CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 184, 18 August 1903, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We ao not hold ourselves responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents.]

BUTTER EXPORT. TO THE EDITOR. Sin, - Our attention has been drawn to a pub'ifehed in your columns a short time sines', which W:S drawn up by the secretary of tha Tiranaki Producers Fieez'ng Oompmy, Moturoj, purporting to show (ha 1 : the factories shipping through Putei hud sustained a less by 60 doing, instead of a prtflav shown by the table prepared by us. The compiler of the first mentioned 'table is making a most misleiding statement when he states that the d fferencj in the rate of insurance from P.ttoa is tho came of a loss to tho .-.iiippais. Tha factoriei concerned are the parties who are b sfc able to juig t whe.hor they hive made a lo: r s or no', 'a*.d wo think ; h> accompanying btttr fro'ii JL- T. L. Joli, who '8 the b ggest private shipper on the cods", will ipaak i„r iis'!f, as the m tttnr of increased insurance when shipping from Pa'.ea to London ( he item on which the secretary has based his assuinp'i m of a loss) dons not exist in reality. Tnanking you in anticipation for iraspnssiug on j our valu ible spa:9. I am, etc j

F. W. Grainger. | Secretary of the West Onss Refiig'iritiog Company, Limited, Patea, | [Strange to say Mr Jo'i's letter,' whioh follows, reached us through ftfr Granger although addressed to us.— Fd] Dear Sir.—My attention has been' drawn to a table publish id in you* paper by Mr J. 8. MoKeltar which is entirely wrong and misteadiog. We as shippers cf butter to London from P.*t< a do not have to piy any more insurance than sh ppr rs from Moturoa The insu atica ij effected in London (')eing much cheaper than any colonial tffice) and there is not any st : pulatiou wha'evtr which port butter has to be sh : pped from. The same thing applies to Australia. Australian buyers have an opsn policy and do tot pay any mora insurance from Patea thin from Moturoa. By inserting the abov9 you will greatly oblige. —I am, etc., Thos. L Joll, [lf what Mr Jo 1 says is correct we would ad vis i him to say nothing about i% or if the f icts and conditi ms become known the piivilega he now ecj >ys may be withdrawn.—Ed.]