Dairy Produce Export Trade.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 266, 15 May 1896, Page 2

Dairy Produce Export Trade.

London March 26. Mr Reeves (Agent-General) has thrown himself into tbe work of ferreting out the truth about the produce trade, and is seeing leading importers, agents, and consignees, daily. On Tuesday he went down to the docks, and saw many things on which he prefers to suspend his judgment. His attention, however, was specially drawn to two object lessons. On the quay lay a number of boxes of butter, shipped with the greatest care at a temperature of 15 deg. They had been landed a couple of days, and the temperature of the batter had risen to 40deg. and in some cases 48deg. He noticed other boxes surrounded, and in certain instances covered, by bales of greasy, stinking wool. Query— What would the flavor of this butter be ? In our dairy produce notes attention has been constantly drawn to amazing facts like these, but it is not always easy to allocate the blameworthy parties. Generally speaking, perhaps the consignees are negligent and the culprits, but not always. Occasionally it happens the consignor is tardy in advising his agents at this side, and the produce lies at the docks some days before the consignee receives advices. In one case which came under my notice some three years ago the agent did not receive any intimation from the consignor until 12 days after the boat bringing the conment had docked. He had never done business with the colonist before, and had, as it happened, nothing in this particular boat from his ordinary clients — Times.