Export Of Butter.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 127, 24 April 1884, Page 3

Export Of Butter.

* fcutter dealers and manufacturers will, fight shy of the English market m future, we_sh*6uid imagine (says the Taranaki Hprald), for most of the consignments of butter which hare been sent home hare proved a loss to tin* sender. Mr Op6kj jun., purchased last year a quantity of prime salt, batter which, Wot realising' a; profitable fijjnre m Sydney, he bad fork warded to England. He has recently re- ; ceived the account of sales of his consign* ment, which shows that thie butter sold l ifor £2 lOh per cwt;i re B lißittf£lo6 7s Bd. Tbe charges are something awful, being actually more than, half what the butter 1 realised. . The, f reißhf was £46 6j Id ; primaee, 1 5 per cent, on freight, £2 5s 4dj interest on freight and primage, 4s 2d ; dock, wharf, and landingr charges, £3 12s 2d ; rnbate on payment before prompt, 12s Id ; fire and marine insurance, Is .lOd; brokerage (If percent), £1 17s 3d J. .commission (2^ per cent), £2 13s 3d. ToUl, £'5612 r 2 J, leaving only £49 15a 6d for the dealer. r ....... ,> ■. ; > '■"