The Daily News. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 14,1903. THAT BUTTER SHIPMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 221, 14 October 1903, Page 2

The Daily News. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 14,1903. THAT BUTTER SHIPMENT.

I In our Monday's issue we published a (paragraph from the Patea paper, regarding a shipment of butter, which was used for the purpose of making I butter shippers believe there was soraeI thing very much wrong in connection with shipments of butter fro ; n New Plymouth, and that great advantages were to be gained by shipping by way of Patea. In fact our contempDvary headed the paragraph, part of which we republished, " A feather in the cap of Patea," and indu'ged in a consider able amount of self laudation, on the strength of the supposed breakdown of the New Plymouth service. We are sorry to hive to prick the pretty little bubble sect up, but the facts were so grossly misrepresented and showed so much ill nature towards New Ply mouth, that it is just as well to give the actual facts, so that those interested in butter being shipped under the best possible conditions can see there was no reason for the paragraph whatever. The facts are these, that Messrs Pearson and Rutter, being aDxious to catch the (Somerset with a email lot of some 50 to 100 boxes of buster, decided to catch the Tabpuna on tne Monday .-evening when she was running with the 'Frisco mail, , and wired the, secretary of the Freezing Works to send certain butter on if possible and they would take all risks. The butter was duly shipped and anived in Wellington early on Tuesday, and being a very small lot, not sent on for trns.sbipmenf in the usual way, was hnded on the wharf and was not transferred to the Somerset till Wednesday morning, when, as the natural result of lying in the wharf shed all night and part of Tuesday, the butter was defrosted, This was not, however, any fault of the Union Company, or of the Freezing Company. Had the butter been carried to Wellington in the freezing chamber of an ocean liner, and as hard as marble on being landed, it. would have been defrosted after lying in the wharf shed for the time it didj and the butter in the Mana about which such a song was inert* would

[have been in the same cfo.lition if treated the game wny. The wholn affair was due to some mismanagement at the Wellington end, due to "tie Takapuna arriving before her usual time, and arrangements not havk'g been msde for tending the button to the Somerset immediately on its arrival in Wellington. We may sa y th/it Mr Morg.ii), maonger of the Uf.ion S.S. Company m New Plymouth has received a telegram from the Wellington office, which bears out what we have stated above. While on the subject, we mav

say that the lates-. (btiou started is [thi.t the Coring, which wo mentioned I was having a cool chamber installed, wus only having her holds in,ukf*d. This ih not so. The Corinna is being thoroughly overhauled throughout, and bt sides her holds b.ing completely insulated, a very powerful nuw and upj to date refrigerator is being installed. The machine is already in Sydney, and will arrive in Dunedin ou the 20;b inst., when it will at once be placed on beard, the Oorinna is expected to take up the Upolu's run or. the ties!, trip buc one, leaving Dunedin cm the 2nd November, arriving in Now Plymouth on the Bth November. The Oorinna is a larger and fabter roat than the Upolu, and chould nice; the demand of the increasing tr.-idd.