionise the Australasian butter trade, as it allows a savinfj of many pounds per ton upon existing methods of consignment, without deteriorating the article. One firm in London haa cabled to Melbourne for another five tons of butter, to be shipped under similar conditions. _ ______^^^_