Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1905.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42781, 21 September 1905, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1905.

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Mr Alexander Our, of Morrinsville, having kindly allowed us to peruse his account sales and report on the lambs which he sent „ through the Farmers’ Freezing Company, the fol lowing extracts, we are sure, will be of interest to our readers. The report from London states: —“The above line of lambs contained some nice plump specimens, but to be candid, the great majority were plain and unfinished and showed a lack of that plumpness and bloom which is so essential to obtaining good prices on the London market. We were, however, fortunate in obtaining what we feel sure will prove most satisfactory prices.” For 256 of his primest lambs Mr Orr obtained the high price of s£d per lb; the average weight of these lambs was just over 331bs each. As Canterbury i lambs at that time were quoted at 5Ad to s|d, Mr Orr secured a higher price than Canterbury lambs were then bringing. This must be satisfactory to the Freezing Company and Auckland farmers n general, demonstrating as it does that Auckland lambs are actually superior to Canterbury lambs. For his second quality of lambs, the average weight of which was just over 29lbs, Mr Orr received s'|d per lb. There was a difference between the freezing weight of the lambs at the Freezer and the selling weight, of about f of a lb, so that a lamb which weighed 30lbs at the Freezer only weighed just over 29lbs when sold in England. The' following is a comparison between the value Mr Orr would have received for his lambs if he had sold them at the Freezer to Messrs Both wick and Sons, and what he received'by shipping on his own account and selling in England. It must be borne in mind that a 341 b lamb at the Freezer only weighs about 33lbs in England, also we have assumed in this comparison that Mr Orr’s lambs were shorn. Bothwick’s price for a 341 b lamb at the Freezer, including skin and fat, was 4£d per lb equal to 12s o £d; for a 301 b lamb, second quality, his price was at 4d per lb equal to 10s, Mr Orr received in England . 331 b lamb at s£d per lb ... 15s 9J Value of pelt ... ... Is 6 Value of fat ... ... 2 ; J Value of kidneys & tongues 3

Total value of lamb ... 17s 9 Charges for freezing, shipping, wharfage and commission in England : Freezing & shipping charges Ijd on 33lbs ... ~, 3s 5j Other charges arc equal to \d per lb ... ... 81 Total charges ... ... 4 s 1J Nett price realised 13s 7jd. Price if sold to Buthwiek, 12s OLI, so that on his 331 b lambs, Mr Orr has netted Is 7pl more by sending to England and selling on his own account than ho would havo received had be sold in New Zealand. On his 291 b lambs, socqnd quality, he received:*— 29lbs at s|d per Jb 12s 8j Value of skin, fat, etc. ... Is 10 Total, value ~, ... L|h Of All charges ~, ~, 3s 7i Nett price realised ~, 10s 10 Both wick’s price at Works 10s 0 Additional price received ... 10 jj We 1 ave not based our calculations on the highest price Mr Orr received for his second quality lambs, bad wo done so, tho difforeneo would have boon about 1 s 3d between the price Mr Orr would havo obtained in Now Zealand and shipping on bis own account to London. Taking his shipment as a whole, Mr Orr netted on an average about Is 3d per lamb more by sending them to England than be would havo done had ho sold at the Freezer, Wo shoifld ho pleased to hoar from otlior shippers how thoy fared with tho stock which thoy sent to England.