SHIPMENT OF DAIRY PRODUCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7939, 30 September 1905, Page 2

SHIPMENT OF DAIRY PRODUCE

Competition Between Steamer Companies Bright Outlook for Dairy Prodncers (Per Press Association.) DUNEDLY, Sept. 19. Thc Daily Times, in 'its commercial columns, says there appears to be a likelihood of competition between the rival shipping companies for this season's dairy produce for the English market. A contract'has 'been arranged with the Slvaw, Savill and Albion and .New Zealand Shipping Companies by the National Dairy Associations * of'both Islands, providing for the carriage of butter at live-eighths of a penny per pound, and cheese st a halfpenny. A fortnight ago it was announced tliat tho companies wou d likely 1 reduce the butter freight to a half-penny. Th* Federal, S'lvire, and' Houlder lines, with a direct] monthly service ta West of England ports, 'have itvlima-

ted their intention of carrying butter at three-eighths of a iwnny, nmt it is understood that they will Ink?, cheese at a 'lvalf-pcnny. With record prices, in some cases reaching lOj'd for butter and "ijd lor cheese, tlve dairy producers look forward to a profitable season.

Mr S. Turner, one of tlvo directors or the London . produce linn, Messrs Wilier ami Jtile.v, Ltd., who lias just returned to lVelH'ivg'tou from a business visit to Turnnaki,' speaks in high terms of praise of Vive organisation of New; Zlenl'aml's dairy industry (says the Post). Mr Turner is sanguine regarding the continued success of 'this colony's produce in.i Knglawl, where a great market is available, if the needs of various county tastes ■are catered for,