SHIPPING OATS TO ENGLAND.
The “ Otago Daily Times ” says:—" About 10,000 bushels of oats, known as * Sparrow Bills,’ and grown on Edendale, Southland, were shipped Home last season by the N. Z. and A. L. Company, and realised the satisfactory price of 2s 4jd at Port Chalmers, the freight being 40s. The Company’s manager at Home writes to the Company here with reference to these pats as follows : —* The Edendale shipments have been sold at 29s to 2Ss per quarter of 3361 b, and at these prices, with freight at 40s, they have netted over 2s 4d per bushel in New Zealand. At 28s per quarter they just net 2s 4d. The oats are very much admired, notwithstanding their being somewhat thick in the skin. If you can send me bright oats, such as are grown in Canterbury, and free from wild seed, to be landed here in November, December, and January, I think there is every chance of getting 28s for them, especially if fit for seed. With freight at 70s per ton, and primage 5 per cent., such shipments sold at 28s will net Is 9d per bushel of 401 b, in a New Zealand port; with freight at 60s, they will net Is llid, and with freight at 50a, 2s l;,d per bushel.* This is indeed good news for our farmers in the present position of the oat mft-ket.”
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1964, 10 June 1880, Page 3
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232SHIPPING OATS TO ENGLAND. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1964, 10 June 1880, Page 3
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